January 2012
12 posts
The Tangential: Things To Do With Your Drugs Other... →
thetangential:
Want to quit using drugs but not sure what to do with all those drugs? Here are some ideas: • Use them as inspiration for a collection of “single experience fragrances,” a la the early days of Demeter cologne. They haven’t released “Weed Jar” or “Ground Adderall,” last time I checked.
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Atrial Fibrillation: The Causes
nocturnalnurse:
Remember RHEUMATICS!
The Causes of A-Fib are:
Rheumatic Heart Disease
HCM, Hypertensive heart disease, Holiday Heart Syndrome, Heart failure
Embolism (Pulmonary), Ebstein’s Anomaly, Endocrinopathies
Unknown cause
Myocarditis, MI, Mitral Valve Disease
ASD, Alcohol
Toxicity from stimulants, Theophylline, Thyroid Disease
Infections and inflammations of Pericardium, IE...
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ER in upcountry
It is more of OT medical services, mostly non-emergency cases.
There is indeed some more-or-less emergency like acute MI.
At this time, I’ve got a lot of chance to do traumatic wound stitching. — There are alcoholics and accident victims with wounds like head injury…
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Calculating sample size in community research →
I haven’t read this topic thoroughly yet, but I have been guided to use sample size calculation by Krejcie and Morgan’s work.
In short, I am working in a village of about 300 people, so I need to collect at least 169 samples.
In short,
100 — sample 80
400 — sample 198
1 400 — sample 302
10 000 — sample 384
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Community Medicine training for 4th year
I am here to do research on a topic, Flood. Surely, Thailand was recently afflicted by massive flood, and there are so many casualty.
However, working at a community hospital is really free and people are friendly; however, I can smell too much money use…
Well, many countrymen do regard doctors as godlike.
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