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FROM VISUALDX, the company that leads in visual diagnostic
decision-making, comes the newly redesigned Skinsight website,
providing the best resource for consumers on skin health and skin
care conditions. Skinsight.com provides
consumers with answers from trusted experts in the field of
dermatology about the best ways to protect and care for your
skin.
The updated features include an all-new rash and
skin condition finder, where users can look up skin conditions
based on age, sex, and body location. Skinsight's experts guide
users through over 200 of the most common skin conditions.
The health topics category incorporates articles
and advice from leading dermatologists, including information
on acne, moles, sun damage, and more.
Here's what those in the dermatology field are
saying about the new Skinsight.com.
"The information on Skinsight brings clarity
and understanding for my often worried patients. They can get
quick and reliable answers about their condition as well as read
up on the latest tips on treatment, " said Azeen Sadeghian,
MD, resident, Tulane Department of Dermatology.
"I refer patients every day to Skinsight.com
to read up on their diagnoses. Skinsight.com gives my patients a
quick way to learn about their skin condition from their
smartphone or computer. They can read about the latest treatments
from a website that uses trustworthy sources. The site is full of
great pictures, is easy to use, and is packed with readable,
important information," said Travis Morrell, MD, MPH, PGY-4
dermatology resident.
"Skinsight is a great website to offer
patients. It gives them solid information that I can trust and I
know the information that they are reading is valid," said
Edie Hamilton, PA-C, Children's Skin Center.
Check out the new Skinsight today!
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A NEW
FEATURE of VisualDx includes allowing very limited
content available to the general public. One important note, if you have an individual
account or a personal subscription, make sure you click on "Subscriber Sign In" in the
upper right corner and enter your credentials to access the full
content.
We remain committed to providing the best diagnostic
clinical decision support tool available. We now offer our
customers more than
2,800 diagnoses, 40,000 medical images, and more than 20,000
searchable medication reactions.
Another new feature to check out -
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IN SEPTEMBER, Florida
State University was dealing with an unusual outbreak of
hand-foot-and-mouth disease. Nearly two dozen students were
ultimately affected.1
A condition that appears more commonly in babies
and toddlers, hand-foot-and-mouth disease begins
with a mild fever, sore throat, cough, headache, malaise and
diarrhea. Vesicles develop in the mouth and can later appear on
the hands, feet and sometimes buttocks.
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is highly contagious
and spread by sneezing, saliva, or fecal material.
Suspect your patient has hand-foot-and-mouth
disease? Here's what to look for:
- Small
erythametous macules on oropharynx that are often painful
- Lesions
on hands, feet that start as erythematous macules and
develop a central yellow-gray, oval or football shaped
vesicle on an erythematous base - lesions tend to be
oriented parallel to skin lines
- Adult
infection may have peri-oral involvement, desquamation of
palms and soles and onychomadesis.
There is no
vaccine available for treatment though several are in the later
stages of clinical trails. Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is a
self-limited viral infection that needs to be treated only
symptomatically.
University officials cancelled school activities
and sanitized all living areas (dorms, fraternities, sororities,
etc.) in the hopes of stopping the spread of illness.
VisualDx has more information about hand-foot-and-mouth disease
including more than 80 images of child and adult infection and a
easy-to-share handout to share with your patient.
References
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IN OCTOBER, three of our medical research librarians – Erin
Keenan, Sigriet Ferrer, and Patricia Gogniat – attended the
annual meeting of the Upstate New York and Ontario Chapter (UNYOC)
of the Medical Library Association (MLA) in Watkins Glen, NY.
During the conference, Ms. Keenan and Ms. Ferrer presented a
poster titled “Effect of a Workplace Canine Companion:
Analysis of a Survey Evaluation of Employees,”
featuring our office dog, Tobias. The poster provided a charming
and evidence-based look at the benefits of a workplace canine
companion.
READ MORE
about their research results and the UNYOC conference.
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A
16-YEAR-OLD boy came to the ED by
ambulance accompanied by his shop teacher after an accident
during class. The young man said his friend had been fooling
around with some of the tools and suddenly he felt a sharp pain
in his eye. The teacher had been working with another group of
students and hadn’t seen what happened either. Now the student
was complaining of ocular pain, excessive tearing, and blurred
vision. Upon exam, the physician noted that his pupil was
abnormally shaped and decided to consult an ophthalmologist to
confirm a diagnosis.
Can you
diagnose the patient? Use the Differential
Builder in VisualDx to help you. Here's the differential we built.
Look for
the answer on our Facebook page on Tuesday,
December 6. Follow us on Facebook for a new quiz every Monday!
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