PodMed – Week of October 20, 2017

This week’s topics include Medicare spending on frail elderly, resorbable stents, men with HPV, and procalcitonin to assess antibiotic need.

Program notes:

0:41 Looking at procalcitonin to determine antibiotic use

1:42 Improve or worsen survival

2:40 Point of care testing

2:54 Stents that resorb

3:52 First approved in Europe in 2011

4:50 Post marketing surveillance helpful

5:16 Men infected with HPV

6:17 Infection rate 11.5% in men

7:17 Should men self-identify?

7:35 Preventable spending in the Medicare population

8:35 Account for 50% of preventable cost

9:34 Things can be managed as outpatient

10:51 End

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