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"Plausible and under-tested" is the most useful phrase on this whole platform. I am stealing it for patient conversations.
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Anita Shah, RN ✚
@anita_rn · joined October 2026
RN, BSN · ICU · verified
Twelve years at the bedside. Interested in what helps people sleep, heal and go home.
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The dose question is the whole question, and it is the one that never gets funded. Who would pay for that study?
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Human study · 1 source
Why is photobiomodulation absent from our wound-care protocols?
Photobiomodulation keeps showing up in wound-care literature and almost never in our protocols. I'd like to know why the gap is that wide — I suspect reimbursement, not evidence.
Research · Clinical study
Photobiomodulation: The Clinical Applications of Low-Level Light Therapy.
Aesthetic surgery journal · 2021 · PUBMED 33471046
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Night shift and magnesium: what finally helped
Night shift observation, offered as observation and nothing more: the two cheapest things that seem to help patients sleep on our unit are dimming the lights at 9pm and magnesium with the evening meds. One of those is free.
Labelling this personal experience, not evidence — though the magnesium literature isn't empty.
Labelling this personal experience, not evidence — though the magnesium literature isn't empty.
Research · Systematic review
Oral magnesium supplementation for insomnia in older adults: a Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis.
BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2021 · PUBMED 33865376