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Anchor lead:  Are recent successes with CPR sustainable? Elizabeth Tracey reports When bystanders initiate CPR during apparent heart attacks, more of those folks survive, recent studies show.  While these results are very encouraging, Gordon Tomaselli, director of cardiology at Johns …

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This week’s topics include bystander CPR impact, Coumadin and an antibiotic, childhood poverty and brain development, and durable weight loss in obesity. Program notes: 0:38 Kids raised in poverty and brain development 1:38 About a fourth lived near federal poverty …

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This week’s topics include a new type of prosthetic leg, breast cancer risk and obesity, mobile phones and CPR, and surgical mishaps. Program notes: 0:40 Mobile phones and CPR 1:41 Almost 6000 trained in CPR 2:40 Only compressions needed 3:20 …

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This week’s topics include manual versus mechanical CPR, duration of dual therapy after stent placement, sudden cardiac death among policemen, and HDL efflux versus level. Program notes: 0:54 Mechanical versus manual CPR 1:52 Mechanical in an ambulance better? 2:50 Expensive …

PodMed – Week of November 24, 2014 Read more »

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This week's topics include the new cholesterol guidelines, immediate blood pressure lowering in stroke, prehospital cooling for cardiac arrest, and mechanical versus manual compressions in CPR. Program Notes Related Article: Statin Guidelines