Tag: Common sense

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Never sprinkle salt on the wound.

Today, I saw a piece of news on a popular microblog: A mother sprinkled salt on the wound of her one-year-old daughter who had just been scalded by boiling water because she heard that saline can diminish inflammation. As a result, the doctor gave her a notice of critical illness. According to netizens’ comments, when I was a child, my mother sprinkled salt, vinegar, soy sauce, flour, garlic and sesame oil on my scalds. It sounds like garlic mashed white meat instead of treating scalds. There are also people who apply toothpaste and soap, which are all unreliable methods for scalding. Why can’t salt be sprinkled? People will say that hospitals often use saline to clean wounds? But the hospital Read More …

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Why do you take chest radiographs with fever? Is it crazy for the hospital to think about money?

For many patients, this kind of situation is really not uncommon: [I just have a fever, and the doctors who went to the hospital prescribed chest radiographs and so on without saying a few words. The doctors now are really incompetent and dirty, and they must be trying to earn examination fees.] But is this really the case? Without gossip, since the question mentions fever and chest radiograph, let’s discuss them from these two aspects. First of all, patients who come to see a doctor because of fever will definitely give many physicians headaches. This does not mean that doctors are not up to standard. You know, this is the heartfelt words of the old professor of internal medicine. In Read More …

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The common medical mistakes in those movies

1. Non-key characters in the movie all die too fast. If you are shot in the trunk, stabbed in the stomach and wiped out your neck, you will not be able to move immediately. If this is the case, many people in reality do not need to be rescued. In fact? Death from trauma is a rather tangled process. The only injuries that can really make people stiff immediately are those that hurt the brain or spinal cord, such as head shots, beheadings and spinal cord amputations (hanging, twisting the neck). As for neck wiping, the trachea and carotid artery are seriously injured. Even if one cannot breathe, one will not die immediately. Otherwise, how can we hold our breath? Read More …

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Formula for Calculating Baby Weight

I often see novice mothers asking if their baby’s weight is normal. Too fat or too thin, parents do not have a reference standard. So, for babies of all ages, what kind of weight is normal? You can refer to the following calculation formula to calculate by yourself: Babies within 6 months: weight (kg) = birth weight (kg) + age × 0.6; Babies aged 7 ~ 23 months: weight (kg) = birth weight (kg) + age × 0.5; Babies aged 2 ~ 7: weight (kg) = age × 2 +8. Generally, it is within the range of standard weight ± standard weight × 10%. Exceeding [standard weight + standard weight × 20%] is mild obesity; Exceeding [standard weight + standard Read More …

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Nine Things Should Be Knowing When Doing Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Magnetic resonance imaging has become an increasingly common examination method in hospitals, but the first time you do it, you are always afraid. Sometimes doctors may forget to tell you what to pay attention to and have not had time to ask. At this time, they feel somewhat uneasy. However, knowing the following nine things is no big problem. 1. There was a lot of noise during the inspection. You may hear a lot of noise, like a percussion drill in construction, with a volume of 82-118 decibels, so it is best to wear earplugs in advance. Some people, especially children, may be frightened, so they need to take sedatives to be examined quietly. 2. The examination time may be Read More …

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The list of wise choices issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics

The American Academy of Pediatrics has released two [wise choices] lists of 10 items, listing common unnecessary examinations and treatments in pediatrics. (1) Obvious viral infectious respiratory diseases (sinusitis, Pharyngitis, bronchitis) should not use antibacterial drugs. (2) Cough medicine and cold medicine should not be prescribed or recommended for respiratory diseases in children under 4 years old. (3) CT scan is not necessary for immediate evaluation of mild head trauma. According to the Clinical Observation/Pediatric Emergency Nursing Applied Research Network Standard (PECARN), To determine whether imaging examination is needed. (4) Neuroimaging is not necessary for simple thermal epilepsy (CT, MRI examination. (5) CT scans are not necessary in routine abdominal pain assessment. (6) Do not use large doses of dexamethasone Read More …

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7 Common Medication Errors

According to a recent survey by Lloyds Pharmacy, 46 percent of patients do not take their medicines correctly. [It is estimated that 10 percent of hospitalizations are due to incorrect medication,] said Sultan Dajeni, an expert at the Royal Institute of Medicine Experts such as Dr. Sandipp Barajan, a rheumatologist at the Stabash Hospital in the UK, Paul Litter, a professor at the Primary Health Care Research Department of the University of Southampton in the UK, Nitin Marcartier, a pharmacist at Lloyds Pharmacy in the UK, and Sunil Kochha, a pharmacist at the Pharmacist Information Network, summarized the seven most common mistakes in taking medicine. I. Tablets Break and Take The structure of dosage forms such as sustained-release tablets can Read More …

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How should I register to a big hospital?

When we go to a big hospital to see a doctor, sometimes we are always confused by the names of the departments everywhere in Linglang. It is also a common occurrence to hang up the wrong number. It is very difficult to hang up the number, but the doctor tells you to hang up other departments. Are the departments of these hospitals divided by how, and do ordinary people want how to identify them? Different hospitals have different themes, even if they are general hospitals, due to differences in concepts, there will also be some differences. Also has a great relationship with the distribution of its subject leaders. The top level of the same field in this hospital may lead Read More …

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Why do ambulances always arrive late at the time of first aid?

Recently, in a number of first aid-related incidents, the parties complained about the delay in the arrival of the ambulance. Incident 1: In Shanghai, drunks called 120. After the ambulance arrived, a group of drinkers thought the ambulance arrived too late and beat the emergency personnel with plank bricks and sticks. Incident 2: In Shenzhen, a young man suddenly twitched and suffered cardiac arrest at a subway station. The ambulance drove out within one minute after receiving the call for help and arrived at the scene in 12 minutes. The rescue lasted for about half an hour. Finally, the rescue was ineffective and he died! Family members questioned the arrival of the 120 ambulance too late. Incident 3: Doctor 120 Read More …