We welcome you to come and read through our latest, Dec/Jan, edition of Modern Medicine.
This month we have a jam packed edition for you. Our features this month include;Ethics, Contraception, Pain and many more.
We encourage all of our readers to complete the CPD questionnaire for this edition, this can be done on the answer-form included in the magazine, or on our website CPD system.
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Assessing and Managing IgE-mediated Food Allergies in Children
More than one-third of children with an IgE-mediated food allergy will react on their first known ingestion of a food. Exclusion diets should only be undertaken with specialist advice because they may inadvertently worsen the child’s situation. Foods already tolerated in the child’s diet should not be removed if a skin prick test or serum-specific immunoglobulin E to that food is positive but there are no clinical signs of allergy to that food. New evidence suggests that early introduction and regular ingestion of certain allergenic foods significantly reduces the risk of developing food allergy.
Modern Medicine – Dec/Jan 2019
Echinacea’s Dual Action in URIs
Common symptoms of upper respiratory infections (URIs), such as sore throat, cough, and inflammation, are often caused by bacteria, sometimes as a complication of viral infection. Extracts of Echinacea purpurea (Asteraceae) have been advocated traditionally for use by individuals suffering from these symptoms.
Modern Medicine – Dec/Jan 2019
Preserve Barrier Function in Atopic Dermatitis
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common eczematous skin disorder affecting 2-20% of the general population. AD is characterised by chronic cutaneous inflammation and dry skin with epidermal barrier dysfunction. Intense pruritus is the major and burdensome symptom of AD. Itch induced scratching appears to exacerbate skin inflammation by accelerating cellular damage in the lesional skin. Approximately 80% of AD patients exhibit elevated levels of serum IgE.
Modern Medicine – Dec/Jan 2019
Managing Patients after Implantation of a Cardiac Rhythm Management Device
Patients with cardiac rhythm management devices such as pacemakers and defibrillators are cared for jointly by GPs and cardiologists. GPs can manage issues such as wound care, bleeding and pain and provide guidance regarding work, travel and household appliance use. Early complications are best referred back to the interventional cardiologist; they include wound-related issues (active bleeding, infection, large haematoma), unusual postprocedural pain (pericardial or pleuritic pain) and noncardiac muscle twitching.
Modern Medicine – Dec/Jan 2019
Tapentadol’s Strong Analgesic Properties
Pain is a disorder that everyone experiences and is often difficult to treat. Current drug treatment options for management of pain include opioids, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and paracetamol. Tapentadol is a novel, next generation, centrally acting analgesic with dual mechanism of action that offers analgesic efficacy that is similar to that provided by a pure MOR agonist, but with an improved side-effect profile.
Modern Medicine – Dec/Jan 2019
An Updated Guide to Contraception Long-acting reversible methods
Long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) methods are highly acceptable and offer cost-effective, efficacious contraception. They are associated with a lower risk of unintended pregnancy than shorteracting contraceptive methods. The contraceptive implant and intrauterine contraceptives have similar high efficacies in both typical and perfect use with few absolute or relative contraindications and few serious risks associated with their use.
Modern Medicine – Dec/Jan 2019
It’s Hard for Doctors to Unlearn Things
Procedures live on even after they’ve been proved ineffective. It can lead to harms and wasted resources. Part of a doctor’s tool kit is learning new things, but also unlearning some things. The second part may be harder than the first.
Modern Medicine – Dec/Jan 2019
Protect Your Patients, Warm Them Correctly
The benefits of maintaining normothermia are well understood and form an important component of the perioperative process. However, with increasing pressure on hospitals to reduce costs and become more profitable, this treatment modality can take a backseat either because items such as forced air warming blankets are not reimbursed by medical funders or it forms part of the global fee for surgical procedures and is disregarded so as to cut costs.
Modern Medicine – Dec/Jan 2019
We welcome you to come and read through our latest, Oct/Nov, edition of Modern Medicine.
This month we have a jam packed edition for you. Our features this month include; Oncology, Colon Cancer, Pain and many more.
We encourage all of our readers to complete the CPD questionnaire for this edition, this can be done on the answer-form included in the magazine, or on our website CPD system.
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