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Telemedicine Usage Exploding–eICU, daVinci Robotic Surgery

August 6, 2009

James Geiger M.D.–

Get Healthier using your Mobile Smart Phone

Smart phones are evolving rapidly. One day there may well be an specialized application (APS) for everything. Some of the health care oriented APS, include Mobile Phone Click Diagnostics offering a wide variety of consultations services and Airstrip OB which can monitor fetal heart rate and maternal contractions. Major medical concerns can be facilitated, like medication compliance of infectious disease patients with programs like Stop TB. Patients can be given a cell … Continue Reading

Happy Hungry and Horny: Some benefits of Propofol

July 7, 2009

Happy  Hungry and Horny : Some benefits of Propofol.

Anesthesiologists know that propofol has many benefits including the fact that it is practically an ideal anesthetic agent. If Micheal Jackson had been given propofol he would have realized how wonderful an anesthetic agent propofol is as a sleep aide in spite of the fact that is not an FDA approved usage of the drug. Propofol does not induce proper restful REM sleep. The three H’s are very unique benefits that an anesthesia patient can identify and enjoy. Propofol is a white emulsion (1 … Continue Reading

Anesthesiologist Monitors with Vigilance and uses Vigilance WordPress theme

March 22, 2009

Anesthesiologist Monitors with Vigilance and uses Vigilance WordPress theme

Monitor with Vigilance
The motto of anesthesia practice is vigilance. Anesthesiologists
and critical care doctors use the “rule of trends” in acute care medicine settings
to assess and measure response to treatment. Illness can be measured suddenly
in seconds or over decades, as in persistently poor diet leading to malnutrition
and obesity. The trend is not your friend when it comes to obesity in the
United States. In the last thirty years, in every state, the percentage of the
population defined as overweight to morbidly obese has increased. That time
span correlates directly with the massive rise and commercialization of … Continue Reading