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Distinguishing grief from depression* Grief Depression Intense symptoms for at least 1-2 months** Longer duration Usually no suicidal ideation*** Such ideas are common Visions or voice of deceased transient only**** May have sustained depressive delusions Pangs interspersed with normal feelings Continuous, pervasive depressed mood May blame deceased Blames self Improves with time No change or worsening *If in doubt, treat for depression – antidepressants do not retard the grieving process. See Kendler ea (2008) who doesn’t see the value of distinguishing these two phenomena. With regard to stillbirth, it is important to know when to promote grieving and when not to blow the event up out of proportion in the mind of the bereaved. It is suggested that women experiencing a stillbirth be nursed on a gynaecology ward instead of a postnatal ward after delivery. Anticipatory guidance involves covering such topics as how to explain the loss to others, giving away clothes and toys, meeting friends with young babies, and anything else that may help the woman to cope when she goes home. Fathers may be almost as anxious antenatally as the mother when there is a history of previous stillbirth. It has been suggested that induction of delivery should be considered as soon as feasible after diagnosis of death in utero. In the ‘replacement child syndrome’(Cain & Cain, 1964) a child is specifically conceived to replace a dead sibling, or an existing sibling may be forced into taking this role. The mother may have experienced unusually high numbers of family losses in her own childhood. The home may have a funereal atmosphere with a palpable obsession with links to the deceased. Men may be more secretive about infertility than are women and men may experience difficulty performing sexually according to prescribed schedules. Occasional cases of infertility are associated with non- consummation or anorexia nervosa. She may harbour guilt over past sexual acts and regret over past induced abortion or she may blame herself for delaying attempts to conceive for career reasons. Some cases who do conceive may paradoxically become depressed, possibly as a let down after years of fantasising about how wonderful ordinary parenting would be. Clomiphene, used to induce ovulation, may be associated with depression, anxiety, and poor sleep. Assisted reproduction is associated with a small increase in low birth weight and congenital defects, although the great majority of such babies are normal. Older women who conceive as a result of medical intervention are at increased risk of having babies with chromosomal abnormalities. They may develop grief because of lost hopes, anger that it happened to them or because they were wrongly reassured, denial of the reality of the situation, anxiety for future children or 1557 Founded in 1978 in Britain as the Stillbirth Association. The intellectually disabled themselves may express grief in ways other than speech, such as insomnia, anorexia, searching, externally-directed aggression, a decline in intellectual or other skills, incontinence, or indifference. The fact that intellectually disabled people are living longer means that more of them experience the death of loved ones. The relatives of suicides tend to be shocked, to search for an explanation, to find it difficult to share feelings, to feel guilty or stigmatised (often reinforced by the media and others: Harwood ea, 2002; de Groot ea, 2007), or to feel relief (if the relationship with the suicide was poor). There may be an increased mortality from suicide among the bereaved following suicide, although attribution of cause is difficult because, for example, there may be a shared tendency to affective disorder. The same difficulty applies to interpreting reports of a history of exposure to suicide attempts or threats by friends or relatives in the histories of suicide completers: shared cultural and genetic factors act as confounders. Therapists, who may themselves be severely distressed,(Hendin ea, 2004) should initiate early contact with the bereaved family.

