A new study finds that brachytherapy, a common procedure that delivers radiation directly to cancer cells, may continue safely, potentially without delay or antibiotics, in cervical cancer patients following uterine perforation.
Torabi is a student in the class of 2023 at the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. He is originally from Camino Del Sur.
One year ago I was stressed, preparing for an exam on the physiology of the gastrointestinal system. The insignificance of that stress seems so far away.
My transition from simply studying to worrying about a virus that was sweeping the world happened so quickly. As medical students, my peers and I went from choosing to lock ourselves down from the outside world to learning about the mechanisms of pathology and the nuances of applied medicine to mandated stay-at-home orders that gave us no choice but to lock down. It seemed fitting that we would be home for two weeks until this virus was controlled. What difference would it make? I was studying persistently I was already locked down.
Lower dose of ketamine is as effective as the standard dose to treat pain in adults
A recent Loyola Medicine study found that reducing the standard dose of IV-administered ketamine in half is as effective as the larger, standard dose in reducing pain in adults.
Ketamine is known to provide pain relief comparable to opioid medications, which are highly addictive. In the recent study, appearing in the journal
Academic Emergency Medicine, researchers studied 98 patients, ages 18 to 59, who presented to the emergency department with acute, moderate to severe pain.
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The patients were randomized prospectively to receive either 0.15 mg/kg of ketamine (low dose) or 0.30 mg/kg (high dose). Patients and providers were blinded to dose, with the primary outcome of pain measured on the 11-point numerical rating scale (NRS) at 30 minutes. At 15 minutes, the high dose group had a greater decrease in pain on the NRS but more adverse events. At 30 minutes, adverse events and pain
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MAYWOOD, Ill., Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Luis A. Fernandez, MD, FACS, is the new division chief, intra-abdominal transplantation at Loyola Medicine. Dr. Fernandez is a world-renowned transplant surgeon specializing in pancreas, liver, islet cell and renal transplantation.
Luis A. Fernandez, MD, FACS, is the new division chief, intra-abdominal transplantation at Loyola Medicine
Dr. Fernandez comes to Loyola from the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics where he was the director of the UW Liver Transplant Program and the co-director of the Islet Cell Transplant Program. He was also a tenured professor of surgery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has made significant regional and national contributions to the field of transplantation as the Region 7 Councilor for the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) and as a member of the UNOS Executive Committee.