Drive-Thru Clinic, Caring for Patients from the Car
Uncategorized March 23rd, 2010
restaurant or eating place that provides the drive-thru may have many. But what about the drive-thru clinic that can treat patients only from the car?
Many people who choose to order food drive-thru for some reason do not have the time or just lazy out of the car. But the drive-thru clinic is being planned researchers are more intended to help treat patients more quickly and effectively.
Initial ideas drive-thru clinic that triggered by researchers from Stanford University was intended to address pandemic influenza, particularly cases of swine flu (H1N1) is now being spread. To handle these cases, the speed and accuracy of patient treatment is urgently needed.
For that, researchers try to test the effectiveness of the clinical scenario by creating a drive-thru clinic. A garage or room to place medical clinic built, paramedical staff, patients and all the medical equipment to treat patients had available. The whole scenario is described in The Annals of Emergency Medicine.
In this scenario, the patient was taken to a garage which has three stations to handle the patient. The first station serves as the registry. The second station serves as the checkpoint on the spot. The third station served as a patient who must receive more treatment and should be out of the car.
Emergency medical equipment was available in the garage. Sister will do screening on patients to determine his physical condition. If detected an unstable situation, the patient will be directed straight into the path of the drive-through clinic. Where patients can get medicines and treatment directly.
Meanwhile, if the patient is detected ill and needed medical treatment, they were immediately taken to the emergency. Results from this study shows, doctors who participate in clinical trials of this drive-thru were able to identify and treat patients accurately up to 95 percent.
The garage is used as a drive-thru clinic had already tested the level of carbon emissions and expressed monoksidanya safe, both for medical staff and patients. Another positive outcome of this study is the average patient (which does not require more) can be handled by the medical team in just 26 minutes.
As quoted from Healthbolt, Friday (28/1/2010), temperature and facilities designed in a drive-thru clinic that would be made in such a way that patients feel comfortable.
The existence of a drive-thru clinic is expected to help speed up the handling of patients in a pandemic situation or other emergency situations
Fight the Obesity With First Lady
Weight Loss March 23rd, 2010
public officials must be examples of a healthy lifestyle. That’s what made the U.S. superpower that uses the U.S. first lady Michelle Obama for a campaign against obesity.
Obesity has made the country spend billions of dollars. Obesity has become epidemic, not only adult children begin to get symptoms.
Obama administration was determined to reduce the causes of obesity in children, and find out what can be done by the people at home, school and work place to prevent this obesity epidemic.
“The number of Americans who have to struggle with her weight so that no health risk conditions associated with being overweight is still too high,” said Michelle Obama, as quoted by Reuters on Friday (29/1/2010).
Recommendations can be given to prevent obesity starts with eating more fruits and vegetables, as well as improve the quality of physical education at various schools so that children become more active.
Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius Obama revealed that the government has invested U.S. $ 650 million in health and other programs aimed at preventing obesity and quit smoking programs.
In addition, Obama also create a white building parks for the children of local schools. Given that the solution to prevent the obesity epidemic can not come from government alone, each person must be willing to engage in a campaign to avoid a crisis in public health.
“This will not be easy and can not happen overnight. And it’s also not going to be a simple thing, although using the first woman in the U.S. as a priority,” Obama said in his speech at the recreation center in Alexandria, outside Washington.
Given data showed two-thirds of U.S. adults and one in three children overweight and obesity. These conditions increase the health risks such as diabetes, heart disease and other chronic diseases.
“The United States must spend nearly U.S. $ 150 million related to the problem of obesity and its complications as well as two-fold higher than in 1998. This could make us as a nation that is not healthy,” Sebelius said.
Hip Heart, Sports Heart Start Young
Fitness March 23rd, 2010
For those of you who want to be healthy but still fun, there is now a new sport that combines the style of hip hop style of young people with a heart-healthy exercise. Exercise called ‘Hip-Heart’ was deliberately created to prevent young children exposed to the risk of heart disease and other cardiovascular disease.
“The focus of prevention of heart disease is now aimed at young people, because in the age group of healthy lifestyles remajalah or unhealthy are usually formed. The youth now are smoking more, not eating properly, lack of exercise and more sit or play the computer,” said Laksmiati A. Hanafi, head of Indonesian Heart Foundation in the Pan Asian seminar held Cepheus Study in Gren Melia Hotel, Jakarta, Monday (16/11/2009).