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In an article in Saturday Review, “T he New Naturalism ,” Daniel Yankelovich argues that the new naturalism means, am ong other things: T o push th e D arw inian version o f n a tu re as “survival o f the fittest” into the background, an d to em phasize instead the in terd ep en d en ce o f all things and species in natu re; T o place sensory experience ah ead o f conceptual know ledge; T o live physically close to n atu re, in th e open, o ff th e land; An Emerging Zeitgeist 149 T o live in g ro u p s (tribes, com m unes) ra th e r th an in such “artificial” social units as th e nuclear fam ily; T o de-em phasize aspects o f n a tu re illum ined by science; in ­ stead, to celebrate all th e unknow n, th e m ystical, an d the m ys­ terious elem ents o f natu re; T o stress cooperation ra th e r th an com petition; T o devalue detach m en t, objectivity, a n d noninvolvem ent as m ethods fo r finding tru th ; to arrive at tru th , instead, by direct experience, participation an d involvem ent; T o reject m astery over n atu re; T o em phasize the com m unity ra th e r th an th e individual; and T o preserve th e en v iro n m en t at the expense o f econom ic grow th an d technology. But if the m ovement gains m om entum over the next three de­ cades, new values will be established upon which future decisions m ust be based. If so, some of the prob­ lems associated with growth, such as pollution, resource depletion, and the spread of concrete might be checked. If it is true that attitudes engendered in youth survive into old age, many o f those who govern at the end of this century will have been acculturated differently from those who govern today. A lthough the countercultural rev­ olution may turn out to be ephem eral, it is still likely to have some effect on political and social change over the next 30 years. With that integration has come a steady inflation of the role o f the federal government. T he passage of a national health insurance plan will swell the federal role even more. But at the same time, some communities may seek to assume 150 The Climate for Medicine more, not less, of the obligation to provide their care. In addition, consum er dem ands for more personalized care are likely to increase; ironically at a time when manpower shortages and the institutionalization in the medical care system frustrates this dem and. It is doubt­ ful that this will be widespread, but communities may try to treat “their own” using indigenous folk practices. T he demise of folk medicine was associated with the disin­ tegration of viable insular com m unities. Profes­ sionalism is incompatible with the idea of community and the egalitarianism that accompanies it. But professionalism in the sense of autonomy, to use Eliot Freidson’s concep­ tualization, is the cornerstone of the medical care system. In The Natural Mind,,21 Andrew Weil draws a distinction between “straight,” or conventional thinking, and “stoned” thinking. Straight thinking is charac­ terized as: • a tendency to know things through the intellect rather than through some faculty of mind; • a tendency to be attached to the senses and through them to external reality; • a tendency to pay attention to outw ard forms rather than to inner contents and thus to lapse into materialism; An Emerging Zeitgeist 151 • a tendency to perceive differences rather than similarities am ong phenom ena; • a tendency toward negative thinking, pessimism, and despair. Straight thinking assumes that nature is hostile and can be managed by direct application of force. Weil continues: As vigorous selective agents, insecticides in o u r w orld play a significant role in th e evolutionary developm ent o f all insect species. T h ey neatly w eed out th e susceptible n u m b er o f fam ilies co ncentrating in insect gene pools all over th e w orld th e genetic factors th at confer resistance to these chem icals. New and m ore effective insecticides are then needed and so on—an infinite regress. Weil then distinguishes straight thinking from “stoned” thinking: • a reliance on intuition as well as intellection; • an acceptance of the ambivalent nature o f things; • an experience of infinity and its positive aspects. The autonom ic nervous system, which is supposed to trigger the involuntary muscles such as the heart, illustrates stoned thinking. U nder prevailing biomedical concepts, the au­ tonomic nervous system is not “connected” to consciousness. If told that his or her skin has been touched by hot metal, a subject in full trance will blister as if burned when touched by a finger. Weil concludes that there “m ust be a channel be­ tween mind and body [that] is wide open whenever we are in 152 The Climate for Medicine an altered state o f consciousness. In The Master Game,26 one of the many books and articles on the subject, Robert S. De- Ropp argues that because hum an beings have evolved with a large brain, they should be capable of far greater powers than they have dem onstrated. DeRopp feels that, “because [man] does not know how to use this powerful machine, it tends to operate in ways not beneficial to its possessor, to generate a host of illusions am ong which he wanders.

