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by Cass 7y ago
If it comes to that, you can also share a conventional ventilator between two people. It's an ugly hack, because you have to use the same settings on both patients, so it doesn't allow for the sort of precise control you want if y
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by Cass 7y ago
To add to this, looking at figure 4, why is their "average" heartbeat so messed up? That's not what a normal average heartbeat looks like. P is too flat, Q is too big, R is blunted, and there's an extra wave between S a
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by Cass 7y ago
As a doctor as opposed to an AI researcher, so many of the choices this study makes are baffling to me. First of all, why just one heartbeat? You never capture just one heartbeat on an ECG anyway, and "Is the next heartbeat identical t
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by Cass 7y ago
Cooking for cats is actually quite hard, and very easy to screw up. The kinds of meat humans usually eat don't contain everything your cat needs. Unless what you're cooking for them is actual mice, be very sure you know what you&#
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by Cass 7y ago
On the web, there's usually a ratio of readers/lurkers to commenters of somewhere between 100 to 1 and 1000 to 1. So if 30 people comment on this article, that means 300 to 3000 are reading it. That means your second degree connec
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by Cass 7y ago
If you want a fully qualified GP-track resident, there's probably no way to compress the learning process much further down than the four years of American med school. German med school takes six and a half years to teach the same amou
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by Cass 8y ago
I'm always baffled by the idea that we need to get people living in space for the human race to survive climate chance or other catastrophes. What do you think we could possibly do to the Earth that would make it less habitable than sp
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Portrait of a Campaign(idlewords.com)
14 points by Cass 8y ago|0 comments
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by Cass 8y ago
It seems like this would be a trivial problem to solve. In the extremely unlikely case that some guest requests access to or deletion of their data in your physical guestbook, just ask for the approximate date of their stay, look through th
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Cryptocurrency and the Blockchain: What Is This Stuff?(shamusyoung.com)
2 points by Cass 9y ago|0 comments
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Paediatric Consultants on the Events Surrounding the Case Against Dr Bawa-Garba(54000doctors.org)
1 points by Cass 9y ago|0 comments
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by Cass 9y ago
I'd never realized this, even after a year of living as a pedestrian in the UK, but this finally answers my question of why the pedestrian lights take so freaking LONG to turn green here. It may be intended as a pedestrian-friendly mea
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by Cass 9y ago
The common cold is caused by a virus, not by bacteria. You can get the bacteria that cause Legionnaire's disease building up in the fluid in air conditioning units and then getting vaporized into the air, but I don't see how spray
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by Cass 9y ago
Research/academia can certainly be kind of screwed up, but I doubt that any ethics board in a developed country is going to okay a study that involves tricking people into a spinal tap. And all the consent forms patients are asked t
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by Cass 10y ago
An EKG machine cannot tell you whether you're fine or not. Not all heart attacks show up on EKGs, which is why the hospital will do a blood test for Troponin, too. A home Trop test would do what you want, but it can take several hou
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by Cass 10y ago
As far as I'm aware, computers are better at diagnosing a very small and very specific subset of diagnoses. If I'm wrong about this and there's a computer out there who can diagnose patients with better or equal accuracy than
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by Cass 10y ago
Glucose, insulin and potassium are already readily available on every ambulance, so all you'd need is a clinical trial proving that the mixture is effective and safe to use for heart attack patients. The costs of a clinical trial seem
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by Cass 11y ago
If you're taking Warfarin, you have to get your INR checked every two to three weeks. It's really not practical to do that at three different labs every time. Also, this isn't some exotic edge case that only applies to a few
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by Cass 11y ago
Oh hell yes. The main one peaople ask me about right now is Marcumar/Warfarin, a drug many patients with atrial fibrillation have to take for the entire rest of their life, despite the fact that it has awful side effects and requires t
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by Cass 11y ago
All these "back to the dark ages" worst case scenarios seem to assume that we'll wake up one day and realize that every single one of our antibiotics has stopped working on anything. That's not how it's going to hap
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by Cass 11y ago
A coworker who worked as a doctor in Afghanistan and Myanmar for about a year told me that a third of the medications they had in the hospital, and two thirds of the medications you could purchase in pharmacies contained no active ingredien
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by Cass 11y ago
Having been in quite a few mildly scary crowd situations at concerts, "elbows akimbo" seems like the worst possible idea. The main force will be coming from the front and back, but your elbows will be out to the side, so people in
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by Cass 11y ago
Wait, what? In Germany, you're expected to tip your waiter ten percent for good service. Not tipping is only done for terrible service. Including in rural and traditional areas. Sourse: German in a rural and traditional area
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by Cass 11y ago
Parkinson's long list of possible symptoms includes both movement disorders and dementia.
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by Cass 11y ago
"Later that evening, while walking home, she noticed bilateral foot drop and foot numbness, which caused her to trip and fall. She spent several hours lying on the ground before she was found." This last sentence raises a lot of q
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by Cass 11y ago
The pages will almost certainly be based on word count. I believe the standard is 150 words/page. Word count is probably the best measure to base this on, because time spent reading is totally arbitrary and depends on external variable
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by Cass 11y ago
You generally want to wait six weeks after a heart attack before implanting an AICD, because the patient's heart frequently recovers to the point where an AICD won't be necessary at all. The LifeVest is supposed to bridge those si
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by Cass 11y ago
We don't put the patient's name on the EKG, so it's not directly identifiable, and we get their consent before submitting (if they're in any state to consent, which often they aren't), but I'm sure it does viol
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by Cass 11y ago
For an unstable patient, our process is much the same - the EMTs will put in the IVs, and we'll bypass the ER to proceed directly to the cath lab. For stable patients, the EMTs will prioritize getting them to the hospital as fast as po
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by Cass 11y ago
A month ago, a friend who'd worked as a doctor in South Africa for decades was interning with me to learn about the procedures in our German ER. I remember the first time a patient with a heart attack came in while she was there, and t

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