Jim Downs, author of Sick From Freedom, explains how a mobile population, unsanitary conditions, inadequate medicine, and war combined to spread illness and sickness among soldiers and refugee slaves.
Jim Downs is Assistant Professor of History and American Studies at Connecticut College and the author of Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Welcome to another edition of TheSynapse eLearning series where we discuss the topic of vaccines and vaccine preventable illness.
In this edition we are proud to have Dr Mark Muscat who is a public health specialist with long experience working in the field of epidemiology and surveillance of communicable diseases. During eight years of work at the Statens Serum Institut of Denmark. Dr Muscat co-ordinated the vaccine-preventable disease (VPD) network EUVAC.NET and issued regular surveillance reports. Created the format for and moderated the updating of national vaccination schedules of all 32 EUVAC.NET-participating countries. Moderated the EUVAC.NET forum for VPD outreak reporting and was the scientific and logistic organizer of the network’s annual meetings. He also collaborated with various gatekeepers in scientific publications on measles and rubella. He also worked for one year in the Department of Antibiotic Resistance and Hygiene and contributed to publications on antibiotic usage and the DANMAP report 2003. He was part of the team working in the Vaccine-preventable Diseases and Immunisation Unit for 2 years especially in the field of measles and rubella elimination. Video Rating: / 5
Please see our most recent update to vaping associated lung injury (on Vitamin E Acetate and the CDC update) here: https://youtu.be/Y8USqAzo2HA
Vaping & E-Cigarette related illnesses & deaths have gathered significant media attention. Join Dr. Seheult of https://www.MedCram.com as he illustrates key points about vaping and E cigarette-related acute pulmonary illness & disease symptoms, diagnosis, CXR, and CT scan findings that we understand at this time. More information and studies are needed as vaping deaths and hospitalizations in 2019 continue to rise (some are calling it a “vaping epidemic”). See the second video in this series on the treatment of vaping associated pulmonary injury: https://youtu.be/7TO7Cfi_o38.
See our updated video on vaping associated lung injury here (on Vitamin E Acetate and the CDC update): https://youtu.be/Y8USqAzo2HAon (November 19, 2019)
Links to articles from the New England Journal of Medicine referenced in this video:
Pulmonary Illness Related to E-Cigarette Use in Illinois and Wisconsin — Preliminary Report: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1911614
Instructor: Roger Seheult, MD
Co-Founder of MedCram.com
Clinical and Exam Preparation Instructor
Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine.
Visit https://www.MedCram.com for top-rated medical videos, over 30 hours of category 1 CME and CE, and over 100 free lectures.
MedCram: Medical education topics explained clearly including: Respiratory lectures such as Asthma, COPD, and vape / E cigarette related lung disease. Renal lectures on Acute Renal Failure and Adrenal Gland. Internal medicine videos on Oxygen Hemoglobin Dissociation Curve and Medical Acid Base. A growing library on critical care topics such as Shock, Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA), and Mechanical Ventilation. Cardiology videos on Hypertension, ECG / EKG Interpretation, and heart failure. VQ Mismatch and Hyponatremia lectures have been popular among medical students and physicians. The Pulmonary Function Tests (PFTs) videos and Ventilator-associated pneumonia bundles and lectures have been particularly popular with RTs. NPs and PAs have given great feedback on Pneumonia Treatment and Liver Function Tests among many others. Dr. Jacquet teaches our FAST exam tutorial & bedside ultrasound courses. Many nursing students have found the Asthma and shock lectures very helpful. We’re starting a new course series on clinical ultrasound/ultrasound medical imaging.
Recommended Audience – Medical professionals and medical students: including physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, respiratory therapists, EMT and paramedics, and many others. Review and test prep for USMLE, MCAT, PANCE, NCLEX, NAPLEX, NBDE, RN, RT, MD, DO, PA, NP school and board examinations.
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Daniel Ament, whose lungs were irreversibly damaged after using e-cigarettes, is now urging others to stop vaping.
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The illness and injury vocabulary presentation teaches many common ailments and symptoms such as cough, sore throat, rash, fever, blister, and bruise. More health related teaching materials can be found at https://bogglesworldesl.com/kids_worksheets/health.htm Video Rating: / 5
