Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology As A Diagnostic Tool

By Jeremy P Stanfords
Endovascular surgical neuroradiology is also known as both neurointerventional surgery and interventional neuroradiology. This highly specific branch of surgery encompasses those procedures used to diagnose cerebrovascular disorders - disorders of the blood vessels in/supplying the brain - from the inside of the blood vessels themselves.

Hospitals and clinics that treat cerebrovascular disorders through the use of endovascular surgical neuroradiology are located throughout the country even though these procedures are extremely specialized and require specially trained physicians to carry them out. In order to provide education opportunities to surgeons who are interested in specializing in this field, at least one chain of clinics has established an endovascular surgical neuroradiology fellowship, which has significantly furthered research into endovascular surgical neuroradiology in Florida, Ohio, Canada and even as far away as Abu Dhabi.

Physicians who enter the endovascular surgical neuroradiology (ESN) fellowship will receive training in not only the clinical diagnosis of endovascular disorders through the interpretation of x-ray imaging but also in the level and type of care needed for patients who exhibit endovascular symptoms. They will also learn how to interpret their test results and plan their treatments in conjunction with other, related, departments including neuropathology, ophthalmology and otolaryngology.

ESN has only been around for a fairly short time and was pioneered by Russian surgeon, Fedor Serbinenko, in 1979 during his research into how to diagnose and treat brain aneurysms. This branch of surgery has, however, made great strides in a relatively short amount of time and now uses cutting edge microcatheter technology to navigate, explore and map the body's blood vessels in order to determine the cause of whatever cerebrovascular disorder or disease a patient is experiencing.

ESN is used to diagnose a number of different cranial cerebrovascular conditions including, among others, brain aneurysms, brain arteriovenous malformations, brain artery blockages caused by intracranial atherosclerosis and brain tumors. Further disorders that benefit from the use of ESN techniques, which see physicians insert microcatheters into blood vessels in the groin to explore the vessels leading to the brain with the help of the latest x-ray technology, include dural arteriovenous fistulae, malformations of the Vein of Galen, carotid artery disease and even the simple nosebleed.

Once a patient's blood vessels have been completely mapped and the nature and extent of any relevant cerebrovascular condition determined, a plan of action - including, for instance, further surgery or increased medication levels - can be formulated and put into practice, and it is in this way that the extremely precise diagnostic tool that is ESN really comes into its own.

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Extreme Exhaustion When Doing Candida Treatment

By Angie Lindsey
A friend is getting bored of her candida treatment and diet which contains mostly only all about meats and vegetables. And don't forget to add a lot of supplements. There are Vitamin C, B-50, Evening Primrose Oil, Vitamin E-400, Kelp, multivitamin, calcium-magnesium, also the yeast busters program that contains psyllium, caproil, bentonite, Olive leaf extract, and acidophilus.

This all seems to be working wonderfully. She still gets the beginning part/stage of yeast infections, but they are stopped easily by using tea tree oil suppositories, or inserting an acidophilus. However, she is getting really bored and frustrated. She is wondering and curious if maybe she is just craving because the candida is still there. She can guess nothing but it must be that she still gets yeast infections. She just doesn't know where they are coming from! She believes she has been eating nothing with sugar in it.

She wants to know if maybe she is not rotating her foods religiously enough. Sometimes, she eats some kind of foods more than two days in a row. It is just that when you can eat so little, it is so hard to keep variety going.

She believes that something must be happening. She is getting listless and tired again. She is also having trouble sleeping at night again. It is just complete exhaustion and she can hardly sleep a full night. She just wants to be better again. Now, she doesn't think she even remember what she likes.

Actually, hearing this kind of thing is usual when you are around people who suffer candidiasis. There are symptoms formed as fatigue, depression, brain fog, etc. They are all wasting your mind, energy, focus, and of course they are causing you to get exhaustion. There is some times when all the symptoms got you, which means you haven't done much in clearing it (the yeast). Take a good look and review what you have done for the treatment, and keep reading to get more input.

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Protect Yourself With Ansell Gloves

By Caitlina Fuller
Though concerned with healthcare products in general, Ansell is perhaps most known for its line of protective professional-grade gloves. These gloves come in a handful of different models aimed at a variety of applications and workloads. One of Ansell's more specific products is their VibraGuard anti-vibration gloves, which are

nitrile-infused with a Gelfôm pad and surrounding sponge rubber layers for optimum comfort and safety in handling high-vibration equipment. VibraGuard gloves include a soft fabric liner that is not irritating to the skin and has a vibration attenuation of EN10819.

