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February 8, 2016 – In Hospital CPR
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Anchor lead: Can CPR in hospitals be streamlined? Elizabeth Tracey reports When people who are hospitalized have a heart attack, inserting instruments to assist their breathing is most often standard issue. But now a new study calls that practice into …
February 7, 2017 – Where They Are
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Anchor lead: A new approach to healthcare is helping those with complex needs, Elizabeth Tracey reports Meeting patients where they are is one central tenet of a Johns Hopkins program designed to help patients avoid readmission to the hospital and …
February 6, 2017 – Win-Win
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Anchor lead: Taking a comprehensive approach to complex patients helps everyone, Elizabeth Tracey reports ‘Super user’ is the term used to describe people who make frequent use of the emergency department and are often hospitalized and rehospitalized. Now a Johns …
PodMed – Week of January 30, 2017
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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 …
February 3, 2017 – A Path Forward
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Anchor lead: How can we stem the tide of opioid addiction? Elizabeth Tracey reports Prescription opioid drugs are useful and humane for those in extreme pain, but they are associated with predictable dependency and withdrawal issues, so physicians who prescribe …
February 2, 2017 – Opioid Issues
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Anchor lead: What can one bioethicist’s experience teach us about the opioid crisis? Elizabeth Tracey reports A personal experience with being prescribed a plethora of opioid medications in the wake of several surgeries related to an accident has led Travis …