ICD-10

What do you know about ICD-10?

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The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision (known as “ICD-10″) is a medical classification list for the coding of diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases, as maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO).^[1] The code set allows more than 14,400 different codes and permits the tracking of many new diagnoses. Using optional subclassifications, the codes can be expanded to over 16,000 codes. Using codes that are meant to be reported in a separate data field, the level of detail that is reported by ICD can be further increased, using a simplified multiaxial approach.

The WHO provides detailed information about ICD online, and makes available a set of materials online, such as an ICD-10 online browser,^[2]ICD-10 Training, ICD-10 online training,^[3] ICD-10 online training support,^[4] and study guide materials for download.

Falsification in Ayurveda

Now a day the entire AYUSH is against the malpractices made by Ayurvedic Medical College for their sustenance. Even though AYUSH is serious, managements are following different methods to exhibit their faculties on muster, maintain the Hospital records and inputs. The different methods include generating visiting faculty or on paper faculty. The student ratio of beds as per the CCIM is 1:3. As many Ayurveda colleges are far away from the community residences or could not generate the faith (especially in emergencies), the patients are deviating to the other opportunities to help themselves. To run the show is the only alternative to get the permissions for successive academic year. So, the managements are using alternative methods instead of locating the problem and solving in alternative systems. One of such method is – “Falsification Method”.

Fabrication, Falsification, Plagiarism, or other practices that seriously deviate from those that are commonly accepted in the community for proposing, conducting, or reporting for any permissions or statements or study. The “honest” error or difference in expression is caught by the authorities of permission.

What is Falsification?

• Alteration of data collected in the maintenance of hospital records, purchase records
• Omission/deletion/suppression of conflicting data without justification
• Back-dating in patient records to fit within the timeline as treatment provided
• Changing a patients age, address and disease in hospital data records

All these are happening not only in Ayurvedic Colleges even in the other systems also. There were so many News items in relation to this Falsification in all medical colleges.

How to stop Falsification?

There may be many methods to prevent a problem. Here one method I propose or bring in to the notice of the readers is, Inclusion of ID in Case sheet. It may be followed by authorities or not – but certainly is for my satisfaction. It is so simple and easy. The admitted patient should be identified properly with a Voter ID card or driving license number or PAN card or any other ID card number. There may be occasions where none of these are available with patient. In such a case- let theCollegeHospitalissue an ID card with photo.

Once this “valid ID number” is included in the case sheets of IPD, most of the Falsification is stopped in Medical Colleges.

Do you have any idea to stop Falsification? Start writing . . . .

Principles of Regenerative Medicine

Anthony Atala, “Principles of Regenerative Medicine, Second Edition” Publisher: Academic Press | 2010 | ISBN: 0123814227 | PDF | 1202 pages | 47.9 MB

Virtually any disease that results from malfunctioning, damaged, or failing tissues may be potentially cured through regenerative medicine therapies, by either regenerating the damaged tissues in vivo, or by growing the tissues and organs in vitro and implanting them into the patient. Principles of Regenerative Medicine discusses the latest advances in technology and medicine for replacing tissues and organs damaged by disease and of developing therapies for previously untreatable conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease, liver disease, and renal failure.  

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Medical Malpractice

Medical Malpractice: A Physician’s Sourcebook
Humana Press; 1 edition | September 24, 2004 | ISBN-10: 1588293890 | 328 pages | PDF | 2.26 MB

t is a good overview from many perspectives in the medical malpractice field. … this book will be very useful for residents and the early years of practice. It will also help any practicing anesthesiologist to get a very good overview of what’s going on with the very alarming increase in medical malpractice cases and awards as well as the attempts at tort reform that have been continuously blocked by the plaintiff’s bar and their supporters in Congress.

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Seven Wonders of Medicine

Karen Gunnison Ballen, “Seven Wonders of Medicine”
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT) | 2010 | ISBN 0761342397 | PDF | 80 pages | 12.7 MB

In every age, science and technology have advanced human civilization. From architecture to engineering, medicine to transportation, humans have invented extraordinary wonders. Over the centuries, new medicines and medical tools have cured and wiped out diseases. Medical technology has saved lives and has improved health for millions of people, increasing life expectancy for Americans from 49 years in 1900 to 77 years in 2000. In the twenty-first century, scientists continue developing new medical tools and techniques to treat cancer and other deadly diseases. In this book, we’ll explore seven wonders of medicine. These wonders include microscopes, which let doctors see the germs that cause disease. Other wonders are antibiotics, lifesaving drugs made from mold. We’ll learn how doctors are able to take a still-beating heart from one person and place it into another. And we’ll find out about nanomedicine, including tiny “robot doctors” that might one day travel inside the body. From the basic to the cutting edge, we’ll learn where medicine has been and where it’s headed.

