Antiseizure medications in critical care

Psychotropic Medications in Palliative Care

Palliative care, as both a movement and a medical subspecialty, has grown over time from a small hospice movement focusing on the care of the actively dying to a clinical specialty focusing on symptom control and provision of support to those living with chronic, life-threatening illnesses in addition to those at the end of their lives.1 Given the burden of disease these patients face, it is pe...

Ketone Bodies Mediate Antiseizure Effects

Investigators from The Barrow Neurological Institute, Creighton University, University of Kentucky and the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine investigated the effect of ketone bodies and the ketogenic diet on epileptic Kcna1-null mice.

Psychotropic medications for elders in residential care.

Children in Foster Care and Excessive Medications

Children in foster care system are more likely to receive diagnoses of major mental illness and to be medicated with powerful medications such as antipsychotic drugs. Reasons for the increased risk of the actual mental illnesses and for the diagnoses of illness among children in foster care are reviewed. The reliabilities of various diagnoses are considered. The legitimacy of the rationale for ...

Critical Thinking Skills and Critical Thinking Dispositions in Freshmen and Senior Students of Health Care Management

Introduction: Nowadays, experts introduce critical thinking as the main outcome of higher education and consider teaching "how to think" as the basis for learning. This study compares the critical thinking skills and critical thinking dispositions in freshmen and senior students of health care management. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was performed on a sample of 60 freshmen ...