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The nuclear medicine imaging of inflam- matory processes and infection is a form of tissue characterization which has moved from the generally sensitive, but non-specific or context specific, agents, to more disease specific agents. Inflammation Acute inflammation is typically initiated by trauma, burns or infective agents resulting in tissue injury and tissue necrosis. These factors initiate defence mechanisms, such as the release of cytokines, complements and antibodies, which are associated with vasodilation and increased capillary permeability resulting in extravasation of proteins and cells to the affected area. They migrate down the chemoattractant gradient and lead to the classical combination of swelling, redness, pain and protective loss of function. Chronic inflammation is characterized by a reduction in vasodilation and capillary permeability, a reduction in leucocyte activity, and an increase in monocytes and macrophages with lymphocytic infiltration. It is perpetuated by continuing necrosis, followed by activation of dendritic cells and appearance of antigen presenting cells, with possible formation of autoimmune disease granuloma. Clearly, radiolabelled white cells and agents that depend on vascular permeability will be less effective in this situation. In the case of infection, a yet more specific agent is preferable, such as one binding only to bacteria, for example 99mTc-ciprofloxacin (Infecton). Inflammation and infection imaging agents and their indications (a) Imaging inflammation The choice of imaging agent depends on the biological processes, as outlined above. Advantage can be taken of increased vascular permeability by using 67Ga citrate transferrin complex; polyclonal human immunoglobulin; liposomes (100 mm), particularly if pegylated; nanocolloids; and dextrans. The endothelium in vasculitis may be shown with E-selectin antibodies and Amyloid by using 123I serum amyloid protein or 99mTc-aprotonin. 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Focused ultrasound is also rapidly gaining popularity as a supple- Ventilation ment to the stethoscope in the prehospital arena, where traditional If a patient becomes apnoeic or their ventilation is inadequate to auscultation may be unreliable due to ambient noise. Ultrasound maintain oxygenation despite supplementation they will require may, for example, be used to detect or exclude pneumothoraces. The self-expanding bag can give the illusion of sufficient ventilation although very little air is entering the lungs. Pay close attention to the movement of the chest and abdomen and the bag compliance during ventilation. Head Patients with facial hair may require the application of lubricant to extension ismaintained. A two-person technique is recommended in order to cleared and in combination with a jaw thrust and simple airway reduce the risk of gastric inflation and improve the efficacy of ventilation. Correct Incorrect Incorrect Incorrect Anaesthetic breathing circuits may be used for ventilation but do rely on continuous gas flow for bag inflation and carbon dioxide clearance, which cannot always be guaranteed in the prehospital environment. Transport ventilators Where available a portable transport ventilator should be used during the transfer of ventilated patients. Ventilators provide more consistent ventilation than manual ventilation and allow better Mask Size and Position targeting of end tidal carbon dioxide. The respiratory rate and tidal volume are • Use circular masks for infants and young children set to determine the minute volume delivered. Complex ventilators may allow titration of oxygen concentration whereas simple ventilators are usually limited to either 100% or Life-threatening breathing problems: 45% (air mix). It is trauma mandatory to employ a transport ventilator with pressure alarms that will warn you if the ventilator is disconnected resulting in a There are a number of traumatic chest injuries that pose an immedi- non-ventilated patient. As 2 Inspiration: Expiration ratio(I:Eratio) 1:2 intrapleural pressure increases there is compression and collapse of the ipsilateral lung leading to progressive hypoxia. Progressive respiratory • If pressure mode is available, set inspiratory pressure to 20 cmH20 distress and pleuritic chest pain are universal findings. Respiratory failure leading to respiratory arrest ensues unless treatment is initiated. Patient positioning The application of positive pressure ventilation, either to support A patient in respiratory distress will often not accept transport the patients failing ventilation or following prehospital anaesthesia, in the supine position. Elevation of the head of the stretcher will accelerate the build-up of intrapleural pressure exponentially. If the patient is transported in the lateral position, most be the first indicator of tension pneumothorax in the ventilated patients are better lying on the non-injured side because this results patient. Increasingpressure in better perfusion and therefore gas exchange in the non-injured leads to displacement of the mediastinal structures, including the lung. This in Most trauma patients are fitted with a rigid neck collar until the combination with elevated intra-thoracic pressure reduces venous cervical spine is cleared. However, patients in respiratory distress return to the right side of the heart, leading to hypotension and are often anxious and find it extremely uncomfortable to wear a ultimately cardiovascular collapse. Alternative measures (for instance manual stabilisation of the trachea and distended neck veins in the normovolaemic or sandbags) may be more acceptable for the patient and should be patient may be seen at this point and warn of imminent cardiac arrest. Identify landmarks • Fifth Intercostal Space, Mid-Axillary Line • Second Intercostal Space, Mid-Clavicular Line 3. Perform a finger sweep • In-line with male nipple • Note whether any air/blood release • Patients hand-width below axilla • Note whether lung is up and expanded • Dissect over the top of lower rib • Beware bone fragments 10. In approximates to , or is greater in size than the tracheal diameter, the awake patient, needle decompression with a large-bore cannula air will preferentially flow through the chest wall rather than the is both simple and effective and aims to convert the tension upper airway on inspiration (‘sucking chest wound’). Insertion in the lateral pneumothorax should be obvious during inspection of the chest chest is more likely to be successful than the traditional anterior and immediately sealed as part of primary survey management.