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TORCH Syndrome

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TORCH Syndrome: Infection of a fetus by any of a group of infectious agents which have been transmitted from the mother through the placenta. The infections include toxoplasmosis, rubella, cytomegalovirus, herpes virus, hepatitis and syphilis. The severity and nature of symptoms is determined by the type of infection. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of TORCH Syndrome is available below.  Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia says .. The TORCH complex was originally considered to consist of four conditions,^[2] with the “TO” referring to “Toxoplasma”. The four-term form is still used in many modern references,^[3] and the capitalization “ToRCH” is sometimes used in these contexts.^[4] Alternatively, the “O” is redefined as “other”,^[5] and the acronym is spelled out as follows:

1. T – Toxoplasmosis / Toxoplasma gondii
2. O – Other infections (see below)
3. R – Rubella
4. C – Cytomegalovirus
5. H – Herpes simplex virus

The “other agents” included under O are Hepatitis B, Syphilis, Varicella-Zoster Virus, HIV, and Parvovirus B19.

The list of signs and symptoms mentioned in various sources for TORCH Syndrome includes the 18 symptoms listed below:

• Enlarged liver
• Enlarged spleen
• Chorioretinitis
• Fetal malformations
• Jaundice
• Low blood platelet level
• Central nervous system abnormalities
• Asymptomatic manifestations may occur later in life
• Brain infection
• Infection of membrane around brain
• Small head
• Heart malformations
• Cataracts
• Hearing loss
• Mental retardation
• Hemorrhagic skin spots
• Fetal death
• Bleeding diathesis
• more information…»

Maggot therapy

Maggot therapy research

A randomised controlled trial on maggot therapy (Larval therapy for leg ulcers (VenUS II): randomised controlled trial) was published in this week’s British Medical Journal. The researchers’ conclusion:

Larval therapy did not improve the rate of healing of sloughy or necrotic leg ulcers or reduce bacterial load compared with hydrogel but did significantly reduce the time to debridement and increase ulcer pain.

Seen in the BBC as this:

Maggots may not have the miracle healing properties that have been claimed, a UK study suggests.

Complementary Medicine For Dummies

Complementary Medicine For Dummies By Jacqueline Young
Publisher: For Dummies 2007 | 448 Pages | ISBN: 0470026251 | PDF | 3 MB
A comprehensive guide to what’s what and what works in complementary medicine, this expert guide cuts through the jargon and gives you the facts about the alternatives. Whether you are interested in maintaining your general well-being or relieving the symptoms of a specific complaint, this book outlines all of the therapies available to you – from acupuncture through healing foods to yoga and massage – and tells you what each treatment is most effective for, how to go about finding a practitioner and what to expect from a consultation.

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Global Public Health

Robert Beaglehole “Global Public Health: A New Era”
Oxford University Press | English | 2003-04-03 | ISBN: 0198515294 | 304 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB

Global Public Health: A New Era is a comprehensive account of the international state of public health, including an agenda for improving the practice of the discipline across the world. It addresses three major issues, presented in distinct sections: the changing global context for public health; the state of public health theory and practice in both developed and developing countries, and strategies for strengthening the practice of public health in the twenty-first century.
Part One surveys the complex old and new challenges facing public health practitioners, and then summarizes the state of health globally using new data based on measures of the Global Burden of Disease developed by the World Health Organization, and other groups, to better describe population health states and trends.
Part Two presents the first detailed review of the global state of public health. It analyzes the public health situation in all regions of the world. Six chapters cover Europe, North and Latin America, and Australia and New Zealand, including a new chapter focusing on the UK. Three chapters cover China, India, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The lessons from these chapters are surprisingly similar: the challenges are gerat; the public health workforce and infrastructure have long been neglected, and much needs to be done to reinvigorate the practice of public health. [download] [mirror]

Digital Medicine

Darrell M. West, Edward Alan Miller “Digital Medicine: Health Care in the Internet Era”
Brookings Institution Press | English | 2009-04-10 | ISBN: 0815702760 | 183 pages | PDF | 1 MB

Information technology has dramatically changed the way we live our lives in areas ranging from commerce and entertainment to voting. Now, policy advocates and government officials hope to bring the benefits of information technology to health care. Governments, hospitals, doctors, and pharmaceutical manufacturers have placed a tremendous amount of medical information, data, and services online in recent years. Many consumers can visit health department sites and compare performance data on health care providers. Some physicians encourage patients to use e-mail or web messaging as opposed to phone calls or in-office visits for simple medical issues. Increasingly, medical equipment and prescription drug manufacturers are making their products available online. Yet despite this growth in activity, the promise of e-health remains largely unfulfilled. “Digital Medicine” investigates the factors limiting the ability of digital technology to remake health care in the United States and around the world. What political, social, and ethical challenges are presented by online health care? How are racial, ethnic, and other disparities limiting the e-health revolution? How accessible are health-related Internet websites to the disabled, those at basic or below basic levels of literacy, or with limited English proficiency? Are there differences between websites sponsored by public, private and nonprofit organizations that limit technology utilization? How can we close the disparity gap and deal with conflicts of interest that contribute to distrust in the information presented? [download][mirror]

Global Health

“Encyclopedia of Global Health” ed. by Yawei Zhang
Sage Publications, Inc | 2008 | ISBN: 1412941865 | 2046 pages | PDF | 23 Mb
A general reference for topics related to health worlwide, this encyclopedia is ambitious in its scope, with entries for specific diseases and conditions, geographical areas, health issues, biographical information, and organizations related to world health policy. This book includes 1200 entries from “Abortion” to “Zoll. An alphabetical contents list is included in each volume. The thorough entries vary in length, and each one concludes with a bibliography and cross-references. [download][mirror]