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Paxton Bach is back on The Rounds Table with Tristen Gilchrist, general internist in Vancouver.  Together they cover statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular events and the prevalence of hospital-acquired infections in the United States. Most elderly patients have a high Framingham coronary heart disease risk score on the basis of age.  However, there are ...

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Kieran Quinn is joined by Kevin Venus, fellow in General Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto, on this week’s episode of The Rounds Table.  Together they cover the use of a carbapenem versus a carbapenem-sparing agent in resistant bacteremias and the efficacy of proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) in preventing gastrointestinal bleeding when using anti-thrombotic therapy ...

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Christopher Guiliano, clinical pharmacist, is back on The Rounds Table with Carrie Hartner, clinical pharmacist in the medical intensive care unit.  Together they cover rivaroxaban in preventing thrombosis in patients with Anti-phospholipid syndrome (APS) and in patients with cancer. The prevalence of APS is 50 in 100,000 patients and it is associated with arterial and ...

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Kieran Quinn is back with Daniel Marinescu, fellow in Respirology at the University of Toronto.  Together they cover the SUNSET trial on long-term triple therapy de-escalation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and the risk of thromboembolism associated with post-operative atrial fibrillation. The new Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) guidelines ...

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Freddy Frost, research fellow in cystic fibrosis in Liverpool, hosts this week’s episode of The Rounds Table with Alex Pickard, trainee in acute and emergency medicine in South London.  Together they cover new research on draining malignant pleural effusions and tranexamic acid in intracerebral haemorrhage. To start, Freddy walks listeners through a multicenter study looking ...

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Katie Wiskar, GIM fellow at the University of British Columbia, is back this week on The Rounds Table. She is joined by Stephane Voyer, practicing general internist at the University of British Columbia. Today they review medication application reminders and aspirin for primary prevention. Forty percent of patients or more are non-adherent to medications that ...

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Jonathan Gravel, family medicine resident at the University of Toronto, and Maaike deVries, PhD candidate in health services research at the University of Toronto, host this week’s episode of The Rounds Table.  They review two articles: the first on coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) and the 5-year risk of myocardial infarction, and the second on ...

The post Living the Bougie Life: Coronary CT Angiography and Risk of MI & First-Attempt Intubation Success appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Christopher Giuliano, Internal Medicine clinical pharmacist, hosts this week’s episode of The Rounds Table alongside Amber Lanae Martirosov, clinical pharmacist in ambulatory care with a focus on pulmonology. Both guests join us from Wayne State University. In this episode they cover the use of apixaban in patients with atrial fibrillation and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) ...

The post Bleeding Heart: Apixaban for Atrial Fibrillation in ESRD & Safety of Smoking Cessation Medications 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 Erin Spicer, faculty member in GIM also at Western University.  This week they cover partial oral versus intravenous antibiotic treatment of infective endocarditis (POIATE trial) and microvascular outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus ...

The post POIATEic Insight: Oral versus Intravenous Treatment for Infective Endocarditis & Bariatric Surgery in Diabetes appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Freddy Frost, research fellow in cystic fibrosis in Liverpool, hosts this week’s episode of The Rounds Table with Alex Pickard, trainee in acute and emergency medicine in South London.  Together they cover new research on draining malignant pleural effusions and tranexamic acid in intracerebral haemorrhage. To start, Freddy walks listeners through a multicenter study looking ...

The post Cut & Dried: Malignant Pleural Effusions and Tranexamic Acid in Intracerebral Haemorrhage appeared first on Healthy Debate.