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Anchor lead: What role do dogs play in intensive care units? Elizabeth Tracey reports Getting people out of bed in intensive care units, even when they’re being mechanically ventilated, is associated with better outcomes. Can dogs help? That’s the hope …
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Anchor lead: Do families and doctors walk away from critical meetings with the same understanding? Elizabeth Tracey reports Doctors may be unintentionally optimistic when conveying difficult information. That’s one interpretation of a study by Renee Boss, a neonatologist at Johns …
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This week’s topics include antibody depletion for kidney transplantation, a way to reverse dabigatran, the costs of board certification, and opioid use in the US population. Program notes: 0:43 Fees for medical specialty board 1:45 Over $3000 2:46 Kidney transplantation …
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This week’s topics include physician age and outcomes, abortion via telemedicine, age to begin screening for cardiovascular disease, and vaccination of travelers. Program notes: 0:31 Physician age and patient outcomes 1:30 Lower for physicians under 40 2:30 More up to …
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This week’s topics include at home sleep studies, an antibody for C.difficile infection, using big data to examine medical devices, and language concordance and type 2 diabetes control. Program notes: 0:35 Treatment of C. difficile 1:35 Antitoxin antibody 2:32 Phase …
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Anchor lead: When frailty is factored in, surgery outcomes are better, Elizabeth Tracey reports Frailty in an older person who needs surgery can be assessed and planned for by a multidisciplinary team, with a dramatic reduction in mortality, a recent …
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This week’s topics include transfusion outcomes in old versus new blood, use of tranexemic acid during surgery, bystander use of defibrillators, and bypass surgery outcomes on stopped versus beating hearts. Program notes: 0:45 Bystander use of defibrillators 1:42 About 10% …
