Brain-Computer-Interface Enables Coma Patients To Communicate (medicalnewstoday)
MediNewsDigest: The “Coma” is much less inert state than thought. CLICK HERE for link to medicalnewstoday.
CLICK HERE for link to wikipedia on the major tool to assess the depth of the coma.note the scale was created in 1974! outdated? Scale is based of responses to unassisted stimuli…..What would happen to the scale if bioelectronics devices were put in the evaluation?
MediNewsDigest: This is a link to an interesting website “coma care” who purports to work for the rights of patients in coma. Note that it is based in South Africa
MediNewsDigest: see our post of Feb 5, 2010: “Vegetative State and Brain Function: COVERT COGNITION IN THE PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE (sciencedirect)”
Categories: Uncategorized, brain, coma states, neuroscience Tags: Brain, CareResourceGuide, Coma, Communicate, Computer, Enable, Interface, medicalnewstoday, medinewsdigest, Patients
Depression Medication: Patients Report 20 Times More Side Effects Than Recorded in Charts, Study Finds (sciencedaily)
SJCRG: What does that tell you about the system and the FDA ? Biased towards Big Pharma?
Categories: Psychiatry, advocacy, depression, neuroscience, stress Tags: 20 times, CareResourceGuide, depression, medications, More Side Effects, Patients, Recorded in Charts, report, ScienceDaily, sjcrg, study, Than
Categories: Multiple Sclerosis, Paralysis, Seniors, aging, elderly, paraplegic, physical therapy, quadraplegic, stroke, wheelchairs, wounded veterans Tags: biomechanical, CareResourceGuide, Exercise, motor function, Multiple Sclerosis, nervous, Parkinson's disease, Patients, rehabilitation, sciencedirect, sjcrg, Stimulation, stroke, Vibration
Comparison of Homebound Chronic Fatigue Syndrome [ CFS] Patients with other CFS patients (sciencedirect)
SJCRG: The homebound group differs substantially from the others. They need specific treatments.
Categories: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Fibromyalgia, Uncategorized Tags: CareResourceGuide, CFS, CFS patients, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, comparison, Homebound, other, Patients, sciencedirect, sjcrg
Categories: HHS, Homecare, Patient Care, Uncategorized, aging, cancer, elderly, immunology, leukemia Tags: hematological, HHS, Home, management, option, Patients, sciencedirect, sjcrg, viable
Categories: Drugs and Devices, Patient Care, aging, care quality, elderly, hospice, nursing home, vegetative state Tags: CareResourceGuide, Long-term, Mechanical, Patients, sciencedirect, sjcrg, survey, Tracheostomy, ventilation
Chronic Pain: Treating the immune system of patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CPRS) leads to a significant reduction in pain.
SJCRG: Relation Immune System and pain? Not fully understood, but seems to work….
Categories: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CPRS), immunology Tags: CareResourceGuide, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, CPRS, immune system, pain, Patients, reduction, ScienceDaily, sjcrg, Treating
The efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia in patients with chronic pain (sciencedirect)
SJCRG: CBT might be worth considering against insomnia, pills have so many side effects…
Categories: Chronic Pain, neuroscience, pain, sleep problems Tags: CareResourceGuide, CBT, chronic pain, cognitive-behavioral therapy, insomnia, pain, Patients, sciencedirect, sjcrg
Treatment of Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in non-HIV immunocompromised patients
SJCRG: Pneumonia for Immunocompromized patients is even more serious. That means cancer patients etc. This an example of what can be done for such patients.
SJCRG: Wiki definition of Pneumocystis pneumonia
Categories: Uncategorized, cancer, infection Tags: cochrane, immunocompromised, non-HIV, Patients, PCP, Pneumocystis, pneumonia, sjcrg, treatment
Sleep disorders in patients with multiple sclerosis (sciencedirect)
SJCRG: MS patients your insomia is documented…Don’t know if it helps
Categories: Multiple Sclerosis, Uncategorized, autoimmune diseases, insomnia, neuroscience Tags: Disorders, multiple, Patients, sciencedirect, sclerosis, sjcrg, sleep