Sports ‘Hip-Heart’ itself is now often found in schools as a form of extracurricular activities outside. “We want more healthy teenagers with more moving and doing sports or exercise. But because gymnastics is usually boring, so we made the movements taken from the hip-hop style that later adapted by scholars with a heart-healthy move,” Laksmiawati said.
Today, sports ‘Hip-Heart’ are mostly found in schools in Jakarta. “In Jakarta alone, there are 40 to 50 schools that have implemented this sport, one in the school of Al-Izhar Pondok Labu. In the future we want menyosialisasikannya to various areas, such as Surabaya, Makassar and others,” he explained.
According to Laksmiati, heart disease has now spread to many young people, particularly women. “In the past, myth that heart disease is a male disease because his habits are less healthy than women. But now, the trend globally is a disease of women. Perhaps because women today are smoking more, drinking alcohol, and stress due to job as a career woman, “said Laksmiati.
While Susan Bachtiar which is the icon of the Indonesian Heart Foundation said, he believes that the key to preventing heart disease is to apply a healthy diet and exercise routine.
“I began to realize and actually implementing a healthy lifestyle since the age of 30 years. I exercise almost an hour every day and eat 5 times a day. But I only eat rice once, it was brown rice,” says the woman who still looks beautiful and fresh in his old age was 36 years.
“This morning I only drink milk, eat cookies 10 hours, 1 hour eating rice and side dishes, 4 hours snacking fruit or biscuits again and that night I banyakin fruit and drink milk again. To exercise, generally one hour every day of my fitness and weekends combined with yoga, “said Susan.
By running such a diet, she admitted her blood cholesterol became more healthy and maintained normal body stay fit and the risk of heart disease went away. Dr Djoko Maryono, SpPD, SpJP, FIHA, PHASE Medistra hospital, Jakarta who attended the seminar also added, “For a young child to eat the fish multiply and stay away from salty foods like chiki-chikian,” he advised.
IPhone Applications Remove Acne When Called
Acne March 16th, 2010
a special application developed for the iPhone is claimed to remove wrinkles and acne on the face, while users talk on the phone. How?.
Dr Greg Pearson who developed this application using AcneApp called 420 nanometer blue light and red light of 550 nanometers to help kill bacteria menyburkan acne and collagen growth. Applications for USD1, 99 works on the skin when users iPhone or iPod Touch on the phone.
But Pearson admitted not sure how effective the positive impact gained exposure to the skin when exposed to blue light and red of this application.
“It takes a clinical study further before I can determine how effective its impact on the skin,” said Pearson, as quoted by the Daily Mail, Tuesday (9/2/2010).
But Pearson was very impressed with the concept that allows one skin care acne and wrinkles while phoning.
Meanwhile, a dermatologist from New York Macrene Dr. Alexiades-Armenakas expressed doubt on the performance AcneApp.
“In this study we did, the results mentioned both red and blue light has the effect of low efficacy against acne skin care,” he said.
He also reminded the possibility of negative effects of ultraviolet light when using the iPhone or iPod Touch.
Breastfeeding is Effective to Burning Fat
Weight Loss March 16th, 2010
Cincinnati, young mothers who have children choose a new nursing techniques to lose weight. Researchers found breast-feeding activity can indeed effectively lose weight because it can burn more than 500 calories.
Mothers who had just given birth and are breastfeeding may not be assumed that they burn more calories than women who went to the gym.
“If breastfeeding is routine for 6 months, likely will thin more quickly after giving birth,” said Karen Wosje, professor pedriatik of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center as reported by Chicagotribune, Tuesday (19/1/2010).
However, not all postpartum women can get slim body with diet feeding.
“Every day my breast pump to get milk to be thin after giving birth. In fact I have 2 refrigerators to store my milk supply, but my weight did not fall-down, too,” said one woman.
The problem is, the more milk produced, the higher the nursing mother of appetite. That’s because production of the hormone prolactin, which stimulates appetite. In addition, stress factors and the lack of activity could also inhibit the effectiveness of the diet feeding.
For that, which must be done is to multiply the activity. “You can not just rely on breastfeeding to be thin. Without doing any other activity, it was useless.’s Diet feeding can burn calories, but many other factors that influence,” said Professor Karen.
Diet proved effective breastfeeding mothers who are nursing. Therefore, some researchers were inspired to apply these techniques in women who do not breastfeed.
“As long as the same principles and technique, we suspect feed diet can also be useful for helping women who are overweight. But need further study to prove it,” said Prof. Karen.
