Publications by authors named "J Farah"
Article Synopsis
- Gonorrhea is a gram-negative bacterium that spreads through sexual contact and can sometimes cause serious health issues, like disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI), when it spreads from the initial infection site.
- A case report details an 18-year-old diagnosed with septic arthritis in their hand, who had gonococcal bacteremia but no typical symptoms or mucosal involvement.
- This case emphasizes the need for doctors to recognize unusual symptoms of DGI, especially in patients with risky sexual behaviors, to facilitate early diagnosis and treatment, ultimately avoiding severe complications.
Objectives: Despite limited supporting data, hospitals continue to apply ambulance diversion (AD). Thus, we examined the impact of three different diversion policies on diversion hours, transport time (TT; leaving scene to arrival at the hospital), and ambulance patient offload time (APOT; arrival at the hospital to patient turnover to hospital staff) for 9-1-1 transports in a 22-hospital county Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system.
Methods: This retrospective study evaluated metrics during periods of three AD policies, each 27 days long: hospital-initiated (Period 1), complete suspension (Period 2), and County EMS-initiated (Period 3).
The emerging neuroscientific frontier of brain fingerprinting has recently established that human functional connectomes (FCs) exhibit idiosyncratic features, which map onto heterogeneously distributed behavioral traits. Here, we harness brain-fingerprinting tools to extract FC features that predict subjective drug experience induced by the psychedelic psilocybin. Specifically, in neuroimaging data of healthy volunteers under the acute influence of psilocybin or a placebo, we show that, post psilocybin administration, FCs become more idiosyncratic owing to greater intersubject dissimilarity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLarge hiatal hernias, besides being more prevalent in the elderly, have a different clinical presentation: less reflux, more mechanical symptoms, and a greater possibility of acute, life-threatening complications such as gastric volvulus, ischemia, and visceral mediastinal perforation. Thus, surgical indications are distinct from gastroesophageal reflux disease-related sliding hiatal hernias. Heartburn tends to be less intense, while symptoms of chest pain, cough, discomfort, and tiredness are reported more frequently.
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