Waking Up Costs

YouTube: Site-Rite Instructional Video

Clark Venable — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:18:12 GMT

The AHRQ published Making Health Care Safer: A Critical Analysis of Patient Safety Practices in 2001. Chapter 21 deals with Ultrasound Guidance of Central Vein Catheterization. I thought I'd include a link to a YouTube video that shows how this device is used:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2sBcIkcQ1U

Although the device has advance considerably since then (see below), the images it provides are still pretty much the same.

I will often use the device to locate and mark an internal jugular vein before draping the patient as I find the use of the needle guide extremely cumbersome.

[Site-Rite]

NIDA: Drugs, Brains, and Behavior - The Science of Addiction

Clark Venable — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:37:15 GMT

The National Institute on Drug Abuse just published a booklet intended to help patients understand drug addiction titled The Science of Addiction.

"As a result of scientific research, we know that addiction is a disease that affects both brain and behavior. We have identified many of the biological and environmental factors and are beginning to search for the genetic variations that contribute to the development and progression of the disease. Scientists use this knowledge to develop effective prevention and treatment approaches that reduce the toll drug abuse takes on individuals, families, and communities."

Epocrates Online Free

Clark Venable — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:12:42 GMT

A reminder from The Palmdoc Chronicles that Epocrates Online Free is online and, well, free.

MMWR Available Via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Feeds

Clark Venable — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:47:49 GMT

"MMWR now offers RSS feeds, a free, automated method to receive all MMWR publications. Through RSS, new reports and publications are fed to your desktop or browser-based news reader when they are posted online. Headlines are presented in the RSS feeds, with links to the full reports and publications on the MMWR website. RSS feeds to MMWR publications are available at http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/rss/rss.html"

[CDC]

EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers

Clark Venable — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:49:46 GMT

Electronic Frontier Foundation: Legal Guide for Bloggers

"The goal here is to give you a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, to let you know you have rights, and to encourage you to blog freely with the knowledge that your legitimate speech is protected."

[Via O'Reilly Radar]