Another highly specialized and highly effective Ansell product is the Neptune Kevlar knitted glove, which is rated for anything from light to heavy-duty work while maintaining the highest cut resistance you are likely to find in any safety glove. Outside the usual mechanical applications, methods for protecting one's hands are extremely valuable in chemical and otherwise toxic working environments as well. The ChemTek gloves are ideal for maximum protection against hazardous chemicals and materials, providing incredible dexterity while repelling even the nastiest toxins. These gloves are often used in the food industry, permitting professionals to handle raw meat on a regular basis without any risk of contamination or associated health hazards through skin contact. For any jobs requiring the highest of precision, the Ansell HyFlex is the brand and model of choice.

The HyFlex is essentially a lightweight knitted glove with rubber-dipped palm and fingers that mold immaculately to the shape of your hands. They are ideal for any jobs associated with assembling, inspecting, and packing of small and delicate parts, small scale metal stamping, and driving/operating trucks or forklifts. Basically, any job that you might not normally use gloves for is much improved by the addition of a pair of this incredibly sensitive hand wear. For heavier and more hazardous mechanical jobs, you might consider Ansell's PowerFlex model instead. Like most of the company's gloves, the PowerFlex is an extremely versatile, multi-purpose product that is a must-have for the serious professional or hobbyist. This glove features a soft poly/cotton knit liner for exceptional user comfort while providing a superior wet and dry grip. They are resistant to abrasion, punctures, and cuts without sacrificing breathability - the back of the glove is uncoated, allowing air to circulate and prevent sweaty hands. The PowerFlex is suitable for use in carpentry, forestry, janitorial and plant maintenance, outdoor construction, and shipping and receiving.

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Medical Jargon

By Edward Pullen Platinum Quality Aut
Almost all of us have a jargon we use in everyday language that is foreign to everyone not involved in our niche. As a bird watcher I talk of the dawn chorus, category 5 birds, coverts and tertials as though everyone should know what I'm talking about. As a physician when I use jargon there is more concern that problems

can arise, because often having my patient understand me is pretty important.

That said, here are a few of the common medical terms thrown around as though everyone knows what they mean, when likely many people don't:

Stool: I sit on a rolling one in my exam room, but when a physician asks you if you've had any change in your stool, they mean in your feces (poop).

Meatus: This is a natural body opening, like the urethral meatus at the tip of the penis or at the upper vagina in women where the urethra empties the bladder to the outside.

Micturition: Another name for urination. The verb is to micturate.

Parity: The number of times a woman has given birth. A nulliparous woman, or "nullip" for short, is a woman who has never given birth. A multiparous woman has given birth, and a "grand-multip" is a woman with more than 5 child births. Twins count as only one.

Gravity: The number of times a woman has been pregnant, including births, miscarriages, terminated pregnancies, and ectopic pregnancies. Twins counts as only one.

Comedone: This is a blocked skin pore seen in acne. These can be an open comedone or black-head, or a closed comedone or pimple.

There are lots more odd terms we use, but these are some of my favorites.

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Senior Home Care

By Katrina Polder
One of the growing allied health care industries is Senior Home Care industry. This is because of an increase in the number of aged people. A home care professional is not required to provide any medical care. His duties are limited to running the house by keeping it tidy, helping the aged people to cook and eat, bathing and

dressing them and reminding them to take their medicines on time. Sometimes they have to run errands.

These home care professionals are trained to perform their duties well. When you approach an agency that provides home care professionals, check the status of the agency. Check whether they are registered agents and what are the services they provide.

All reputed agencies will be more than happy to provide you with the information you are asking for. Some even give references to their present and past clients so that you can make cross checking. Once you are satisfied with an agency, the next step is to check how the home care professional is chosen by the agency.

Most agencies do a thorough check into the criminal background of the home care professional and only trustworthy ones will be assigned to senior citizens who need help. Reliability is an important factor because the family members cannot keep a watchful eye on the health care professional all the time.

Therefore, before signing the agreement with the hiring agency, interview the assigned candidate to ensure that he is trustworthy. Once you accept a certain health care provider, he naturally becomes a close aide of the aged member of your family. A certain level of trust and understanding between the caretaker and the care recipient is necessary to make the arrangement a success.

At the beginning, it is advisable to help the care provider to become familiar with the routines of your family and the aged family member. Give him/her all the necessary instructions. Most aged people don't like the idea of an outsider taking care of them and so the health professional should try not to be a hindrance in the way of the senior citizens.

