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Chicago Tribune
Responding to a 911 call for a gunshot victim, Chicago police Officer David Watson followed a trail of blood into an apartment and found a teenager with blood streaming from a leg wound. Using training he received as a Marine, Watson took the belt from the young man’s pants and wrapped it around his thigh. The officer placed a stick under the belt to tighten it by twisting, and his partner helped stem the blood by pressing down on the wound until paramedics arrived.
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Yale School of Public Health
Every 40 seconds someone in the United States suffers a heart attack — also known as an acute myocardial infarction – making heart disease the No. 1 killer in America.
And whether a person lives or dies may depend on the hospital at which they are treated. According to a new Yale School of Public Health study, not only can a hospital change its organizational culture for the better, but such improvement allows more patients to survive heart attacks.
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The Costa Rica News
Artificial Intelligence begins to be used and become an advanced assistant in hospitals and medical universities in Costa Rica for patients’ care and training of medical students. It is also resorting to last generation androids and augmented reality. In the case of AI, for example, with an X-ray, computerized tomography, magnetic resonance imaging or an ultrasound test, the system’s algorithm recreates the image in 3-D form.
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The New York Times
“Research your symptoms,” says Eve Muller, a Los Angeles-based actress who has been working in medical schools as a simulated patient since 1990. Bodies manifest ailments in recognizable patterns that medical professionals are trained to observe and diagnose. It is not enough to say your belly hurts; exactly where and how does it hurt? Stomach pain could be food poisoning, an ectopic pregnancy, pelvic inflammatory disease, appendicitis, twisted ovarian tubes or something else entirely.
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Scott E. Rupp
Healthcare has had a tremendous year for job growth. Last year was strong, too, and so was 2015.
How good has it been? The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that there were about 11.7 million healthcare jobs in the U.S. in May 2014. Within two years, that number had jumped to 12.4 million through May 2016.
Well, for those in healthcare looking for new opportunities and those who hope to join the sector in the near term, there's likely going to be plenty of opportunities ahead.
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Futurism
Earlier this year, Microsoft launched Healthcare NExT, a new initiative that aims to bring together artificial intelligence, health research and the expertise of its industry partners in order to provide people with the means to live healthier lives and cure deadly disease. In a blog post detailing the initiative, Microsoft noted how few other industries have the problems as complex as that of healthcare, though the company believes it can make headway by incorporating new innovative technology.
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HealthDay News via U.S. News & World Report
U.S. hospitals have been tackling increasingly serious injuries in the gunshot victims they treat, a 20-year review reports.
"The severity of hospitalized firearm injuries [has] increased significantly," said researcher Bindu Kalesan, amounting to what she described as "a significantly elevated cumulative probability of death and disability from firearm injury." That proved to be the case among victims of the Oct. 1 Las Vegas shooting, which left at least 58 people dead and about 500 injured, many severely.
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Tallahassee Democrat
Healthcare providers often ask themselves, “How can I give my patient the best treatment possible?” In geriatrics, that’s a question best answered by a team.
In early October, more than 400 students from four healthcare disciplines experienced that teamwork firsthand as they swarmed the halls of the College of Medicine’s Clinical Learning Center. Florida’s growing population of older adults is creating an urgent need for geriatric care.
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HealthDay News via Medical Xpress
Complaining of burnout and job dissatisfaction, many U.S. doctors plan to reduce their work hours or leave medicine altogether, a new study reveals. "Our findings have profound implications for health care organizations," according to the researchers from the American Medical Association, the Mayo Clinic and Stanford University. The study found that about 1 in 5 doctors intends to reduce work hours in the next year.
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The Morning Sun
An active shooter drill at Pittsburg State University Saturday was unfortunately timely, with news over the weekend of a shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, in which at least 26 people were killed and 20 other wounded.
The active shooter drill at Pittsburg State University prepared emergency responders, law enforcement, two area hospitals and PSU nursing students for an active shooter emergency, should one happen.
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Journal of Emergency Medical Services
The measurement of patient temperature is, and has been, throughout the history of modern medicine, one of the four core physiological measurements that we collectively call "vital signs."
Over the past decade we've added the measurement of oxygen saturation as the fifth vital sign and hope that in the near future we'll add end-tidal carbon dioxide measurement as the sixth vital sign.
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