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September 26, 2014
Vol. 4.85 No. 39
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“See Me” Medicine
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hese days, there’s more to medicine than meets the eye. It’s true, physicians rely heavily on what they can see to diagnose and treat the patients in their care. From inspecting a wound, to studying X-ray imagery, to watching someone react to different stimuli in a physical examination, doctors use visual examinations as a critical component in understanding the state of a patient’s health. New On The Medicine Scene Today, however, physicians also rely on being able to communicate and exchange visual information, even when a patient or a colleague isn’t physically present. High-speed broadband and Ethernet-based networks support easy sharing of large medical image files and videoconferencing for remote health care visits and virtual collaboration. As in so many industries, broadband has been transformative in health care. Visual media—high-resolution imagery and video—have become fundamental tools in the evolving medical field. In the U.S., cable companies are the primary source of residential high-speed broadband connections and, after delivering TV for more than half a century, cable operators are also experts in delivering video. This expertise extends not only to homes across the country but to businesses, including health care facilities nationwide. Consider These Examples Charter Communications recently worked with Oregon Health Network to complete an 87-mile fiber network running from Grants Pass, Oregon to Crescent City, California. This broadband pipeline will let technicians send a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) X-ray from Oregon to Sutter Coast Hospital in Crescent City in less than a second.
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TheTime Health City Sun llc. 2012 Prime Publishing 2014 A rural health clinic in Oklahoma uses cable services from Cox Communications to support videoconferencing with health specialists in Oklahoma City. A stroke victim was the first patient to benefit from the system. Time Warner Cable delivers video offerings to health care facilities, including access to training and patient education, through its video-ondemand service, indicating that there’s growing need for health care-specific video delivery. As the medical industry increasingly depends not only on broadband but on high-resolution imagery and video, cable companies are expected to become more important allies in patient care. The trend is likely to accelerate in the months and years ahead. Learn More For more information, visit the Healthcare section of www.cablemeansbusiness.com. -(NAPSI)
CPR Training For Schools
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ids learning bystander CPR may be the answer to reducing death from the 420,000 cardiac arrests that occur outside of a hospital each year. Sadly, most of those victims die because bystanders don’t know how to start CPR or are afraid they’ll do something wrong. Further complicating the issue are the disparities among Latinos and African Americans, who are 30 percent less likely to have bystander CPR performed on them in an emergency, according to a study in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. People who live in lowerincome, African-American neighborhoods are 50 percent less likely to have CPR performed. Fortunately, the American Heart Association (AHA) trains students, teachers and parents in CPR via its CPR in Schools initiative to help eliminate these inequities, exposing lifesaving skills to millions at a young age. A recent study learned that residents of high-risk neighborhoods believe teaching children about lifesaving CPR and then having them share this knowledge with their families and friends is key to spreading the message.
“Our continued research shows disparities exist in learning and performing CPR and we are ready to move beyond documenting gaps to finding solutions to fix them,” said Dianne Atkins, professor of Pediatrics at the University of Iowa. “School is a great equalizer, which is why CPR in schools is an integral part of the solution and will help increase bystander CPR across all communities and save more lives,” she added. Several states now require all students be trained in psychomotor skill-based CPR before graduating from high school. That means more than a million students trained in CPR each year, which means victims of cardiac arrest have a greater chance at getting the help they need before paramedics arrive. To learn more about CPR in Schools legislation, go to http://beCPRsmart.org. To learn more about CPR in Schools initiatives, call (877) AHA4CPR or visit www.heart.org/CPRinSchools. -(NAPSI)