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One on One Les Miles Discusses Oxygen Therapy +($/7+&$5(-2851$/ JULY / AUGUST 2014 I HEALTHCAREJOURNALBR.COM I $8 of Baton Rouge One on One Les Miles discusses Oxygen Therapy INSIDE D ealing with the Devil A Healing Note Urgent Care on the Rise SCAN TO SUBSCRIBE urnals o J ea H S U lthcare Baton Rouge, LA 70810-3813 LA Rouge, Baton ID PA 17732 Highland Road, Suite G-137 Suite Road, Highland 17732 E G TA S O P S U D T S R S R P T Healthcare Journal of Baton Rouge Baton of Journal Healthcare Smart, in-depth, award-winning healthcare reporting July/August 2014 CHIEF EDITOR SMITH W. HARTLey [email protected] MANAGING EDITOR KAREN TATUm [email protected] EDITOR/WRITER PHILIP GATTo [email protected] CONTRIBUTORS TEREsa BERGEN ClauDIA S. 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The editor reserves the right to censor, revise, edit, reject or cancel any materials not meeting the stan- dards of Healthcare Journal of Baton Rouge. 6 JUL / AUG 2014 I HEALTHCARE JOURNAL OF BATON ROUGE July / August 2014 %5 pagE OT: One on One pagE with Les Miles Les Miles talks oxygen therapy 12 Features Departments Editor’s Desk ..........................10 20 Dealing with Healthcare Briefs ..................43 the Devil Hospital Rounds9 ...................5 pagE The human side of the Advertiser Index ...................66 32 heroin epidemic Correspondents 28 On a Healing Note Music therapy and medicine Quality .....................................50 Nursing ...................................52 32 Urgent Care Policy .......................................54 On The Rise Secretary’s Corner ................56 What’s behind the bump? 38 Smoke Gets in Your...What? pagE Secondhand smoke may boost bad bacteria 38 pagE 20 EDITOR’S DESK Breathe Better for Better Health There are many wonderful suggestions for entirely improving one’s health that are rarely discussed, mostly because there isn’t an economy to ben- efit from them. For example, take the importance of the breath. Focusing on proper breathing provides many health benefits, but how often is it discussed or practiced? Just from a mental perspective, good breathing techniques help to calm the mind, reduce mental chatter, reduce fearful thoughts, and bring better mental awareness. The physical benefits are almost too many to mention. I heard once that we should live as if we were given a certain number of breaths. No doubt there is likely a correlation between slower, deeper breathing and a longer life. The respiratory system is the gateway to purifying the body. It’s often believed that because breathing is also involuntary, it’s not meant to be controlled – not true. Regulating the breath is the means to train the lungs and nervous system to better serve our mental condition and physi- cal actions on this earth. Try this – Do you know of anyone who could stand to be less angry, depressed, frustrated, or anxious? Ask them for one minute of their time. It could change their lives forever and the lives of everyone they come in contact with. Have them try this simple exercise. Using a second hand clock, with the mouth closed, breathe in deeply for 6 seconds, then, breathe out deeply for 6 seconds. That’s 5 full breaths in one minute. Is anything different? If you can breathe like this for a minute, you can do it for 5 minutes. Continue practicing until it becomes a habit, and you’ve changed your life. We are always looking for better solutions, but some of the best and most basic notions are often simple and overlooked. In a world that encourages a stressful existence, we still have some choices. We can live in the world, but we don’t have to take the bait it offers us to join in its stress. We can ignore the world in this respect. We can breathe slower, we can be calmer, we can make clear decisions, we can be more aware. That’s something the world can’t take from us. As health leaders, we always want to offer our patients and community better health options. With an evolving healthcare economy we are able to treat patients with a wide variety of economi- cally based solutions. But, our greatest service is sometimes teaching us all to treat ourselves. We all benefit in the long run. Smith Hartley Chief Editor [email protected] OT: This is something I could not go by for our players, for our kids. What a wonderful thing to surmise, to pretend, that if gotten to within an hour and treated at this duration we find that the healing is with minimal scar tissue, with minimal deficit, and that in fact it might make the difference when ‘‘that person turns 70 and does not have dementia, does not have Alzheimer’s, does not have all the neurological issues.” * Les Miles has been the Head Coach of the Louisiana State University Football Team since 2005. In eight years, the “Miles Method” has proved to be a winning formula as the Tigers have won more games than any program in the Southeastern Conference over that span, while capturing a pair of SEC titles, reaching the BCS National Championship Game two times and taking home the 2007 national title. OT:*Oxygen Therapy A ONE ON ONE WITH Les Miles H EAD COACH LSU FOOTBall DIALOGUE n the classroom, 170 football players have earned their degree since Miles took over, and for the second-straight year LSU ranked second to only Vanderbilt in the SEC in graduation rates at 77 percent. Under Miles, LSU has produced 134 players who have earned SEC Academic Honor Roll status. LSU’s community service presence is impactful as football players routinely donate time giving back to the Baton Rouge area through a variety of avenues including appearances at schools, hospitals, and many other charitable causes. It’s through these community service ventures that Miles and his team get a better understanding of what it means to wear an LSU uniform and the impact that can be made on those who are less fortunate. In case you are wondering if you accidentally picked up Sports Illustrated, there is a healthcare point to a One on One with Coach Miles. In the process of evaluating player injuries and how best to prevent and treat them, Coach I Miles has developed an interest in hyperbaric medicine. We sat down one afternoon to chat with him about this new passion and what he thinks it may mean to both football and medicine. Chief Editor Smith W. Hartley In your own Here’s what we found out. Paul Harch and treatment it could be applied almost right words, what is hyperbaric oxygen therapy? Keith Van Meter (see sidebar page 19) are away for an injury. The researchers found the two doctors that the player was talking that in acute injury treatment, provid- Les Miles Here’s what happened to me.
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