Let the aged people do things on their own to the best of their abilities. This will give them the impression that they are not under the orders of anyone and the caretaker is just a friend only. The next step is to make a time schedule for the home health care professional.

You can expect three hours of daily service from him. If you need the services for the whole day, you must make alternate arrangements when the caretaker may be absent due to his own personal problems.

The final word to make the home care plan a success is to develop a strong bond between the caregiver and the care recipient. After all, the aim of hiring a care giver is to make the senior citizen happy and comfortable and only a dedicated and friendly person can provide these things.

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Doctor's Visit - How to Feel Confident and Not Be Intimidated When Asking Your Doctor Questions

By Sharon Petty
When making your appointment make the receptionist aware that you will have question for the doctor during your visit, this gives the office an opportunity if possible to arrange extra time for your appointment. You should prepare for your doctors visit by making a list of questions a few days before your visit. Review your

questions with someone you trust, your spouse, an adult child,a sibling, a wise adult, an nurse advocate, health coach.

As much as it is possible, try to organize your question so that your answers will be Yes or No, this will keep you from being overwhelmed with medical terminology when the doctor gives their answer.Share with them what you need to get out of this visit and that you need their help to make sure your questions are clear and concise enough to get the answers you need.

Try to keep the number of questions to no more than five, most doctors have a limited amount of time between patients. Be realistic about the amount of time your doctor can spend with you.

As an example if you focus is get clarity concerning your diagnosis you need to make sure you have a clear understanding the body system this diagnosis will effect. What activity change will be needed, what diet changes will be needed. ASK WHAT LIFE STYLE CHANGES CAN YOU DO TO IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH.

Make sure you ask questions that will give you information which will empower you to make a better decision.

Make sure you understand the care plan what will be first,second,third etc. Ask about any waiting time in between test and treatment. Make sure you understand fully any the preparation you will need before testing, by repeating the instructions to the person giving them to you will consist of and the steps to be taken. If you will need to take off work will you need a recovery time if so how many hours?

Make eye to eye contact with the doctor to creates an engaging conversation by both parties. If the doctors answer did not address your question be honest and tell them you are not clear, follow up by re phasing the question. Should you leave the office or emergency room with a new drug make sure you understand the expected outcome of the drug how long you will need to take them and how often, do you need to take them with food, most important what is the expected outcome. Above all make sure you understand why the drug was prescribed for you, agin what is the expected outcome Remember in most cases drugs should be used for a period of time, as a bridge, until your body has re-balanced. Ask what you can do to improve your condition so that in the future you can be weaned off of the medication. Make sure you understand the doctor plan of care regarding this drug.

You should leave your doctor with notes written by your self to refer to and review with your family and or care giver list of your question.

Make sure you leave your doctor office with all the office number and email addresses and leave the doctor with the same information for yourself.

Do not leave the office without a follow up appointment.

Sharon Petty graduated from nursing school as a registered nurse. She was accepted for training as Intensive Care Nurse where she worked for many years in the ICU. In 1980 Sharon trained in Emergency Medicine where she worked for 20 years. In conjunction with Emergency Medicine she worked as a patient advocate between the health insurance,patient, and the primary care provider.
My Life Passion
Since the age of 14 Sharon has studied continuously, to improving her knowledge on integrated health and wellness. She has a passion to educate the public on how to optimize their health. Currently she is studying to obtain a Master Degree in integrated medicine and to develop wellness camps around the globe coaching others in aging without disease. Current she works as a health coach and can be reached

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Some Candida Herbs' Discussion - Forget About Killing the Yeast

By Angie Lindsey
I will discuss some candida herbs, based on someone's letter I just got. This person wants to know how effective Pau d'Arco is. She is taking it in a concentrated liquid form along with olive leaf extract capsules. She has a natural healing book that suggests using Maitake tea if you stop responding to Pau d'Arco. She couldn't find

the tea at the health food store today, but she found it in capsule and it is a type of mushroom. She always thought mushrooms were a definite no-no when treating candida. She wants to get more information about it, also about Diatomaceous Earth that she doesn't really understand.

I would rotate the olive leaf, too, because it will get resistant if you just take on a daily basis. Also, Pau d'Arco must be boiled to receive more benefit. I have tried Maitake tea. It is a fungus and a mold, so don't mess around with it, since there are other things you could take. I would forget about killing the yeast. Just build up your immunity, eliminate allergens, keep your colon as clean as possible and juice as many green vegetables and red cabbage as possible. That worked better for me than all the things I took to kill yeast.

