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Paxton Bach and Kieran Quinn are back this week on The Rounds Table covering two articles: changes in end-of-life care in the United States over the past 15 years and energy restricted diets for type 2 diabetes mellitus management. Modern end-of-life care has dramatically changed the number of patients that pass away in an acute ...

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Katie Wiskar and Samanatha Young, both GIM fellows at the University of British Columbia, host this week’s episode of The Rounds Table!  Together they review survival among patients with curable cancers receiving complementary medicine and epinephrine in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Complementary and alternative medicine are frequently used by patients in conjunction or as an alternative ...

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Kieran Quinn and Paxton Bach kick off Season 5 of The Rounds Table with two articles surrounding peri-operative medicine – both relevant to a wide variety of health care practitioners.  The first addresses the use of dabigatran in myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS) and the second covers assessment of functional capacity before major non-cardiac ...

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This week The Rounds Table is packed with the latest on bugs and drugs as well as a special segment on the editorial process. Dr. Paul Bunce, Infectious Diseases physician, and Kieran Quinn cover antibiotics in aspiration pneumonia and choosing wisely in cellulitis evaluation. Emily Hughes and Sheliza Halani speak with Dr. Matt Stanbrook, Deputy ...

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This week on The Rounds Table Kieran is joined by Dr. Dan Aronov, a new voice on The Rounds Table from Melbourne, Australia. Kieran and Dan guide listeners through recent advances in cardiovascular care. Dan steers listeners through the COMPASS trial examining rivaroxaban with or without aspirin in patients with stable atherosclerotic vascular disease to ...

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This week The Rounds Table is packed with new content. Kieran Quinn co-hosts the episode with Jonathan Gravel. Jon covers new evidence on treatment for opioid use disorder. Kieran covers an article on the effect of provider affiliation with a primary care network on acute healthcare utilization. The episode also features special guests David Juurlink ...

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This week on the Rounds Table Kieran Quinn and Katie Whiskar cover two important studies: low fat versus low carb diets for weight loss and the role of opioids vs non-opioids in the management of chronic pain. Diet modification is key to weight loss. Yet, no one dietary strategy is consistently superior to others for ...

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This week on The Rounds Table Kieran Quinn and Mike Fralick are back with another rapid fire episode: just the salient points from four articles instead of two, this time examining important cardiovascular studies. The risk of subsequent stroke after minor stroke or TIA is as high as 15% within 90 days. Mike covers the ...

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This week on the Rounds Table Kieran Quinn and Andrew Smaggus bring listeners up to date with the evidence on education outcomes in a duty-hour flexibility trial and the relationship between physician years of experience and mortality in hospitalized patients. The duty hour question is one important branch of the overall question of how to ...

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All good things must come to an end. As the final episode of the season, Kieran looks back at his top 5 favorite papers from The Rounds Table 2017-2018 year and shares updates for next season. It’s a rapid fire episode like you’ve never heard before! See the links to the papers below. We want ...

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