PodMed – Week of October 10, 2016

This week’s topics include Zika complications, hypothermia and in-hospital heart attack, long term heart attack survival and hospital performance, and ADHD medications and bone mineral density.

Program notes:

0:35 Hypothermia and heart attacks

1:33 About 6% treated with hypothermia

2:32 Outside hospital free radicals produced

3:11 Long term survival after heart attack and high performing hospitals

4:12 Seventeen years of follow up

5:12 Even among range of patients

5:32 Zika and Guillain Barre

6:32 Developed about 7 days post-symptom development

7:30 Does have some treatment implications

8:02 Bone mineral density and ADHD medications

9:02 Had DEXA scans

10:00 Smoking also decreases

10:48 End

Related blog: https://podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2016/10/07/guillain-barre-and-zika-virus-infection/