PodMed – Week of December 5, 2016

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This week’s topics include frailty and postoperative risk, smoking, age and myocardial infarction, sports and cardiovascular mortality, and artificial intelligence and diabetic retinopathy.

Program notes:

0:37 AI and diabetic retinopathy
1:37 Showed over 60,000 images to a computer
2:37 Device takes a picture and computer evaluates
3:23 Presurgical assessment of frailty
4:24 Three or four years before and after risk assessment
5:25 Even in non-frail it helped
5:43 Different sports and cardiovascular mortality
6:44 Racket sports reduced most
7:44 Hard to hypothesize plausibility
8:25 Smoking, age and heart attack
9:25 One of the most important risk factors
10:30 End

Related blog: https://podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2016/12/04/frailty-and-surgery/