April 3rd, 2009
Podcast 37: A conversation with Vancouver General Hospital and the University of British Columbia’s Donald Griesdale about a meta-analysis on tight glucose control in the ICU.
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This week we talk with Don Griesdale about his meta-analysis on glucose control during intensive care. The evidence is complex, but we hope the presentation is straightforward and useful.
You’ll let us know if it isn’t, right? Just call us at 1-617-440-4374 and leave a message.
This week’s links:
- Medicare Rehospitalization Data Highlight Importance of Postdischarge Care
- Poor Communication in Hospital Readmissions
- News from the American College of Cardiology meeting
- Meta-Analysis of Tight Glucose Control in the ICU Calls Guidelines into Question
- Intensive Glucose Control May Raise ICU Mortality
March 30th, 2009
Podcast 36: Michael K. Kearney is our guest. He talks about the self-care of clinicians engaged in end-of-life care.
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We’ve got an interview with the first author of JAMA‘s final installment in its series on end-of-life care. The last paper focuses on the (necessary) self-care of clinicians who care for the dying. It’s an interesting discussion.
Please call 1-617-440-4374 if you have any comments. I’ll toss them into the mix.
This week’s links:
- Intensive Glucose Control May Raise ICU Mortality
- Meta-Analysis of Tight Glucose Control in the ICU Calls Guidelines into Question
- Joint statement from ADA and AACE
- ACCF/AHA Guidelines on Diagnosing and Treating Heart Failure
- Stopping Smoking in Early Pregnancy Can Reverse Its Adverse Effects
- Center for Practitioner Renewal
- Self-test for measuring burnout and compassion fatigue
- Center for Mindfulness in Medicine
March 20th, 2009
Podcast 35: Clinical Conversations reprises an interview with Mary Tinetti about falls in the elderly.
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Clinical Conversations, the podcast formerly known as Admitting Diagnosis, offers this week a reprise interview from last summer: Mary Tinetti talks about preventing falls in the elderly. Call 1-617-440-4374 to leave a suggestion. Let’s hear from you.
Links:
- Prostate Cancer Screening Controversy Not Dead Yet
- Diabetics and Patients over 65 Show Bigger Survival Benefit from CABG than PCI
- USPSTF Updates Recommendations on Aspirin for CVD Prophylaxis
Dr. Tinetti interview
March 13th, 2009
Podcast 34: An interview with Cheryl Bushnell of Wake Forest about her paper in BMJ concerning migraines during pregnancy and the possibility of their relation to strokes and other vascular problems.
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BMJ‘s paper on the possible association of migraine during pregnancy and stroke (and other vascular problems) is the focus of this week’s interview. We speak with first-author Dr. Cheryl Bushnell.
And then there’s the week’s news, plus a message from a listener!
It could have been you, if only you’d called 1-617-440-4374 and made a comment. Maybe you could get yourself to a phone and give it a shot this week?
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March 8th, 2009
Podcast 33: We repeat, after the principal news of the week, an interview with Stephen Hetz, co-editor of “War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq”
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This week’s podcast includes an interview from September 2008 with Stephen Hetz, co-editor of “War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq,” published last summer by the Surgeon General.
We’re going to change our name to “Clinical Conversations.” which, come to think of it, makes more sense than “Admitting Diagnosis,” but doesn’t have the mystery and the possibilities. We heard that the old name smacked too much of the classroom, etc.
So, let me know how you feel about the series so far. Call 1 617 440 4374 and leave me a message. Thanks!
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February 28th, 2009
Podcast 32: Reprise of a June 2008 interview with Larry Allen from Duke, in which he talks about patients’ estimates of their life expectancy, compared with what disease models predict.
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We’ve run into a scheduling problem with the person we wanted to talk with. We’ll try again next week, because his views are intriguing and I’m guessing you’d rather have intriguing than ho-hum.
However, so that you won’t have wasted your time downloading the podcast, I’ve reprised an interview from last June, when few of you were listening. It deals with the problem of patients’ false sense of optimism about their life expectancy. Intriguing for sure.
Let me know what you think. Call 1 617 440 4374 and leave a message.
NEWS LINKS:
- FDA Calls for Boxed Warning on Gastrointestinal Drug
- ‘Framingham Score’ Proposed for Atrial Fibrillation Risk
- Four Different Diets – Four Similar Results
- Moderate Alcohol Consumption Linked to Higher Cancer Risk in Women
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