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International Hyperbaric Accreditation Standards, Paul Buza, Malcolm R. Hooper

International Symposium for Hyperbaric Medicine

• To define the requirements for certification
• To enhance the quality of HBO therapy as it relates to the broad spectrum of pressure ranges DAY 3

The Fda Approved Hbot Indications In Veterinary Medicine And Beyond..., Andrew Turkell

International Symposium for Hyperbaric Medicine

• This presentation is based on the 14 FDA approved, and sometimes insurance reimbursable, HBOT indications in humans and how they are extrapolated into veterinary medicine and utilized for very similar indications in the animal world.
• We will also discuss a much larger group of indications that are not approved in the USA but approved internationally (off label), which may have more compelling scientific evidence than exists for the approved indications.

Value And Impact Of Hyperbaric Medicine In The Treatment Of Brain And Spinal Cord Injuries In Veterinary Patients, Robert Hancock

International Symposium for Hyperbaric Medicine

• To realize hyperbaric oxygen treatments have a beneficial and protective effect in acute spinal cord and brain injury.
• To understand that administration of hyperbaric oxygen both preoperatively and postoperatively, can allow for faster neurological recoveries to ambulation and an improved prognosis in dogs.

Veterinary Hbot Clinical Rounds And Case Studies, Loren Nations, Diane Levitan

International Symposium for Hyperbaric Medicine

• To better understand the use of hyperbaric oxygen in species other than humans.
• To fully appreciate the similarities and differences in the use of HBOT for animals and humans.

Benefits Of Interprofessional Education Between Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner And Dentistry Students, Oksana Prodan

DNP Qualifying Manuscripts

Background: Interprofessional Education (IPE) is mandated for accreditation in health professional schools. IPE between Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) and dentistry students have been developed to improve health oral systemic health outcomes and improve inter-professional practice competencies.

Method: Literature on APRN dental IPE was searched was searched via CINAHL Complete from 2007-2018, looking for scholarly journals, English language. The search was narrowed from 55 to three relevant, data-based studies.

Results: Review of literature produced one study demonstrating benefits of IPE for both APRN and dentistry students, one study only focused on benefits for APRN students, and another IPE article was …

Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - August 12, 2018, Lindsey Lyle

Watercooler Newsletter

This is the August 12, 2018 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine's newsletter - Watercooler.

Contents Include:

• Mark Your Calendar: USA Lions Club Hosting 6th Annual 5K Race and Fun Run
• Alabama Board of Medical Examiners to Present 'Ensuring Quality in Collaborative Practice'
• APP Quarterly Meeting Set for Aug. 21
• USA College of Medicine Welcomes the Class of 2022
• USA Health Welcomes New Resident Physicians

Pubh 6533– Epidemiology, Jessica Smith Schwind

College of Public Health: Faculty Syllabi (2014-2021)

This course provides an introduction to many important topics in epidemiology for public health practice, including but not limited to the evolution of the discipline, causal concepts in the natural history of disease, critical features of infectious and chronic diseases, elements of public health screening, basic measures used in epidemiology, design of epidemiologic investigations, consideration of random error and systematic bias, calculation and interpretation of confidence intervals and p values, discussion of confounding and interaction, criteria for evaluation of cause and effect relationships and the implications for ethical public health practice. Students are expected to gain a foundation in epidemiologic …

Pubh 7090– One Health, Jessica Smith Schwind

College of Public Health: Faculty Syllabi (2014-2021)

Our world is becoming increasingly connected due to globalization. As a result, challenges arise that directly affect human, animal, and environmental health. One Health is an integrated approach that focuses on improving communication and collaboration across human, animal, and environmental health sectors. Because emerging infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, climate change, and food safety represent a significant threat to health across all populations, the One Health approach is increasingly important to our comprehensive understanding of and response to global health challenges. This course will provide students an introduction to One Health and the skills needed to address issues at the human-animal-environmental …

Pubh 7090 – Public Health Practice Trends, Gulzar H. Shah

College of Public Health: Faculty Syllabi (2014-2021)

Today’s public health landscape is increasingly complex and constantly changing. This course focuses on emerging trends and challenges in public health practice that epitomize the increasing complexity and nature of challenges facing public health practitioners.

Pubh 7090-B Spatial Analysis And Health, Jeffery A. Jones

College of Public Health: Faculty Syllabi (2014-2021)

This course will introduce students to geographic information systems (GIS) to map and spatially analyze public health and demographic data. Students will learn the fundamentals of the ArcMap software system and ways to integrate cartography into biomedical informatics practice. Beyond use of GIS for cartography, this course will also examine ethical issues and methods of analyzing demographic and spatial health patterns using GIS and demography analysis methods. The versatility of GIS in a public health setting will be examined and will include exercises involving GIS applications in health marketing, demography, epidemiology, and health care systems. For example, we will look …

Pubh 7132 – Scientific Basis Of Public Health, Haresh Rochani

College of Public Health: Faculty Syllabi (2014-2021)

This course explores the scientific basis of 21st century disease processes including a survey of the origins, natural history, factors influencing individual and community risk. Clinical symptoms of diseases impacting humans, both acute and chronic, as well as epidemiologic trends will be also be discussed. Students will obtain an understanding of scientific mechanisms associated with the disease processes with particular focus on using this information in health-related professions and public health decision-making. As such, emphasis will be placed on the understanding and application of proposing community-based solutions designed to break the cycle of disease.

