Category: Heart And Vascular

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Anchor lead: Keeping people with heart failure out of the hospital may not be a good choice, Elizabeth Tracey reports People with heart failure whose hospitals took measures to keep them from being readmitted died at higher rates than those …

December 4, 2017 – Avoiding the Hospital Read more »

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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 …

PodMed – Week of October 20, 2017 Read more »

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This week’s topics include predicting mortality in those with congestive heart failure, bystander CPR impact, best management of stable COPD, and NOACs and bleeding risk. Program notes: 0:50 NOACs and bleeding risk 1:51 Also taking other medicines increased risk 2:49 …

PodMed – Week of October 16, 2017 Read more »

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This week’s topics include aspirin discontinuation risks, HIV in those 50 and older, big data and chronic lung disease, and genetic testing and warfarin use. Program notes: 0:34 Genetic testing and warfarin dosing 1:35 Looked at genetics to determine 2:33 …

PodMed – Week of October 2, 2017 Read more »

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Anchor lead: How can people with heart failure be safely managed outside of the hospital? Elizabeth Tracey reports Heart failure rates domestically and internationally are soaring, with a recent study pointing to dietary salt consumption as one contributory factor. Nisha …

September 19, 2017 – Bridge Clinic Read more »