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- Kissing HPV or Kissing It Goodbye: Time To Reinvent Mass Media Strategy To Increase Acceptance Of HPV Vaccination Among Parents And Their Young Wards
My opinion: As physicians, some of us first encountered the plight of human papillomavirus (HPV) among their patients once they moved across the continents. Surprisingly, those first observed episodes were among toddlers and even infants presenting for surgical management of recurrent respiratory/laryngeal papillomatosis under..
- Simplest definition of "CAGE" abuse: Whenever freedom to quit is absent, abuse is happening
My opinion: Perception of abuse in human terms happens when a human wants to quit and move away from a situation but cannot quit and move away [1]. Perpetuation of violence in human terms happens when a human must quit and move away from the abusive situation but does not quit and move away from that abusive situation. The co..
- Can induction of general anesthesia with propofol and/or delivery of baby with cesarean section convert maternal atrial fibrillation into maternal sinus rhythm?
Case Report: There have been some case reports about propofol being antiarrhythmic [1-2]. Herein, after obtaining patient's informed and written consent, we want to share a case history wherein when delivery of baby with cesarean section happened immediately (within four minutes) after induction of general anesthesia with pr..
- Effect of COVID-19 Misinformation Among Adults of the Southern U.S.
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic is the worst health crisis in the world in the last 100 years with devastating effects on human lives and with severe economic and social disruption. Unfortunately there is a lot of misinformation about COVID-19, which is disseminated widely in social media. Misinformation is highly prevalent glob..
- Will Medically Consulting Anesthesiologists Supersede Medically Supervising Anesthesiologists And Replace Medically Directing Anesthesiologists?
My opinion: I am deciding to not wait for my early/normal/late and forced/unforced retirement to ask the question [1] which may heal anesthesiology, the Fisher King. The healing question "Whom does the Grail serve?" [2] has been and will always be wide open to interpretations depending on who, why, when and where. For me as a ..
- Can Long Straw Sipper Bottle Keep Masked Flyers Calm During Long-Haul Flights? It Maybe Worth Investigating
My opinion: Incidents of bad behavior during flights are growing most likely due to the mandates to wear masks. These badly behaving flyers may blame it all on their intolerance to wearing masks especially during long-haul flights. The critics of these badly behaving flyers may blame it all on these flyers' belief systems p..
- Tele-Kin Against Addiction
My opinion: I had a dream. I thought that I will pursue addiction medicine. But, in the absence of pursuit and execution [1], this vision has turned into a hallucination. I had a dream. I thought that healthcare will evolve into telemedicine-only model [2]. But, to keep the dying status quo breathing [3], in-person healthcare mode..
- Are Fecal Capsules As Pro-Biotic Making The Case For Seminal Capsules As Anti-Eclamptic? Worth Exploring For The Future Of Safer Assisted Reproductive Technology
My opinion: The questions we must ask ourselves. Is human body composed of not only human cells but also non-human cells like microbes numbering in trillions [1]? Do these microbes turn human gastrointestinal tract into the biggest immune system that human body has [1-2]? Have modern human beings learnt to lose their microbiome b..
- Is It Apophenic Bet on Bats to Search for SARS-CoV-0 as Prequel and Prepare for SARS-CoV-X as Sequel to COVID-19 Pandemic?
My opinion: My imagination has always run wild but it is running amok since COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, the question bugging me is “if pandemic had started with bat-consumption [1-2], will pandemic end with bat-consumption too?” as if lyrics penned by Qateel Shifai and sung by Jagjit Singh that translate as “He/She/It who/..
- GO PRONE With Shithilaasana: Can Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound Confirm If Good Lobe/Segment Down Turns SARS-CoV-2 Inflamed Bad Lobe/Segment Into Zone-1 With Dead Space Ventilation Shutting Off Blood Flow Through Microemboli-Throwing Pulmonary Arteriovenous Channels Functionally Opened By SARS-CoV-2 In Bad Lobe/Segment?
My opinion: Physiologically, humans just like animals involuntary adjust their postures and positions so that they can easily breathe without giving much thought as to how they are adjusting and adapting their postures and positions to keep that ease in their breathing. Although respiratory physiology may seem too complex even to ..
- A cross-sectional analysis of the motivational factors that influence students of diverse backgrounds to study medicine-exploratory study
Abstract : Background Students apply to study medicine with intrinsic motives of genuine interest and sheer passion about the subject (intrinsic motivation) or external motives such as status, or family endorsement (controlled motivation). Pertinent to the motivation; intrinsic versus controlled motivation, students’ adaptation..
- EGFR TKIs IN NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER: HEAD AND TAIL OF THE COIN
Abstract : TKIs against the human EGFR have become standard of care for patients with advanced EGFR mutant NSCLC. But despite the initial good results with first generation EGFR TKIs, patients’ cancers will progress after a median duration of response of around 12 months. And some patient will not even show response or only for..
