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How to recognize traumatic brain injuries as spring activities resume
Youth sports season is about to kick into overdrive and before your young one steps up to the plate or hits the soccer field, it’s important to be aware of possible brain injuries.
That’s why in front of a room of curious minds Thursday, Dr. Ashley Strobel, an emergency medicine physician at Hennepin Healthcare, explained the importance of looking for physical, cognitive and emotional symptoms when trying to identify a traumatic brain injury.
That’s why after a hit to the head, Dr. Min Joeng Park Graf, Medical Director of the TBI Outpatient Program says anyone with symptoms for more than 10 days needs to see an expert. Especially because brain injury symptoms, including vision problems, can either present immediately or over a period of days.
Family, hospital seek to end sleep-related suffocation among infants
According to Jenette Flynn, a pediatric unit clinical care supervisor at HCMC, babies “should always sleep on back, never their side and never their tummy.”
Dr. Tyler Winkelman of Hennepin Healthcare says research has shown that hospitalizations related to methamphetamine increased 270 percent nationally between 2008 and 2015.
Heavy, wet snow causing roofs to collapse in Minnesota, North Dakota
Dr. Michelle Carlson is a cardiologist at Hennepin Healthcare in Minneapolis. She said that if you’re out shoveling, it’s important to stay aware of signs your body may be under too much stress.
Meth seizures surge in Minnesota as treatment, research languish
Dr. Tyler Winkelman, a physician and researcher at Hennepin Healthcare, said the “unintended consequences of getting rid of local meth labs with the crackdown on Sudafed” — the over-the-counter product that provides a key ingredient for making meth — is “that opened up the meth cartels from Mexico.”
Spinal stimulation study giving paralyzed patients hope for voluntary movement
People paralyzed from a serious injury are being given an opportunity many thought they’d lost for good. Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Hennepin Healthcare are helping them regain voluntary movement and so much more.
Kidney transplant patients risk transplant rejection when Medicare coverage ends
Allyson Hart MD, MS, Department of Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare
The increase in drug seizures corresponds with studies that have found a rise in drug use among Minnesotans and nationally. According to research conducted by Dr. Tyler Winkelman of Hennepin Healthcare, hospitalizations related to methamphetamine increased nationally by 270 percent from 2008-2015, faster that any other form of substance abuse. The number of women using methamphetamine during pregnancy has increased significantly since 2008, particularly in rural areas.
More people in their 30s and 40s are having strokes. How to recognize and prevent them.
Dr. Tapan Thacker, a neurologist at Hennepin Healthcare, said strokes are becoming more common in younger populations. The rate of people ages 45 to 65 who experienced strokes increased 15 percent between 2000 and 2010, he said. The rate of people ages 35 to 45 who had strokes increased 40 percent during the same period.
Good Question: What’s the difference between Urgent Care and the ER?
Upon entering Hennepin Healthcare, people can choose to go right into urgent care or left into the emergency room. At both places, a triage nurse is stationed to tell patients where the appropriate place is for them.
Samantha Anders, PhD, and Senior Clinical Psychologist at the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center at Hennepin Health Care is Mary’s guest. She shares information about sleep problems, especially insomnia and debunks some myths. She also talks about the stages of sleep and situations when sleep medication is needed.
Dr. Tara Gustilo is the chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Hennepin Healthcare in Minneapolis. She’s also an acupuncturist who treats a variety of conditions, including chronic and acute pain, mood disorders, fatigue and fibromyalgia. She’s also a North American Menopause Society certified practitioner.
Cosmetic dermatology for the aging face
Dr. Jenny Liu is the Chief of Dermatology at Hennepin Healthcare.
As February comes to a close, Minnesotans share a winter badge of honor
Mentally trying, the weather took a physical toll, too. Dr. Andrew Laudenbach works in emergency medicine at HCMC.
Minneapolis police on pace to respond to record number of drug overdoses
Paramedics have used Narcan 160 times since Jan. 1 to treat suspected overdose victims, after using the opioid antidote 832 times all of last year, according to Mike Trullinger, deputy chief of operations for Hennepin EMS.
Asylym seekers get a safety net
Fearful of high medical bills, her mother waited to see if she got better. Sarai got worse. Finally, an ambulance rushed her 130 miles east to HCMC in Minneapolis.
Boiling water challenge sends people to the hospital
It’s not just the people throwing the water who are getting hurt. Vicik said some of the burn victims in Chicago have been those watching the stunt.
That’s also what they’re finding at Hennepin Healthcare, said Angie Whitley, the clinical care supervisor in the hospital’s burn center.
With amputation needed, homeless man finds relief in reunion with dog
Sitting in a wheelchair, his legs covered by a gray fleece blanket, Mitchell turned as a door opened and his “best friend” barreled into a conference room at HCMC in Minneapolis.
Frostbitten man reunited with dog after risking life to save him
Mitchell, 57, is currently staying in the burn unit at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.
Local burn surgeon works in unit where he was once a patient
Burn surgeon Dr. Jon Gayken has spent a lot of time at HCMC’s Burn Unit. He was a patient there back when he was 17 after he developed a blood infection.
