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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 …

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Anchor lead: Helping people in chronic pain requires a multipronged approach, Elizabeth Tracey reports Chronic pain is complicated to manage, and now that opioids are being tightly controlled, new approaches are needed. Michael Clark, a pain expert who spoke at …

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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 »