{"title":"CME POST-TEST.","authors":"","doi":"10.1097/01.JAA.0000000000000193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.JAA.0000000000000193","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48728,"journal":{"name":"Jaapa-Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants","volume":"38 3","pages":"36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143494401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cerebral palsy: Current concepts and a glimpse into the future.","authors":"Garrett D Smigelski","doi":"10.1097/01.JAA.0000000000000178","DOIUrl":"10.1097/01.JAA.0000000000000178","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Cerebral palsy (CP) is an encompassing term for a group of permanent neurologic disorders of movement and posture commonly seen in early childhood and caused by abnormal brain development early in life. The cause of CP is unclear in the majority of patients affected and can be multifactorial, occurring in various time frames such as prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum. Because CP is a clinical diagnosis, clinicians must have a strong understanding of the clinical presentation to ensure early diagnosis and improved outcomes for patients. This article reviews CP and describes advances in diagnosis and management; it also provides an overview of new treatments that are under investigation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48728,"journal":{"name":"Jaapa-Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants","volume":" ","pages":"30-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143190837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fairness.","authors":"Cameron Young Sweeney","doi":"10.1097/01.JAA.0000000000000192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.JAA.0000000000000192","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48728,"journal":{"name":"Jaapa-Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants","volume":"38 3","pages":"50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143494404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Choosing a drug to treat motion sickness.","authors":"Gayle B Bodner, Courtney J Perry","doi":"10.1097/01.JAA.0000000000000097","DOIUrl":"10.1097/01.JAA.0000000000000097","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Patients who suffer from motion sickness despite avoiding triggers and using behavioral modifications may benefit from individualized recommendations for pharmacologic therapy. Patients with refractory motion sickness can benefit from prophylactic drug therapy using first-generation antihistamines or scopolamine.</p>","PeriodicalId":48728,"journal":{"name":"Jaapa-Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants","volume":"38 3","pages":"16-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143494398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acute hip fractures and the fascia iliaca compartment block.","authors":"Devin Robinson","doi":"10.1097/01.JAA.0000000000000064","DOIUrl":"10.1097/01.JAA.0000000000000064","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Acute hip fractures are common injuries evaluated in the ED. Emergency medicine clinicians are tasked with managing patients' severe pain while also trying to reduce harm caused by overuse of opioids. Multimodal analgesics, including peripheral nerve blocks, are crucial to pain management. This article reviews the fascia iliaca compartment block and the benefits of its early use.</p>","PeriodicalId":48728,"journal":{"name":"Jaapa-Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants","volume":"38 3","pages":"e6-e9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143494392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What you should know about the Surgeon General's advisory on parental stress.","authors":"Janelle Bludorn, Brittany Macon-Davis","doi":"10.1097/01.JAA.0000000000000177","DOIUrl":"10.1097/01.JAA.0000000000000177","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48728,"journal":{"name":"Jaapa-Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants","volume":" ","pages":"14-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143191027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hope and hard truths.","authors":"Donna LaMay Newman","doi":"10.1097/01.JAA.0000000000000188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.JAA.0000000000000188","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48728,"journal":{"name":"Jaapa-Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants","volume":"38 3","pages":"e1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143494406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intrathoracic pancreas: Giant paraesophageal hernia.","authors":"Ashley E Vitale, Victoria S Louwagie","doi":"10.1097/01.JAA.0000000000000190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.JAA.0000000000000190","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48728,"journal":{"name":"Jaapa-Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants","volume":"38 3","pages":"19-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143494413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is causing this patient's sepsis?","authors":"William Demshok, Debbi Hanson","doi":"10.1097/01.JAA.0000000000000191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.JAA.0000000000000191","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48728,"journal":{"name":"Jaapa-Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants","volume":"38 3","pages":"46-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143494421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A PA-led telemedicine advance care planning intervention in a life-limiting illness.","authors":"Christa S Cooper, Jessica A Karl","doi":"10.1097/01.JAA.0000000000000091","DOIUrl":"10.1097/01.JAA.0000000000000091","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To explore if a physician associate/assistant (PA)-led advance care planning (ACP) intervention would be successful and if patients and caregivers are comfortable having these discussions with PAs.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a randomized controlled trial with optional open-label crossover to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and effect on ACP engagement of a PA-led telemedicine-facilitated ACP (tele-ACP) intervention in a Huntington disease (HD) clinic.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>All participants felt they could effectively express themselves to the PA during the tele-ACP visit, and 95.8% felt comfortable communicating with the PA about ACP. The PA-led tele-ACP intervention significantly increased ACP engagement.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our PA-led tele-ACP intervention was feasible, acceptable, and it increased ACP engagement.</p>","PeriodicalId":48728,"journal":{"name":"Jaapa-Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants","volume":" ","pages":"e10-e15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143190833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}