Pubh 7890 -- Directed Individual Study, Logan Cowan

College of Public Health: Faculty Syllabi (2014-2021)

Provides the student with an opportunity to investigate an area of interest under the direction of a faculty mentor.

Pubh 7890 – Directed Independent Study, Jian Zhang

College of Public Health: Faculty Syllabi (2014-2021)

Provides the student with an opportunity to investigate an area of interest under the direction of a faculty mentor

Pubh 8136: Theoretical Perspectives Of The Social And Behavioral Sciences In Public Health, Stacy W. Smallwood

College of Public Health: Faculty Syllabi (2014-2021)

This course will explore social and behavioral science theories, models, and approaches that inform public health research and practice, as well as their philosophical foundations. With emphasis on an ecological perspective, students will apply relevant theories to understanding community health issues and to developing interventions. The course also examines social and behavioral determinants of health equity across the ecological spectrum. In this course, students will gain an enhanced understanding of the contributions of the social and behavioral sciences to public health.

Force-Time Differences Between Ballistic And Non-Ballistic Half-Squats, Timothy J. Suchomel, Christopher B. Taber, Christopher J. Sole, Michael H. Stone

ETSU Faculty Works

The purpose of this study was to examine the force-time differences between concentric-only half-squats (COHS) performed with ballistic (BAL) or non-ballistic (NBAL) intent across a range of loads. Eighteen resistance-trained men performed either BAL or NBAL COHS at 30%, 50%, 70%, and 90% of their one repetition maximum (1RM) COHS. Relative peak force (PF) and relative impulse from 0–50 ms (Imp50), 0–90 ms (Imp90), 0–200 ms (Imp200), and 0–250 ms (Imp250) were compared using a series of 2 × 4 (intent × load) repeated measures ANOVAs with Bonferroni post hoc tests. Cohen’s d effect sizes were calculated to provide measures …

Pubh 6535: Theoretical Perspectives Of The Social & Behavioral Sciences In Public Health, Stacy W. Smallwood

College of Public Health: Faculty Syllabi (2014-2021)

This course is designed to familiarize students with the history and current applications of social and behavioral sciences as they are applied to public health practice and research. It explores social and behavioral science models, theories, and approaches that inform public health, and their philosophical roots. The course also examines social and behavioral determinants of health equity across the ecological spectrum. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking skills to help students synthesize and utilize information in research and practice. An important contribution of this course is the emphasis on recognizing the contributions of social and behavioral science research and practice …

Pubh 5520-01f/5520g-01f– Introduction To Public Health Online (2 Credits), Katie M. Mercer

College of Public Health: Faculty Syllabi (2014-2021)

This course is designed to give students a foundation in the core functions of the population-based public health (assessment, policy development and assurance). In addition, this course will examine the 10 essential services of public health within these core functions. Defining effective public health practice and providing knowledge about the technical, social, and political parameters related to public health research and practice are goals for this class. Students will gain an understanding of public health as a broad area of work that applies the benefits of current biomedical, environmental, social, and behavioral knowledge in ways that maximize the health status …

A Rare Case Of Spontaneous Cardiac Tamponade Induced By Concomitant Use Of Rivaroxaban And Amiodarone., Oreoluwa Oladiran, Jared Segal, Ifeanyi Nwosu, Salik Nazir

Reading Hospital Internal Medicine Residency

Rivaroxaban is a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) approved as an important alternative to warfarin in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. We report the case of an 87-year-old man with past medical history of nonvalvular atrial fibrillation on rivaroxaban and recently started amiodarone for pulseless ventricular tachycardia who presented to our hospital with intermittent chest pain and was diagnosed with spontaneous hemopericardium causing cardiac tamponade. The culprit drugs were discontinued, and the patient was treated with emergent pericardiocentesis. Both rivaroxaban and amiodarone are substrates for the CYP3A4 hepatic pathway, and concomitant use can result in increased plasma rivaroxaban levels causing an …

Pubh 6541 – Biostatistics, Haresh Rochani

College of Public Health: Faculty Syllabi (2014-2021)

This course examines statistics in public health and related sciences, including sampling, probability, basic discrete and continuous distributions, descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, categorical data analysis, regression, and correlation. Emphasis will be on the development of critical thinking skills and health data analysis applications with computer software.

