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Minimally Conscious State The Aspen workgroup defined the minimally conscious state (MCS) as a condition of severely altered consciousness in which the person demonstrates minimal but definite behavioral evidence of self or environmental awareness (Giacino et al, 1997). As with patients in the vegetative state (VS), patients in MCS have spontaneous eye opening and sleep-wake cycles. Arousal may

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Medical Informatics in NeurologyAuthored by Hamid Sami, MD, MSc, Clinical Neurophysiology/Neuromuscular Fellow, Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine Hamid Sami, MD, MSc, is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Neurology, American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine, American Medical Association, and American Medical Informatics Association

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Drugs That May Cause Neuropathy or Are Neurotxic for Patient With Neuropathy Antineoplastics Cisplatin (ataxic sensory neuropathy is dose limiting) Bortezomib Suramin Taxoids (docetaxel, paclitaxel) Vinca alkaloids (vincristine, vinblastine; neuropathy is dose limiting) Antiretrovirals Didanosine (dideoxyinosine) Stavudine (d4T) Zalcitabine (dideoxycytidine) Other antimicrobials

HSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3805662.post-1091285164926685142004-07-31T10:46:00.000-04:002004-07-31T10:53:09.526-04:00Barriers to Management of Patients with Surgically Remediable Intractable Epilepsy

Between 400,000 and 600,000 people in the United States have medically intractable seizures. Of these, it is estimated that between 100,000 and 200,000 patients with intractable epilepsy are eligible for surgery. Despite this, only 2,000-3,000 surgical procedures are performed annually in the US. The reason for the disparity between the potential number of surgical procedures that could be

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Patient Assistance Programs Brand Name List NeedyMeds

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Paraneoplastic syndromes

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Color Your Way to 5 A Day More Color More Health Growing up you may have been told to eat your greens, but what about your reds, oranges, yellows and blues? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the 5 A Day Partnership encourages YOU to "Sample the Spectrum" of the colorful vegetables and fruit available this season. By putting something of every color on your plate or in your

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'Best Antioxidants List' MONDAY, June 28 (HealthDayNews) -- A variety of veggies, fruits and nuts battled it out this month for the top spot on a new list of the 20 most antioxidant-rich foods, ranked by nutrition scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (news - web sites) (USDA). In the end, small red beans won the day, narrowly beating out wild blueberries as the food with the

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Create Pockets to Protect Your Assets By: Lee R. Phillips Asset protection is something that you should be concerned about. There are a lot of little things you can do to protect yourself, and, in many cases, the little things add up to create a fairly good asset protection plan. You can compare protecting your assets to protecting your money from a pickpocket. If all of your money is

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Sleep Classification The original diagnostic classification of sleep and arousal disorders by the Association of Sleep Disorder Centers categorized sleep-wake disorders into four classes: (1) disorders of initiating and maintaining sleep, (2) disorders of excessive somnolence, (3) disorders of sleep-wake schedule, and (4) dysfunctions associated with sleep, sleep stages, or partial arousals (

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Primary headache associated with sexual activity By: Hamid R Sami and James R Couch ICD Code 784.0 Synonyms Benign coital cephalgia; Coital headache; Orgasmic cephalgia; Sexual headache, Benign sex headache Historical note and nomenclature Headache related to sexual activity has been recognized since the time of Hippocrates, who first suggested that headache might be brought

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CPRmaker - A freeware application based on powerful Filemaker database that specifically designed for neurologists and is customized to run on PC or Mac. - It can be run from any storage device such as USB drives for ultimate mobility and ease of access and recording. - Customizable interface for your practice name, address, logo etc. - Can be used with any speech recognition softwares

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Patient Assistance Programs Merck Patient Assistance Program Pfizer Patient Assistance Program Astra Zeneca PAP program

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Discontinuation and Reinstitution of Medications During the Perioperative Period. Steven E. Pass; Robert W. Simpson Am J Health-Syst Pharm 61(9):899-912, 2004.

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AIDS CNS- d/t HIV, Opportunistic infections, Neoplasm In HIV pt the most common brain lesions- toxo, B cell NHL, pyogenic abcess, syphylis, PML, mets Tx of toxo- pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine are of initial benefit in up to 90% of patients. most adult in US have ab indicative of prior exposure. Cerebral involvement is thought to represent reactivation of a late primary infection. AIDS

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Patient Condition and Choice of Antihypertensive Drugs Conditions Drug Choice No comorbid conditions Diuretics Isolated systolic hypertension (elderly patients) Diuretics (preferred), calcium antagonists (DHP)* Angina Beta blockers,* calcium antagonists (non-short-acting DHP) Angina (with diabetes or LV dysfunction) ACE inhibitors† (in addition to

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Contraindications to Antihypertensive Drugs Class of Drug Possible Contraindications Compelling Contraindications Diuretics Dyslipidemia (high doses), allergy to sulfa-based antibiotics, patient is sexually active man, diabetes mellitus (high doses) Gout, allergy to sulfa-based diuretics Beta blockers Bronchospastic disease (asthma, COPD,

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