The MedicCast

This week on the MedicCast podcast for EMTs, paramedics and EMS students, the podmedic provides a discussion on assessing behavioral and psychological patients.Emergency responders should be aware that changes in behavior and mental status is not always psychological in origin so it is up to them to thoroughly assess the patient for presence of head injuries, low blood sugar, poor oxygenation and the like that may be causing altered mental status. The show also includes news items for EMS and resource links for a more comprehensive review.

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The MedicCast is a weekly show for EMTs, paramedics and EMS students offering news, products, interviews, comments, tips, tricks and more.

The Nursing Show

This week on the Nursing Show podcast for nurses and nursing students, the podmedic provides tips on how to effectively assess psychological patients. In assessing such patients, nurses should be aware of everything the patient tells them and focus on the patients feelings. In this episode, nurses will be provided a review on interview techniques and safety measures to consider when dealing with psychological patients. Also in the show are news in healthcare and nursing, including links to the news items and additional resources for this week’s feature

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The Nursing Show is a weekly podcast for registered nurses and nursing students offering news, articles, interviews, reviews, tips and more.

This episode: Diet might be the primary factor affecting gut microflora!

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In this episode, R. Trent Codd, III, Ed.S. interviews Marolyn Morford, PhD about Reactive Attachment Disorder. Specifically, they discuss:

• What Reactive Attachment Disorder is

• Difficulties with the RAD Diagnosis

• What Attachment is

• The weak relationship between attachment treatment and attachment research

• The dangers associated with many of the “specialized” treatments for RAD

• “Thinking Errors” that lead clinicians and parents to make faulty conclusions about extreme behavior problems

• Effective treatments for extreme behavior problems

Marolyn Morford, PhD Biography

Marolyn Morford received a B.A. in French Language and Literature, then tossed away her frivolous life and pursued a PhD from the University of Chicago in Educational Psychology, Committee on Child Development, becoming licensed in psychology practice. She has received clinical training in hospital, community, and school contexts, is licensed in Pennsylvania as a psychologist, and listed in the National Health Register of Service Providers in Psychology. She is past president of the Central Pennsylvania Psychologist Association, a member of the American Psychological Association’s Division 53 (Clinical Child Psychology), the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapists, Pennsylvania Psychological Association’s Child Custody Task Force, Committee on Ethics, Continuing Education, the Practice-Research Network, and chair of PPA’s E-newsletter. She has over 25 years of experience working with children and their families as well as young adults. Besides her clinical practice, at the Center for Child and Adult Development in State College, she enjoys consulting to schools, groups and individuals providing direct care, and giving presentations to professional and community groups to increase awareness of human development, behavior, and emotional health needs.

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Do you sneeze at the Sun? I do. My brother does. Both my parents do. In fact, we are a family of Photic Sneeze sufferers.

The Photic Sneeze Reflex (PSR), also known rather ridiculously as Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helioophthalmic Outburst (ACHOO) Syndrome (how long do you think it took researchers to figure out that acronym…) is a dominant genetic condition affecting around 10% of the population. When a sufferer moves from a region of darkness to a region of bright light – for instance, walking outside and looking at the Sun – multiple sneezes occur. Researchers into the disorder have yet to explain either its mechanism or an evolutionary reason for why it occurs. One theory is that there is a “short circuit” in the brain, with the stimulated optic nerve somehow triggering the sneeze reflex.

Professor Louis Ptá?ek runs the Laboratories of Neurogenetics at the University of California, San Francisco. The aim of the lab is to study familial disorders with strong genetic contributions, and thus localise and identify genes that cause human disease. Other conditions in which he is interested include migraine and epilepsy, and an intriguing condition whereby certain sounds cause seizures. He considers PSR to generally be a midly annoying condition, unless you are a combat pilot, where sneezing at the Sun could indeed be life threatening. I had a really interesting chat to Louis about PSR, and I’ve left the recording a little longer than usual, as we were really able to explore some fascinating ideas involved with PSR – it was a great chat.

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With climate change seemingly falling off the agenda of Australia’s major political parties in the lead-up to the 2010 federal election, I wanted to see whether this inaction reflected the views of the community. I headed down to Paddington Markets, on Oxford St in Paddington, Sydney for some vox pops. This area falls within the federal seat of Wentworth, whose member is perhaps the only member of the Liberal Party willing to act on climate change, Malcolm Turnbull. It borders the seat of Sydney, whose sitting member is Labor’s Tanya Plibersek. Watch this vidcast here.

Tonight I attended a Greens function at which Greens Leader Senator Bob Brown spoke, and I was lucky enough to grab him for a few minutes to ask him about the science issues that may play a role in the upcoming election. Listen in to this show here.

It is August again, and that can only mean one thing: Time for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival! EUSci has been there, and brings you a podcast with a selection of the geekiest and nerdiest science-related shows at the Fringe this year.

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This episode: Breastmilk nourishes bacterial allies too!

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