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Michael Fralick and John Fralick, general internists in Toronto, are back on The Rounds Table and they are covering four articles in a rapid-fire style.  They discuss the use of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) up to 9 hours after stroke onset, nonfasting versus fasting lipids and cardiovascular outcomes, the use of dabigatran for stroke prevention, ...

The post Fire It Up: Delayed tPA, Lipids and Cardiovascular Outcomes, Stroke Prevention, and Fournier’s Gangrene with SGLT2 Inhibitors appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Christopher Giuliano, clinical pharmacist, is hosting this week’s episode of The Rounds Table alongside Insaf Mohamad, ambulatory care clinical pharmacist in Internal Medicine.  Together they are covering treatment of atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response with magnesium and falls risk with trazadone and benzodiazepines in patients with insomnia. Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac ...

The post Slow Motion: Magnesium in Afib and Fall-Related Injuries with Sleep Aids appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Andre Maddison, General Internal Medicine (GIM) fellow at Western University, is hosting this week’s episode on The Rounds Table alongside his wife, Emily Wilson, family physician in London and adjunct professor at Western University. Together they are covering risk factors, death, and cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and early or delayed ...

The post A Shock to The Heart: Risk Factors and Cardiovascular Events in T2DM and Cardioversion in AFib appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Freddy Frost, research fellow in cystic fibrosis in Liverpool, and Alex Pickard, trainee in acute and emergency medicine in South London, are back on The Rounds Table this week. They are covering treatment of paediatric convulsive status epilepticus and the effect of aclidinium bromide on cardiovascular events and exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

The post A Total Eclipse: Treatment of Status Epilepticus and Aclidinium Bromide in COPD appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Jonathan Gravel, family medicine resident at the University of Toronto and soon-to-be emergency medicine resident, is joined by Max Deschner, a resident in Internal Medicine at Western University.  Together they are covering coronary angiography after cardiac arrest without ST-elevation (COACT trial) and the risk of HIV transmission through condomless sex in serodifferent gay couples. Ischemic ...

The post Infectious Love: Coronary Angiography in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and Risk of HIV Transmission in Serodifferent Gay Couples appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Kieran Quinn, general internist and palliative care physician in Toronto, is joined by Emily Hughes, the producer of the show and soon-to-be Internal Medicine resident at the University of Toronto on this week’s episode of The Rounds Table! Together they are covering canagliflozin and renal outcomes, and quality of life among patients with atrial fibrillation receiving ...

The post Sugar and Spice: Canagliflozin and Renal Outcomes and Quality of Life in Atrial Fibrillation appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Katie Wiskar, fellow in General Internal Medicine at the University of British Columbia, and Kate Shoults, general internist in the Greater Vancouver Area, are joining us on The Rounds Table this week!  They are covering the association between cardiorespiratory fitness and long-term mortality, and vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids and the prevention of cancer ...

The post REPLAY: Are Your Vitamins Vital? Cardiorespiratory Fitness on Mortality and Vitamin Supplementation for Prevention of Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Michael Fralick and John Fralick, both general internists in Toronto, are on The Rounds Table this week. In classic fashion, they are covering four articles in a rapid-fire style. They discuss transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in low surgical risk patients, antiplatelet and anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation (AF) and acute coronary syndrome (ACS) with percutaneous ...

The post Left my Heart in CABANA: TAVRs, Atrial Fibrillation, and Acute Coronary Syndrome appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Paxton Bach and Katie Wiskar, general internists in Vancouver, are back this week on The Rounds Table. Together they cover bag-mask ventilation during intubation of adults in intensive care units, and liberal versus conservative oxygen therapy in acutely ill adult patients. In the non-operating room setting, some recommendations regarding rapid-sequence intubation suggest avoiding bag-mask ventilation ...

The post Catch Your Breath: Bag-Mask Ventilation During Intubation & Liberal Oxygen Therapy in Acute Illness appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Christopher Giuliano and Sean McConachie, both Internal Medicine clinical pharmacists, host this week’s episode on The Rounds Table.  This week they share articles on peri-procedural bridging in patients with venous thromboembolism and the reversal of factor Xa inhibitors with andexanet alfa. Bridging is commonly performed for interruption of vitamin K antagonists in the peri-procedural setting.  ...

The post There Is No Comparison: Peri-Procedural Bridging in VTE and Reversal of Factor Xa Inhibitors with Andexanet Alfa appeared first on Healthy Debate.