Recent developments in non-invasive cardiology -- Prasad et al. 329 (7479): 1386 -- BMJ
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Recent developments in non-invasive cardiology -- Prasad et al. 329 (7479): 1386 -- BMJ:
"Current clinical applications of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging
- General--measurement of cardiac volume and function; if echocardiography is unsatisfactory
- Great vessels--accurate sizing; detection of dissection, coarctation, stenosis; anomalous vessels
- Congenital heart disease--check for concordance of atrioventricular or ventriculoarterial connections; check for great vessels connections; assessment of conduits; assessment of complex anatomy
- Ischaemic heart disease--detection of regional wall motion abnormalities or infarction; assessment of viability
- Cardiomyopathy--identification of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy; detection of fibrosis or scarring; risk stratification; quantification of iron overload in thalassemia
- Left ventricular mass--accurate assessment in hypertension; assessment of response to therapy
- Valvular disease--quantification of regurgitation
- Pericardium--assessment of thickening
- Cardiac masses--characterisation of tissue; assessment of extent of tumour
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Public Service Announcement: Firefox 1.0 is out
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The mozilla foundation has released version 1.0 of Firefox--their small, speedy, secure, highly configurable web client that should take the place of Internet Explorer wherever possible. It's available for all platforms at http://www.getfirefox.com/ and it's FREE!
CME Watch
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CME Watch:
""Now there's a freebie, CME Watch v0.4, to help you keep tgrack of your CME activities!
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Introducing CME Watch - Track your CME Hours Easily on your Palm.
No more worrying about whether you've accumulated enough hours.
Use the summary function to add up all the CME hours!
Useful for : Physicians, Nurses, Respiratory Therapists....anyone who needs to attend and keep track of Continuing Medical Education Time!
Featuring:
- Automatically Adds and Summarizes Total CME Hours
- Ability to also track days for CME Allowance.
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[Via The Palmdoc Chronicles]
T-Line Tensymeter Instead of Arterial Lines
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I remember seeing this product at an anesthesiology meeting last year and thinking how great it would be for bariatric surgery (gastric bypass operations on the morbidly obese). It's an external device which, when strapped to the wrist and calibrated, can give a very accurate blood pressure reading. Depending on their upper arm morphology, a non-invasive blood pressure cuff may not work reliably in morbidly obese patients if the upper arm is cone-shaped. I used to start arterial lines on these patients, but this device, would be an alternative.
As almost all gastric bypass operations I give anesthesia for are done laparoscopically, this is less and less of an issue for me personally.
[Via EchoJournal]
How Technology Failed In Iraq
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MIT Technology Review: How Technology Failed In Iraq
" “Next to the fall of Baghdad,” says Marcone, “that bridge was the most important piece of terrain in the theater, and no one can tell me what’s defending it. Not how many troops, what units, what tanks, anything. There is zero information getting to me. Someone may have known above me, but the information didn’t get to me on the ground.” Marcone’s men were ambushed repeatedly on the approach to the bridge. But the scale of the intelligence deficit was clear after Marcone took the bridge on April 2." "