As for the Diatomaceous Earth, I heard that something about how it would cut through candida and even farmers will mix this with animal feed to kill parasites, etc. Well, I asked my friend who is a veterinarian just to double check before I spent $20 ordering some, and this is what he said. Unless there is a course mix of this stuff, it does not do those things internally. Piled on a bug or critter on the ground it might dehydrate it enough for it to die.

I do not believe that it will kill parasites internally. I suspect that Kaolin is almost the same thing and may be identical. It is in Kaopectate. You probably have taken a lot of it at one time or another. I think some one is dreaming up properties that do not exist.

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Safe Candida Probiotics for A 3 1/2 Years Old Kid - Curing Chronic Hives

By Angie Lindsey
Yeast problems are not new to this friend of mine for she has been battling for years. Her downfall is always the sugar addiction. Lately, her symptoms are worse, so she is getting serious. She has a question for the people taking Primal Defense, but it is actually not for her. She thinks her 3 ½ years old son may have Candida as

well. Also, he has lots of sugar cravings. At first, she scoffed it off as every kid wants sugar, but she doesn't want her kid growing up with a candida infection, and thinks to put him on some candida probiotics.

He doesn't eat any refined sugar but plenty of applesauce, raisins, fig newtons, etc. She doesn't buy juice or soymilk, so he doesn't get that kind of sugar. She would like to get him on a probiotic, but there is only one that she knows will work. She has heard in the past that Primal Defense is pretty good. The question is: can it be safe for a child that young? She wants recommendation for helping her son controls the candida and also getting rid of the sugar craving.

My kid has been taking Primal Defense, along with jarro bacillus and a couple of other HSO probiotics and has not been having any problems. He has been eating right and doing the attogram program for a couple of weeks. He is feeling better and I was thinking about using Primal Defense instead of the probiotic that comes with the program. My chronic hives is getting much better, too, after taking it.

The Primal Defense instructions on the bottle say that children under 12 may take one caplet daily and that it is safe for all ages. As far as I know, they don't help the sugar cravings though, you will need some l-glutamine and chromium for that. Usually, four days without any sugar is enough to stop the cravings, but they can return extremely quickly.

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Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology As A Diagnostic Tool

By Jeremy P Stanfords
Endovascular surgical neuroradiology is also known as both neurointerventional surgery and interventional neuroradiology. This highly specific branch of surgery encompasses those procedures used to diagnose cerebrovascular disorders - disorders of the blood vessels in/supplying the brain - from the inside of the blood vessels themselves.

Hospitals and clinics that treat cerebrovascular disorders through the use of endovascular surgical neuroradiology are located throughout the country even though these procedures are extremely specialized and require specially trained physicians to carry them out. In order to provide education opportunities to surgeons who are interested in specializing in this field, at least one chain of clinics has established an endovascular surgical neuroradiology fellowship, which has significantly furthered research into endovascular surgical neuroradiology in Florida, Ohio, Canada and even as far away as Abu Dhabi.

Physicians who enter the endovascular surgical neuroradiology (ESN) fellowship will receive training in not only the clinical diagnosis of endovascular disorders through the interpretation of x-ray imaging but also in the level and type of care needed for patients who exhibit endovascular symptoms. They will also learn how to interpret their test results and plan their treatments in conjunction with other, related, departments including neuropathology, ophthalmology and otolaryngology.

ESN has only been around for a fairly short time and was pioneered by Russian surgeon, Fedor Serbinenko, in 1979 during his research into how to diagnose and treat brain aneurysms. This branch of surgery has, however, made great strides in a relatively short amount of time and now uses cutting edge microcatheter technology to navigate, explore and map the body's blood vessels in order to determine the cause of whatever cerebrovascular disorder or disease a patient is experiencing.

ESN is used to diagnose a number of different cranial cerebrovascular conditions including, among others, brain aneurysms, brain arteriovenous malformations, brain artery blockages caused by intracranial atherosclerosis and brain tumors. Further disorders that benefit from the use of ESN techniques, which see physicians insert microcatheters into blood vessels in the groin to explore the vessels leading to the brain with the help of the latest x-ray technology, include dural arteriovenous fistulae, malformations of the Vein of Galen, carotid artery disease and even the simple nosebleed.

Once a patient's blood vessels have been completely mapped and the nature and extent of any relevant cerebrovascular condition determined, a plan of action - including, for instance, further surgery or increased medication levels - can be formulated and put into practice, and it is in this way that the extremely precise diagnostic tool that is ESN really comes into its own.

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