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Introduction: Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP) medical students typically enter the military with minimal military experience, commissioning specifically for the scholarship. During medical school, the only required training is a 5- to 6-week officer training course, which is neither specific to medicine nor guaranteed to be at the beginning of school, since it can be taken at any time. This lack of prior experience can lead to decreased confidence and understanding of the HPSP, specifically the medical school timeline leading up to the military match process and overall military.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFacial Skincare Routine Adherence in the General Population.
Cureus
December 2024
Family Medicine, Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine, Stratford, USA.
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic sparked an interest in skincare with the closure of spas and salons. Skincare, one of TikTok's most popular dermatology-related hashtags, received hundreds of millions of views. The American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) shared facial cleansing recommendations; however, how many people follow them is unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTherapeutic Errors Associated With Antithrombotic Medications Reported to United States Poison Centers.
Am J Hematol
January 2025
Center for Injury Research and Policy, The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
The objective of this study was to investigate the characteristics and trends of therapeutic errors in non-healthcare facility settings associated with antithrombotic medications reported to United States Poison Centers by analyzing data from the National Poison Data System from 2000 to 2021. There were 57 288 reported therapeutic error-related exposures involving antithrombotic medications as the primary substance. The rate of therapeutic errors increased by 590.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPredictors of mortality among sepsis patients transferred from a rural, low-volume ED to an urban, high-volume hospital.
Am J Emerg Med
January 2025
Samaritan Health Services, 2300 NW Walnut Blvd. Corvallis, OR 97330, United States of America. Electronic address:
Introduction: We investigated the extent to which demographic characteristics, clinical care aspects, and relevant biomarkers predicted sepsis-related mortality among patients transferred from a rural, low-volume emergency department (ED) to an urban, high-volume, level-2 trauma center.
Methods: We conducted an observational study among adult severe sepsis patients (N = 242) who, within a community-based regional healthcare system, presented to one of the four rural, low-volume EDs and were subsequently transferred to the urban, high-volume, level-2 trauma center, and were identified as septic at either location. We evaluated in-hospital and 30 days after discharge mortality.
Use of Oral and Intravenous Tranexamic Acid in Total Knee Arthroplasty and Total Hip Arthroplasty Procedures.
Cureus
December 2024
General Orthopedics, Midwest Bone and Joint Center, Macon, USA.
Introduction: Tranexamic acid (TXA) is an antifibrinolytic drug commonly used in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Intravenous (IV) and topical TXA therapy have been extensively studied and shown to reduce blood loss, length of hospital stay, and blood transfusion rates following TKA. Despite the extensive literature regarding IV and topical TXA in orthopedics, there is a current dearth of studies analyzing oral usage.
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