Confidentiality and Privacy for Smartphone Applications in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Unmet Needs and Practical Solutions.

This article summarizes the current literature on clinical knowledge and practical gaps regarding the confidentiality and privacy for smartphone and connected devices in child and adolescent psychiatry and offers practical solutions and consideration for the next steps for the field. Important issues to consider include disclosure of information sharing, access privilege, privacy and trust, risk and benefit analysis, and the need for standardization. Through understanding the privacy and confidentiality concerns regarding digital devices, child and adolescent psychiatrists can guide patients and parents though informed decision-making and also help shape how the field creates the next generation of these tools.

Hallucinogen Use Disorders.

Use of hallucinogenic substances as a public health concern has increased over the past decade. Among adolescents, there are increasing emergency department presentations for intoxication with these drugs, contrary to decreasing reported use of classical hallucinogens such as LSD. Academic and governmental groups have monitored use of hallucinogens, highlighting a notable change in perceptions about use among adolescents thought to contribute to these trends.

One surgeon's Army experience with "wound shock" from Pearl Harbor to the present.

The Army has had extensive experience in the study and treatment of shock, beginning with the American Civil War and continuing to the present. This is the story of one Army surgeon's experience, both in research and treatment of shock, from Pearl Harbor to the present.

A brief overview of acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Background: The low pO: (2) in traumatic and septic shock was first documented at Walter Reed Army Medical Center starting in 1960. It was postulated that this respiratory failure was due to the occlusion of the pulmonary microcirculation by the microclots of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).

Materials And Methods: Animal studies showed that pulmonary failure and death could be caused by intravenous injection of a killed culture of either Escherichia coli or pneumococcal organisms or by severe muscle contusion.