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Prehospital cardiac arrest in the trauma 2 Equipment – The only equipment you have is the equipment victim you carry medicine identifier generic tranexamic 500 mg amex. This means that one’s kit must be well prepared medicine hat mall 500mg tranexamic sale, checked and cleaned prior to Introduction the call-out treatment for scabies discount 500 mg tranexamic free shipping. Ideally the emergency bag should be packed exactly victim is generally associated with low survival rates. Cardiac Arrest 121 4 Breathing techniques The administration of supplemental oxygen to the traumatic cardiac arrest victim is mandatory as these patients are inevitably hypoxic from cardiac and/or respiratory causes. In addition to positive pressure ventilation and chest compres- sions, the following should be considered: ◦ Closure of open chest wounds and control of active bleeding. Should administration, relief of pericardial tamponade, or even open car- emergency thoracotomy be performed, fluid administration diac massage via emergency thoracotomy. It is therefore necessary, may be undertaken via the right atrium directly if necessary. Evidence of need to be administered in order to maintain the patient in a longstanding death such as rigor mortis, dependent livido or state of adequate anaesthesia prior to transport to the receiving putrefaction are obvious indicators of futility. Injuries incompatible Care must be taken when calculating effective doses of medi- with survival such as hemicorporectomy, severe head trauma cations and fluid administration in the post-traumatic cardiac and emaceration do not warrant resuscitation. Ventricular fibrillation Once the pulse returns, it may be prudent to adopt a ‘permissive or pulseless electrical activity would indicate potential viability hypotension’ approach, maintaining the systolic blood pressure as opposed to an asystolic rhythm. Opening, maintaining and protecting the airway in a traumatic 7 Evacuation to hospital cardiac arrest victim may present challenges due to distortion The post-traumatic cardiac arrest victim who has a return of of normal anatomy caused by the mechanism of injury. This spontaneous circulation, or who has a specific in-hospital medi- may lead to the necessity of providing spinal protection and the cally or surgically correctible cause of cardiac arrest, will require early use of supraglottic, glottic or infraglottic devices to provide transportation to the nearest and most appropriate emergency adequate oxygenation. Associated severe head injury ◦ Inadequate rescuer training, equipment, assistance or system resources Haemorrhage control en route, particularly following return Inadequate emergency department or specialist surgical support within a of spontaneous circulation. Large rescue-type scissors Large sharp-pointed scissors Artery forceps or equivalent Prehospital emergency thoracotomy Foley catheter 3/0 non-absorbable suture on a curved needle or staples Introduction Numerous large abdominal type swabs. Prehospital emergency thoracotomy, although still a controversial subject, has a definitive role in the resuscitation of the critically injured patient when performed by an appropriately trained and Table 22. Curved Mayo scissors This systemized approach ensures that guidance is available in the Toothed forceps Large vascular clamp (e. Satinsky) decision-making process, safety is maintained during the operative Aortic clamp (e. De Bakey) procedure, adequate assistance is always on-hand, and hospital Needle holders (long and short) definitive care is activated timeously, all of which is geared towards Selection of sutures patient resuscitation, stabilisation and hospital discharge neurolog- ically intact. In this type of setting, the generally quoted success rates of 9–12% for penetrating trauma can be increased to as high as 38%. Operative technique Aleftanterolateralsurgicalapproachistheclassicalmethodofentry, Indications and relative contraindications extending from the left parasternal costochondral junction in the The indications and relative contraindications for prehospital fifth or sixth intercostal space to the mid-axillary line laterally, emergency thoracotomy are listed in Table 22. However, it is far more practical to extend the incision across the sternum Equipment (clamshell incision) into a bilateral anterior thoracotomy because The equipment required for on-scene resuscitative thoracotomy of the access that it provides to the pericardium, pleura and rest of must be safe, simple and effective for use in an environment which the mediastinum, thus facilitating surgical release of a pericardial is limited in resources, generally unsterile, and open to the elements. Once spontaneous cardiac rhythm has been restored, haemorrhage from incised vessels, including the internal mammary Table 22. Individual decisions will be exsanguination en route to the delegated emergency department required for blunt polytrauma patients where survival rates approximate nearby. The travel duration from injury to specialist surgical hospital care is greater than 10 minutes. Resus- sions, as hypoxia is the main determinant of cardiac arrest in citation should not be started if the patient has a valid Do Not children. If • The depth of compressions should be at least one-third of the this has been unequivocally established, then there is no reason- anterior-posterior diameter of the chest wall. However, while any to approximately 5 cm in the child and approximately 4 cm in an withdrawal of existing treatment which could hasten the patient’s infant. Always err on the side of quent shocks at 4 joules/kg or higher (up to a maximum of 10 commission when it comes to resuscitation decisions. If paediatric pads or attenuator An ‘advance directive’ is an expression of a person’s thoughts, is not available, then the adult pads should be used. The legal validity of the various forms darone (5 mg/kg) may be given after the third shock and repeated of advance directives varies, but courts tend to consider written after the fifth and seventh shock if necessary (not to exceed advance directives to be more trustworthy than recollections of 300 mg/dose or a maximum total dose of 2.

