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by tgokh 9y ago
Not the OP, but having worked on the EMS side of a fire department, I can give some insight (though my department was much smaller than OP's): 1) Usually each fire engine is staffed with 3-5 firefighters. A minimum of four is really id
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by tgokh 9y ago
I believe the apps only pull whatever information is in the barcode on the back of the idea - only law enforcement can actually check the ID against the DMV database. I scanned the 2-D barcode on my license using a generic barcode reader on
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Starbucks Button: A button to order your favorite drink at the closest Starbucks(ryanpickren.com)
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by tgokh 10y ago
A Holter is essentially an EKG that's left on for a longer period of time. If a patient is coming in with chest pain and your want to evaluate for a heart attack, you really just need a single EKG (and ideally, an older EKG to compare
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by tgokh 10y ago
You're spot on with your previous post, but just wanted to add a note to anyone reading that if you've been having intermittent chest pain or discomfort for weeks/months, it still could be a heart problem (or reflux or a host
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by tgokh 10y ago
Cool product -- especially like the idea of medication reminders in the watch. Is the silver thing on the face of the watch the second electrode for your EKG?
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by tgokh 10y ago
My undergrad degree's in biomedical engineering, and I've been a self-taught coder since middle school. I'm currently pursing my PhD in engineering in addition to my medical degree, and working on using computational simulati
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by tgokh 10y ago
There are products like AliveCor's Kardia on the market. The issue is that it's difficult even for a physician to interpret EKGs, and automated interpretation has proven quite challenging. There's been a lot of progress in de
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by tgokh 10y ago
It's probably worth going to a doctor to get an EKG and get checked out. If your heart beat is irregular (either the time between beats seems random, or you have pauses or early beats), it could be a sign of an electrical disturbance i
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by tgokh 10y ago
While a low reading on one of those meters (coupled with symptoms) is likely a good sign that something's wrong, I think it's quite possible for the pulse oximeter to read normal even if you're having a heart attack. There&#x
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by tgokh 10y ago
I'm assuming you mean people can be having an MI, or experiencing angina for quite some time, not actually in cardiac arrest
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by tgokh 10y ago
A lot of people equate a heart attack with cardiac arrest, where the heart actually stops pumping blood and the patient suddenly collapses, but in reality, a heart attack refers to a complete blockage of blood flow to part of the heart, and
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by tgokh 10y ago
Definitely agree with this. Figure1 is great for focused learning, but Twitter has allowed me to hear about random clinical pearls, interesting cases, the latest research, and the ensuing discussions between active clinicians.
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by tgokh 10y ago
Depends on what content you're looking for, but off the top of my head, here's a variety of type of EM-related people/accounts. The first two are teaching resources. The rest are active (both clinically and on Twitter) clinic
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by tgokh 10y ago
It may not necessarily be the best option for the OP's daughter, but it is possible to do a PhD that uses data science as a tool rather than the focus. There's a lot of interesting work going on in academia using data science in a
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by tgokh 10y ago
This is a little sketch - if the question you asked didn't required any additional work (specialized physical exam, detailed history taking, additional medical decision making), billing for it as a separate evaluation and management vi
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by tgokh 10y ago
Except the problem is that in the car situation you're the one paying for the car, not a third party. This is more like your car getting totaled, and your auto insurance company saying "you go pick a reasonable new car, we'll
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by tgokh 10y ago
Anything that turns the "preventative" visit into an "evaluation and management" visit will often result in additional charge since they have different billing codes. Preventative visits are usually free under the ACA, b
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by tgokh 10y ago
Sounds like (from the Italian article) she had already had an unsuccessful (or attempted?) kidney transplant in 2014. The patient appears to have some sort of vascular as well as immunological issues (again, my broken translation from the I
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by tgokh 10y ago
And they'll be introducing a new Rs. 2000 note, worth about $30
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by tgokh 10y ago
I'm a huge fan of the rest of this Coursera specialization (or was, until they started charging to submit assignments for it mid-specialization, but I digress...) Carlos and Emily do a great job diving deeper than most other online cou
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by tgokh 10y ago
I don't know if there's any restaurants in the park proper, but the new Park redevelopment plans calls for building retail, dining and apparently residential space in the Park http://www.rtp.org/about-us/park-
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by tgokh 10y ago
London vs City of London: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqs5ohhass_QScZFYoQX-...
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by tgokh 10y ago
Woah, I've never seen this before -- thanks for sharing!
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by tgokh 10y ago
Are you in the US? The FAA has a strict set of minimum medical equipment for each flight with a flight attendant. [1][2]. European regulations require a lot more but don't actually apply to most flights in Europe as they only require a
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by tgokh 10y ago
The medical kits in the US are usually quite extensive [1] (and even more so on long-haul flights into Europe), and I've never heard of someone running into a half-stocked one before. Often airlines will carry more than one so that if
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by tgokh 10y ago
While it may be far from ideal, I know a lot of academics who would be willing to pay a dollar for access to an article their library doesn't have access to instead of going to Sci-Hub, but when the only option now is to pay $40 per ar
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by tgokh 10y ago
Thank you, Bayh-Dole Act ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh–Dole_Act
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by tgokh 10y ago
The former is extremely common in medical students: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_students%27_disease
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by tgokh 10y ago
I went to a bar/restaurant in Utah recently that scanned everyone's IDs at the entrance - their little handheld reader pulled my name and computed my age from the barcode on the back of my NC DL. They said it works for most states

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