Pubh 5520/5520g – Introduction To Public Health (2 Credits), Katie M. Mercer

College of Public Health: Faculty Syllabi (2014-2021)

This course is designed to give students a foundation in the core functions of the population-based public health (assessment, policy development and assurance). In addition, this course will examine the 10 essential services of public health within these core functions. Defining effective public health practice and providing knowledge about the technical, social, and political parameters related to public health research and practice are goals for this class. Students will gain an understanding of public health as a broad area of work that applies the benefits of current biomedical, environmental, social, and behavioral knowledge in ways that maximize the health status …

Improving Rates Of Hpv Vaccination In The Pediatric Primary Care Setting, Angelica Hernandez

Master's Projects and Capstones

Although the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has been approved and recommended by the FDA and other vaccine experts for over a decade, the national uptake rate of the HPV vaccine has remained below the Healthy People 2020 goal of 80% (OFPHP, 2018). In 2016, the clinic’s completion rate for the HPV series was only 27.7% among 11- to 13-year-olds, which was not only below national targets, but also below the organization’s completion rate goal of 30.4%. In 2017, the clinic implemented the HPV Vaccination Improvement Project and was able to increase their completion rates up to 31.1%, which surpassed the …

Improving Communication: Huddling For Change, Harnoor Chahal

Master's Theses

The purpose of this communication improvement project is to incorporate huddles between interdisciplinary departments within a microsystem in order to improve customer satisfaction by decreasing the number of grievances. Based on the increasing number of grievances due to delayed hospital discharge, which results from a lack of communication between team members, there is an increased need for communication between the microsystem. By implementing weekly huddles between the Inpatient and Outpatient nurses, not only will there be increased care-coordination, but there will also be a decreased delay in discharge from the hospital caused by missed or no communication. Evidence-based practice indicates …

Enhance Nurse-Physician Communication, Samira Samimi

Master's Projects and Capstones

Abstract

Communication is the soul of healthcare, without it, the microsystem cannot survive. There are many disciplines in healthcare, in order for safe and effective care to be delivered strong communication is key. With initiatives taken, there is always room for improvement where gaps can be identified. In particular, a gap in communication between night shift nurses and primary care physicians. According to the CRICO Strategies (2015) there has been a $1.7 billion-dollar loss and 2,000 deaths in healthcare nationally as a result of miscommunication. Poor communication has serious devastating effects if it is not corrected promptly. The duty of …

Hbot: An Essential Component For The Regenerative Treatment Of Pain From Sports Injuries, Chronic Inflammation And Infection, John Hughes

International Symposium for Hyperbaric Medicine

This lecture will present the science behind using the synergistic combination of hyperbaric oxygen with stem cell (VSELs) and oxidative IV therapies for chronic pain. I will also present case studies for patients suffering from chronic pain from sports injuries, degenerative, inflammatory, or infections conditions.

Endothelium, Extracellular Matrix And Cytoskeleton In Wound Healing, E. Cuauhtémoc Sanchez

International Symposium for Hyperbaric Medicine

• Describe the importance of cytoskeleton and extracellular matrix in wound healing
• Analyze the geometry and function of the extracellular matrix and cytoskeleton in wound healing

Therapeutic Synergy With Hyperbaric Medicine: Clinical Experiences In Enhancing Hbot Effects, Paul Anderson

International Symposium for Hyperbaric Medicine

Although very little is currently published regarding the use of synergists with HBOT it is an area of great clinical curiosity. For example some animal data using oxidative IV therapies in conjunction with HBOT which showed benefit have had to be modified when transferred to human protocols. Other therapies which have shown theoretical promise have exhibited synergy with HBOT and are emerging as future directions to clinically augment the benefits of HBOT.

Clinical Presentation Non-Cme: Improving Patient Outcomes By Adding Ionic Detoxification To Hyperbaric Therapy, David Dornfeld

International Symposium for Hyperbaric Medicine

No abstract provided.

Tumor Biology And Hyperbaric Oxygen: Differential Effects In Tumor Versus Normal Tissues, Paul Anderson

International Symposium for Hyperbaric Medicine

When assessing the potential benefits of HBOT in oncology patients occasional confusion arises when extrapolating the cytokine, epigenetic and other effects of HBOT in non-cancerous tissues (neurological and other injuries etc.) versus those in cancerous tissues. This confusion often results in misinterpretation of data and concern over potential harm in HBOT oncology cases. The focus of this presentation is to point out the data supporting these differences as we know it to date and underscore the benefits while decreasing this clinical confusion.

Ischemia Reperfusion Injury: The New Frontier For Wound Healing & Hbot, Jeffrey A. Niezgoda

International Symposium for Hyperbaric Medicine

This session will introduce the attendee to the impact of oxygen free radicals on wound healing. Ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) and oxygen free radicals are defined and the basic chemistry surrounding reactive oxygen species (ROS) will be discussed. Detailed analysis of the inflammatory phase of wound healing and the role of oxygen free radicals in inflammation are presented.

Hyperbaric Oxygen In Neonates, E. Cuauhtémoc Sanchez

International Symposium for Hyperbaric Medicine

• Describe the importance of cytoskeleton and extracellular matrix in wound healing
• Analyze the geometry and function of the extracellular matrix and cytoskeleton in wound healing