Ooooh matron!

Just a side blog for me to post some nurse and medical related stuff. ICU nurse from the UK

[katybriantart]

A rainbow watercolour painting of some lungs, painting four of six I'm doing to display in my room.

[princehansofthecutieisles80]

Being a ICU nurse I’m 1000% feeling this at the moment as are a lot of other health professionals. LOVE this piece of art

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-1pvDNgk9h/?igshid=x65ohtdafwpd

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[physiologicdeadspace]

Quain, Richard - The anatomy of the arteries of the human body, with its applications to pathology and operative surgery

[physiologicdeadspace]

Anatomia humani corporis by Govard Bidloo, circa 1685

[beautifulmedicine]

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[psych2go]

The utopian life

[beautifulmedicine]

Xray: shows bone/skull only. Does not show the brain. Best used to detect if there are bone fractures. CT: quick test. Shows brain but detail not great. Shows if any larger bleed, stroke, lesions, or masses. MRI: long test. Shows brain and detail is great. Shows smaller bleeds, stroke, lesions, or masses. MRA: shows the flow of blood in the vasculature system of the brain. If there is vessel narrowing or blockage this test would show it. PET scan: shows how active different parts of the brain is. An active brain uses sugar as energy and pet scan detects how much sugar is being used by lighting up and turning different colors. The more sugar being used the more that area will light up and be different in colors. Cancer cells use the most sugar so cancer cells light up the most. PET scan is used to see if there are cancer cells. (Cancer cells replicate at a very fast and uncontrolled rate hence use a lot of sugar to allow that replication hence why they light up so much).

Via Meddy Bear

[physiologicdeadspace]

Normal specimens that have been preserved through plastination (clockwise from top left: brain, head cross-section, sectioned kidney, small intestine, placenta, and heart), 1988-1993.

[princehansofthecutieisles80]

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I can’t stop watching this! Life (abstract) by Andrey Panfilov

[medical-mermaid]

The gastrointestinal system!

[oldbooksarchive]

Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme: comprenant la médicine opératoire (Band 5, Athlas): Atlas (1839)

[curiosityistheleastofmyproblems]

MRI scan- spinal cord cancer

MRI of lateral neck, showing cervical cord glioma.

These are benign and malignant central nervous system neoplasms derived from glial cells.

[oldbooksarchive]

Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme: comprenant la médicine opératoire (Band 5, Athlas): Atlas (1839)

[geteiltes-leid-und-gleichgesinnt]

By Etched in Embers

[elii-studio]

Human anatomy! Right now I’m studying a wide variety of topics and one of the most interesting is human anatomy and in this case muscles!

[design-girl]

[brightfell-deactivated20211019]

The science world is freaking out over this 25-year-old's answer to antibiotic resistance

[mindblowingscience]

A 25-year-old student has just come up with a way to fight drug-resistant superbugs without antibiotics.

The new approach has so far only been tested in the lab and on mice, but it could offer a potential solution to antibiotic resistance, which is now getting so bad that the United Nations recently declared it a “fundamental threat” to global health.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria already kill around 700,000 people each year, but a recent study suggests that number could rise to around 10 million by 2050.

In addition to common hospital superbug, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), scientists are now also concerned that gonorrhoea is about tobecome resistant to all remaining drugs.

But Shu Lam, a 25-year-old PhD student at the University of Melbourne in Australia, has developed a star-shaped polymer that can kill six different superbug strains without antibiotics, simply by ripping apart their cell walls.

“We’ve discovered that [the polymers] actually target the bacteria and kill it in multiple ways,” Lam told Nicola Smith from The Telegraph. “One method is by physically disrupting or breaking apart the cell wall of the bacteria. This creates a lot of stress on the bacteria and causes it to start killing itself.”

The research has been published in Nature Microbiology, and according to Smith, it’s already being hailed by scientists in the field as “a breakthrough that could change the face of modern medicine”.

Before we get too carried away, it’s still very early days. So far, Lam has only tested her star-shaped polymers on six strains of drug-resistant bacteria in the lab, and on one superbug in live mice.

But in all experiments, they’ve been able to kill their targeted bacteria - and generation after generation don’t seem to develop resistance to the polymers.

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[island-living-vetmed-chronicles]

Yes. All the yes. Women in STEM deserve ALLLLLLLL the applause. All of it. And cake. All the cake, too. 

[brightfell-deactivated20211019]

The science world is freaking out over this 25-year-old’s answer to antibiotic resistance: from Edward the Booble http://bit.ly/2MABk2O via IFTTT

[andrewiam]

I love this solution because it’s just… So simple. Everyone is getting deeper and deeper into pharmacology trying to find new stuff and new combos that’ll overcome bacterial resistance (while Big Pharma rakes in the profits) and this student was like “what if.. We just.. Physically rip it the fuck apart?? What’s it gonna do? Develop resistance to me cutting a bitch?”

Iconic

[slapspert]

Medicine: How do we defeat anti-biotic resistant super bugs?

Shu Lam: What if we just beat the shit out of it?