- Health Care Infinity: Prohibit Regulate Normalize
My opinion: Humanity should look much further beyond short-term vision for Health Care 2030 [1] because existential questions are so many and answers to them are so few, if any, when some do everything and some do nothing while few, if any, relish the endgame to exist in matrix. What have been the primary gains to the humanity du..
- Worth Investigating The Changes (If Any) In The Misnomer "Wind-Chill" Effect Of Noses Among Masked Workers, Intubated Patients and Laryngectomy Patients
Origin Of Hypothesis: As elicited in my opinion [1] for the resourceful readers to consider researching and exploring the theorized and envisaged pathophysiological phenomena, I am sharing my thoughts on how to investigate nasopharyngeal temperatures changing among masked workers, intubated patients and laryngectomy patients to validate or ..
- My Personal Nobel Panacea: Curative Masks And Peacekeeping Pill
My opinion: I will outrightly share however outrageous of a dream I have always had. I had a dream that one day I will hold or hand Nobel. However, I never chose a path to specialization that could have fulfilled that dream. Yet, I had an impossible dream. Although I have a dream that may never be fulfilled, there is a reality tha..
- Dirty Urinals/Toilets And Urinary Tract Inflammation/Infection: Worth Investigating If It Can Be True Due To Urinary Aerosols In Urinals/Toilets
Origin of Hypothesis: Since current pandemic dawned, we have been wearing masks and avoiding infectious aerosols even in the urinals/toilets, especially when using the shared urinals/toilets. Although masks can curtail the inhalation of aerosols generated in urinals/toilets, the aerosols contaminating the perineum cannot be avoided..
- Personal journey of in-mask nasopharyngeal temperature: Is it time to investigate whether one-year of pandemic mitigation measures has induced nasopharyngeal cellular changes detectable by narrow-band imaging and/or contact endoscopy?
My opinion: Unlike rare personalities who are able to do what they say [1], I am just like any other biological/non-biological algorithm-bound living thing who despite being physically free [2], will always be a prisoner of my thoughts. I used to sympathize with those who can't or won't wear masks during pandemic. Now I envy th..
- The Missing Link At Anesthesia Induction: Excessive Dynamic Airway Collapse
My opinion: As an anesthesia provider, it has always bewildered me that despite visual confirmation of endotracheal tube’s passage across the vocal cords on video-laryngoscopy, capnography confirmation on the anesthesia monitor is sometimes delayed by few-to-many breaths. This delayed appearance of end-tidal carbon dioxide can b..
- "It's poverty, Covid"
My opinion: In 1990s, James Carville said that it is all about economy whichever way one looks at it [1]. Essentially, economy has evolved as a guise for food energy because food energy for individual’s survival requires individual’s society’s economic growth. Now the question arises whether food energy availability is modif..
- Idiopathic Postoperative Paresis: Know The Unknown
Case Report(s): Postoperative paresis can be frustrating when aetiology is unclear. Herein, after obtaining written and informed consents, we are presenting perioperative hospital course of two patients with “idiopathic” postoperative paresis. Case One: 31-year-old multigravida female presented to labour and delivery suite in ac..
- Investigate In-Mask Temperature As A Surrogate Indicator Of Potentially "Therapeutic" Nasopharyngeal Temperature Denoting Masks' Therapeutic Efficiency To Complement Masks' Filtration Efficiency Against SARS-CoV-2 And Its Variants
My opinion: Abundance of information leading to abundance of interpretation leads to abundance of misunderstanding thus creating a double jeopardy preventing the true understanding of information. Herein, I am sharing my interpretation hoping to correct the misunderstanding unless my understanding of the ever-changing situation ma..
- My In-Mask Micro-Climate's Hot And Humid Efficiency
My opinion: Since the dawn of COVID-19 pandemic, I have been personally exploring my masks’ ambiance. After documenting in-mask heat and humidity objectively determined with Hygrochron iButton DS1923 in my face covering [1], I had been wondering whether my in-mask micro-climate will differ (A) if simple mask vs. valved mask vs. ..
- The Effects of Wet Cupping on White Blood Cells Count: A Retrospective Study
Introduction: Background: Wet cupping is the process of using a vacuum at different points on the body but with incisions in order to remove 'harmful' blood, which lies just beneath the surface of the skin. Cupping can be used on the neck, shoulders, back, sacral area, hip, abdomen, thigh, upper arms, and calves 1. Although there ..
- Triple negative breast cancer under neoadjuvant treatment: the role of assessment ultrasound.
Abstract : Triple-negative breast cancer is a separate entity that comprises several molecular subtypes driven by specific genetic alterations that might potentially be targeted. However, currently most patients continue to receive standard chemotherapy regimens. Neoadjuvant treatment is accepted for larger tumours and locally ad..
