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This week on The Rounds Table Andrew Smaggus and Paul Bunce are back with new evidence on the association between home care visits and same day emergency department use as well as antibiotics for pneumocystis pneumonia. The extent to which home care visits contribute to the delay or avoidance of ED visits has not been ...

The post An Ounce of Prevention: Home Visits and ED Use & Septra Prophylaxis for Pneumocystis Pneumonia appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Paxton Bach and Kieran Quinn are back this week with new updates on diabetes medications and emerging evidence on the effect of renal denervation on blood pressure. Diabetes randomized controlled trials have moved away from surrogate endpoints in recent years and towards the endpoint of mortality. Paxton shares a meta-analysis comparing all-cause mortality associated with ...

The post Hit a Nerve? Comparing Mortality with Oral Antihypoglycemics & Renal Denervation for BP Control appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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This week on The Rounds Table Kieran Quinn and Katie Wiskar are back with two important studies; the first on visiting hours in the ICU and the second on NT-proBNP guided therapy in heart failure. Katie takes listeners through a systematic review and meta-analysis which showed that flexible ICU visiting policies were associated with reduced ...

The post Take a Closer Look: Flexible ICU Visiting Policies & BNP-Guided Inpatient Heart Failure Management appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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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 ...

The post Cardiovascular Rapid Fire: MRI-Guided Thrombolysis, Recurrent Stroke Prevention, and E-Cigs & Smoking Cessation appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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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 ...

The post Navigating Cardiovascular Care: a COMPASS for Cardiovascular Events and Managing Blood Pressure in Barbershops appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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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 ...

The post Seeking a High: Opioid Relapse Prevention & Primary Care Networks and Acute Healthcare Utilization appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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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 ...

The post Bugs & Drugs: Antibiotics in Aspiration Pneumonia, Choosing Wisely in Cellulitis Evaluation, and Demystifying the Editorial Process appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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This week The Rounds Table features another new host: Christopher Guiliano, clinical pharmacist at Wayne State University. Kieran and Chris cover acute kidney injury with combination antibiotics and managing migraines with prochlorperazine and diphenhydramine versus hydromorphone. Understanding the nephrotoxic consequences of prescribing antibiotics is critical for physicians. Chris takes listeners through a prospective evaluation of ...

The post Potion Commotion: Acute Kidney Injury with Combination Antibiotics and Comparing Pharmacotherapy for Migraine Management appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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This week The Rounds Table bridges the Atlantic. Kieran Quinn is joined by Freddy Frost from the University of Liverpool to cover talc administration by indwelling pleural catheter for pleurodesis and comparing cardiovascular risk scores in the Emergency Department. It’s not often that we see an interventional randomized controlled trial performed in a population with ...

The post Drain or Retain? Talc Administration in Pleurodesis & Cardiovascular Risk Scores in the ED appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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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 ...

The post If the Diet Fits! A SPACE for Opioids in Chronic Pain & Low Fat vs Low Carb Diets for Weight Loss appeared first on Healthy Debate.