PodMed – Week of July 13, 2015

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This week’s topics include cognitive decline with and after stroke, health care workers reporting to work sick, extended anticoagulation after PE, and sublingual allergen treatment.

Program notes:

0:38 Physician stay home when ill
1:38 Almost 1000 healthcare workers surveyed
2:40 Patients often immunocompromised
3:40 Change the norm
4:00 Placing allergens under tongue
5:02 Very small benefit when compared with placebo
6:07 Prolonged cognitive decline after stroke
7:07 Years later persistent decline in cognition
8:08 Need mechanism
8:21 Extended anticoagulation after blood clot to lung
9:22 When it was stopped risk was equal
10:27 End

Related blog: http://podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2015/07/11/under-the-tongue-allergy-therapy/