Georg, 36 years: One can suspect pseudohyponatremia if the measured and calculated serum osmolarities are different.

Mojok, 48 years: Can cause short-lived nasal and throat irritation, sneezing, cough and watery eyes.

Marus, 33 years: Fatty acids, from triacylglycerols, are metabolised in the liver and peripheral tissue via β-oxidation into acetyl-CoA; the remaining glycerol is an important source of glucose (in gluconeogenesis) in the liver.

Kayor, 46 years: Additional specialized stud- somewhat by the phase of the clinical trial, and ies might be needed in order to study the potential may still vary among countries where the trial is for an effect that might be characteristic of drugs in being conducted.

Joey, 61 years: However, realising that Julia probably was suffering a return of her cancer, she advised her in definite terms that she would have to go back to her hospital consultant for treatment.

Will, 49 years: It should be recalled that the olfactory pathway represents the only sensory modality having direct access to the cerebral cortex without passing through the thalamus (‘marriage bed’).

Corwyn, 50 years: It is predicted that by 2020, the number of people over the age of 50 needing substance abuse treatment will double (Han ea, 2009).

Norris, 60 years: Adiponectin A mixture of By increasing glucose catabolism, anti-inflammatory adiponectin achieves a reduction of glucose peptide hormones levels in vivo.

Hatlod, 52 years: The methods, and be less fatigued; (6) avoid pulling an “all- strengths, and weaknesses of this approach have nighter” before the test, and plan on getting at least recently been reviewed.

Olivier, 57 years: In situ small- vessel disease (microatheroma or lipohyalinosis) is considered to be the most likely mechanism.

Bradley, 26 years: See if the symptom picture matches the indications outlined earlier in this section.

Ronar, 44 years: As well as the workshops, Positively Healthy organised public meetings and day-long seminars.

Cronos, 43 years: This patient’s bradycardia is severe, probably a result of the infe- rior myocardial infarction.

Xardas, 24 years: Glycerol is used by the liver for triacylglycerol synthesis or for gluconeogenesis (following its conversion to 3-phosphoglycerate).

Elber, 45 years: For example, co-administration of paracetamol (acetamino- Some aspects are beyond the scope of this chapter but remain phen), codeine and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs can integral to the delivery of safe and effective analgesia to patients in reduce the amount of morphine required over several hours.

Hernando, 39 years: National Center for Pelvic Pain and trigger point presence; and (2) sacroiliac dysfunc- Research, Occidental, California tion.

Ketil, 47 years: By reading patients’ complaints about similar health issues, users gain reassurance and information that would otherwise be neglected without a face-to-face medical encounter.

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