TIGARD Share This is not a hypothetical situation.
Last school year, school administrators told Tigard-Tualatin School District nurses on three occasions to work with a medically fragile elementary student who needed her tracheostomy tube suctioned while at school. In each instance, a contract nurse who normally cared for the child was absent.
A district nurse performed the procedure each time, but the nurses said they worried about liability issues that came with handling equipment they were either unfamiliar with or had not inspected. They also said the procedure was not one that they normally came across in their 3,100-student caseloads. Full Post…
NEWBERG, Ore. – Two days after giving birth and having severe complications, an Oregon mom finally got the chance to meet her newborn son with the help of a robot.
Ivonne Cortez and her baby, Bradly were being treated at different Providence hospitals many miles apart after both of their hearts stopped briefly last Sunday.
Now they’re recovering and a robot normally used for stroke victims was set up so Ivonne could see and communicate with little Bradly. She was in a hospital bed at Providence Newberg Hospital and he was in the neonatal unit at Providence St. Vincent in Portland.
The two were able to see each other and mom could even talk to her little boy as dad, Paco also watched from his wife’s side.
“Oh, that’s very beautiful,” Ivonne said as she got her first glimpse of her tiny son. “He looks
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NEW YORK – Zemco Industries, based in Buffalo, New York, has recalled about 380,000 pounds of deli meat that was sold at Walmart stores nationwide.
Officials with the Department of Agriculture said the meat may be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes, a potentially deadly bacterial disease. The listeria was discovered in a retail sample collected by inspectors in Georgia. Th
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ROSEBURG — State health officials and Umpqua Dairy Products have issued a recall due to salmonella contaminations. At least 23 people have been sickened and two have been hospitalized, officials said.
“This outbreak has unfolded slowly and it was just recently that we were able to confirm the matching Salmonella strain in the Umpqua milk plant. The risk to consumers is very low. We have had approximately one illness reported for every million containers that Umpqua has sold during this period,” said Paul Cieslak, M.D., Oregon Public Health Division.
He said the following numbers of people have been infected, by county: Douglas, 6; Marion, 3; Jackson, 3; Lane, 3; Linn, 3; Josephine, 2; Coos, 1; Deschutes, 1; and Klamath, 1. The
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Question: My husband’s dentist placed a dental implant and attached a temporary crown in the same visit. I now need an implant, but my dentist says I have to wait four to six months after the implant is placed before he can attach a crown. Why the difference in treatment methods? – Marla, Boca Raton
Answer: In my 22 years of practice, I have not figured out why so many married couples see different dentists. Is there a specialty of dentistry that I am not aware of called: gynecological dentistry who only treats female teeth? OBGYNDDS.
Excellent bone quality indicates the ability to load the implant immediately with a temporary crown.
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A specific immune-system mechanism underlies the skin rashes caused by contact with nickel, one of the world’s most common allergens.
German researchers have found that in humans, the metal directly activates a member of the family of receptors that act as gatekeepers of innate immunity, the body’s first line of defence against pathogens. Activating this receptor, called Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), generates a ‘danger signal’ that promotes inflammation — causing itching, tenderness, swelling and rashes on the skin — and recruits other immune cells such as T cells to the area.
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