- Can Audiometry/Tympanometry Unravel If Our Masks Not Allowing Our Ear Drums To Vibrate Freely?
My Opinion: It happens to be a chance real observation and a chance theoretical interpretation. It is just an amusing tell-tale that what people are saying and what we are hearing is not exactly the same when they or we especially when they and we are wearing masks. So, the question arises how the masks are affecting our hearing [..
- Does Pre-Extubation Nasal Air Flow Attenuate Emergence Delirium Among Pediatric Surgical Patients? A Worth Exploring Envisaged Randomized Controlled Trial
Origin Of Hypothesis: The role of air flow across nasal passage and paranasal sinuses in relation to keeping the brain cool is often debated [1]. Similarly, the role of brain temperature in relation to cognition, sleep and delirium is also debated [2-4]. Therefore, anesthesiologists have a simple opportunity to explore, investigate and docu..
- Worth Investigating: Sunbathing (Sunfacial) With Masks On (SUMA) For Cleansing "Cold" Viruses
My Hypothesis: It is my opinion that as SARS-CoV-2 is mutating into new variants complicating the ongoing raging pandemic, it remains to be seen whether transmissibility of mutating viruses makes their virulence irrelevant when determining their pathogenic potential considering that globally human bodies have had already developed to..
- Questions Worth Raising: Automated Writing Evaluations And Legacy Admissions
My opinion: As medical education researchers, we have a vision and that is why we are raising these questions. Can automated writing evaluations of personal statement help in objective assessments of applications? Can legacy admissions be objectively streamlined in graduate medical education?..
- Tape Fixture Or Phone Holder To Stably Hold Probe For Continuous Transthoracic Echocardiography
My opinion: Analogous to old-school air-tight chest tube dressing, transthoracic echocardiography probe (wireless or portable or standard) can be fixed to the chest with silk or cloth tape as demonstrated on the mannequin (Figure A). This no-cost method had been originally envisaged by our team to potentially investigate and poten..
- Is Adversity Creating An Opportunity?
My opinion: Rather than being my opinion, the below-mentioned are just my questions. Are undesirable effects of labor epidural analgesia essentially due to it exposing materno-fetal homeostasis to exogenous substances during intra-partum period [1]? While the multidisciplinary medical society gears up to initiate research to valid..
- Does Being Child-Free While Dying-Mean To Eventually Eco-Decompose Preemptively Palliate The Climate Emergency?
My opinion: It is my opinion that the Climate Emergency as humanity’s precipice warrants resourceful adaptations in environmental activism by inventing public opinion rather than investigating public opinion if it wants to emulate the sweeping success of political conservatism globally [1-3]. We have always talked about preventi..
- Until Advancing Age Gets Reversed With A Pinch Of Salt, Usage Duration Of Mask Trinity As Universal Precaution Against Discrimination
My opinion: I am raising the following questions: Can omnipotent cells in young age sera overcome aging to reverse the advancing age which has turned out to be a major risk factor for COVID-19 related morbidity and mortality? Can salt-impregnated masks inactivating pathogens make a case for salt itself as an administration vehicle..
- Futuristic On-The-Job Fellowships
My opinion: My opinion has a backstory. I graduated from Anesthesiology Residency Program almost a decade ago. Initially, I pursued Pain Medicine Fellowship, but I did not succeed. Once I started my job, I abandoned my pursuit for fellowship. However, amidst the opioid epidemic, I considered pursuing Addiction Medicine Fellowship...
- Conscientious Objection to The Necessity of Unnecessary Healthcare Bubble
My opinion: Sommer et al. should be congratulated for exploring multifaceted effects on patients secondary to cancellations/postponements of interventions [1]. However, the follow-up question should have been: If non-emergency interventions’ completion had been necessary within a certain stipulated time frames, they might not ha..
- COVID-19 Pandemic: An Opportunity for Public Health Learning
My opinion: Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic is indeed the most critical global incident for many decades. It has touched almost all humans, regardless of their race, gender, age, socioeconomic status or educational level (1). Although the influence of the pandemic on our lives was variable, nobody was protected. By the ..
- Diffusion of Innovation and Health Messages during COVID-19 pandemic : A South Africa case study
Abstract : Health messages are indispensable in public health; they are the connection between health experts, researchers and communities. The purpose of this case study is to assess the current health messages used to curb COVID-19 transmission in South Africa. The study also compared the SA health messages to best practices in..
- NOT Hate Masks; Just Investigate Them Regarding: Fungal Rhino-Sinusitis, Catabolic Myo-Arthralgia, Schoolchildren's Cognition, Sclerosis's Temperature And Disability Sabbatical
My opinion: Love and hate are powerful words which are often overused to make or break the case for what we love or what we hate. Personally, I have never loved masks even when they now seem “therapeutic” to me against pathogens like SARS-CoV-2 [1-2]. However, I cannot hate their non-physiological micro-environments [3] becaus..
