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Mashup Score: 2Podcast 298: COPD exacerbations — 7 days of antibiotics versus 2 | Clinical Conversations - 2 year(s) ago
A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS INTERVIEW WILL BE AVAILABLE WITHIN A FEW DAYS. [display podcast] In treating most exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) the usual regimen consists of prednisone plus 5- to 7-days of antibiotics. But what if a shorter course of antibiotic therapy would do? That would be both convenient for patients
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A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE HERE. This time, we look to New York for guidance on recognizing and treating monkeypox. Dr. Eric Meyerowitz of Montefiore and Dr. Stephen Baum of Einstein will lead you through the monkeypox thicket in a 17-minute chat. Included below is information for patients as well as
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Mashup Score: 0Podcast 300: NADIM II trial offers “quite exciting” results in lung cancer | Clinical Conversations - 2 year(s) ago
A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE HERE. We’re back with another interview from this year’s IASLC conference. This time, Christine Sadlowski and Dr. Julia Rotow interview Dr. Mariano Provencio about the survival outcomes from the NADIM II trial. In that trial, patients with resectable stage III AB non-small cell lung cancer received
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A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE HERE. THE USUAL AUDIO FILE IS AVAILABLE BELOW Steven Cummings has co-written a take-no-prisoners editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine. The topic? Vitamin D supplements. The conclusion? “…providers should stop screening for 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels or recommending vitamin D supplements, and people should stop
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Mashup Score: 4Podcast 296: A roundtable on the question, Why are young internists flocking to the hospitalist practice style? | Clinical Conversations - 2 year(s) ago
A VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS ROUNDTABLE IS AVAILABLE HERE. Your host is old enough to remember when hospital corridors featured physicians with little black bags, scurrying around to see their patients. That’s no longer true, of course. Most of the physicians seen in those corridors these days are white-coated employees. The Annals of Internal
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CREST-2’s results are probably more than a year away. In the meantime, what to do about diagnosed severe (but asymptomatic) carotid stenosis? Recent results suggest that medical management compares favorably with the surgical approach. In this edition, we address the question with a conversation between Dr. Allan Brett, NEJM Journal Watch’s editor-in-chief, and Dr.
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Mashup Score: 4Podcast 293: HER2-“low” breast cancer and its reponse to an antibody-drug conjugate | Clinical Conversations - 2 year(s) ago
Patients with metastatic breast cancer whose tumors express low levels of HER2 are generally classified and treated as having HER2-negative disease. However, Dr. Shanu Modi of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and a group of international collaborators explored the use of a monoclonal antibody–drug conjugate (trastuzumab–deruxtecan) in patients with disease they classify as HER2-“low.”
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Mashup Score: 0Podcast 292: Informed consent and apnea testing for death — or — What is death, anyway? | Clinical Conversations - 2 year(s) ago
Apnea testing is part of the protocol used to determine whether a patient is dead according to neurologic criteria. The question is, do clinicians need to obtain consent to proceed? In a fascinating 15-minute chat, two intensivists, Drs. Patricia Kritek and Robert Truog, discuss that question and another, larger one: what is death, anyway?
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Mashup Score: 2Podcast 291: Unionized nursing homes had lower mortality during Covid-19 | Clinical Conversations - 2 year(s) ago
In the early waves of the Covid-19 pandemic why did patients in unionized nursing homes, have a roughly 10% lower rate of mortality than those in non-unionized ones? A report in Health Affairs tries to sort out the possible reasons. Listen to our 13-minute interview, which raises the question: Should you send your patients to
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Mashup Score: 2Podcast 289: Saline versus balanced crystalloids — what to choose | Clinical Conversations - 2 year(s) ago
Saline or balanced crystalloids? The question of which resuscitation fluid to use in clinical practice seems to have been settled by recent research findings — or at least settled in favor of balanced crystalloids. But wait, our guests see slight differences that may affect your choice. Patricia Kritek practices critical care medicine at the University
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Saline or balanced crystalloids? The question of which resuscitation fluid to use seems to have been settled by recent research. But wait, our guests see slight differences that may affect your choice. Catch the latest Clinical Conversations: https://t.co/aMxO5WoduJ #MedTwitter https://t.co/87LOSeTUpe
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