- RECURRENT PULMONARY EMBOLISM IN METASTATIC BREAST CANCER: RESPONDING TO A DOSE REDUCTION OF ANTICANCER TREATMENT
Abstract: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a major complication in cancer patients despite anticoagulation. In fact this is the second cause of death in them, only behind the malignancy itself. Therefore, optimal treatment is crucial. Low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) and direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) have been included as..
- Communicating COVID-19 prevention Health Messages: A case study of South Africa
Abstract : Abstract: Health messages are indispensable in public health; they are the connection between health experts, researchers and communities. The purpose of this case study is to assess the current health messages used to curb COVID-19 transmission in South Africa. The study also compared the SA health messages to best p..
- Can Bat-Gown, Bat-Sack, Bat-Box Protection Counter Bat-Human Contraption? An Envisaged Idea Triplet
Abstract: Dose of exposure cannot be downplayed whether it is the dose of inanimate chemicals, animate bacteria or viruses somewhere-in-between therein. Therefore, as high infectivity of clinical scenarios unravel during COVID-19 pandemic, Bat-Gown, Bat-Sack and Bat-Box as envisaged idea triplet may play a role to counter Bat-Hu..
- The Legend of Kalidasa Inspiring To Phase Out Overspecialization: Skills vs. Degrees
My opinion: There is a well-known legend about ancient Sanskrit scholar, Kalidasa. Before evolving into an acclaimed literary giant, he was supposedly a dimwit as depicted by him sawing the tree branch on which he was sitting [1]. However, there can be an alternate interpretation to the legend. Instead of sawing it, Kalidasa might..
- Non-Circumferential "Tourniquet" for Neck Vein Cannulation
My opinion: To engorge neck veins for cannulation, proceduralists (a) turn patients into Trendelenburg position and/or (b) ask patients to hold breath and/or (c) passively raise patients’ leg and/or (d) ask assistants to apply supraclavicular occlusive digital pressure just proximal to – towards heart – site of venous cannul..
- Artless solution to resolve the problem of retention in resorbed alveolar ridge cases
Abstract : Rarely maxillary completely edentulous ridges resorb to the extent where they pose a challenge to a prosthodontist. However, whenever they resorb, they definitely alter patient compliance towards dent..
- Can the Occlus-o-guide be used in mixed dentition as interceptive therapy of Class II? A literature review
Abstract : The Occlus-o-guide is an elastodontic Eruption Guide Appliance, which could achieve the ideal occlusion by exploiting the natural forces of growth to obtain harmonic occlusion in a balanced craniofacial context. This study is a literature review and was conducted in order to know if the Occlus-o-guide can be used as an..
- Can COVID-19 Pandemic Invent Redesigned Electric Microcars To Be Parked Inside Workplaces As Mask-Vacation Pods?
Abstract: Non-physiological in-mask microclimates may require mask-vacation pods as safe-spaces for workers to break away from masks during COVID-19 pandemic...
- N99 Neck Masks for Neck Breathers
My opinion: Neck breathers may have air movement across tracheoesophageal puncture/fistula or laryngopharynx during vocalization leading to aerosols exiting via nasopharynx and oropharynx [1]. Therefore, neck breathers wear facemasks during COVID-19 pandemic as depicted by masked mannequin (Figure 1: pink arrowheads). However, nec..
- Are There Fatalities Due To Delayed Statewide Mandatory Mask Use Orders?
My opinion: It is a Pandora’s Box which Yehya et al [1] and Auger et al [2] have opened in the midst of global pandemic because although SARS-CoV-2 as a pathogen knows and follows no boundaries, local, regional and national policies may have created non-scientific boundaries with fractured global response becoming an obstacle to..
- Our Antrum: Empty, Filled, Full
My opinion: Inability to quantify gastric fullness preoperatively can be very frustrating for anesthesiologists. This is especially more so while managing gastrointestinal endoscopies, firstly because gastrointestinal endoscopies are primarily performed under moderate sedation with unprotected airways, and secondly because endosco..
- Metastatic colon cancer: is rechallenging still an option beyond second line? A quick review.
Abstract : Metastatic colorectal cancer continues to be very frequent and although the improvements in its systemic treatment throughout the past decade have been noticeable, much needs still to be done. Patients’ survival has been prolonged with good quality of life, being still suitable for further treatment, thus further opt..
- Young Females and Cerebral Venous Thrombosis
Abstract : Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT), is an under diagnosed condition for acute or slowly progressive neurological deficit. CVT has a wide spectrum of signs and symptoms, which may evolve suddenly or over the weeks. It is clinically challenging and mimics neurological conditions, such as: meningitis, encephalopathy, benign..
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