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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 ...

The post Call Me Maybe? Education Outcomes and Duty Hours & Physician Experience and Mortality appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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This week on The Rounds Table features a special guest! Deputy Editor for CMAJ, Matthew Stanbrook, Emily Hughes, and Kieran Quinn take listeners through two articles. Kieran and Emily start with a clinical trial of solanezumab for the treatment of Alzheimer’s. Matt and Emily then cover repeated influenza vaccination to prevent severe and fatal influenza. ...

The post History Repeats Itself! Solanezumab for Alzheimer’s & Repeat Vaccination to Prevent Influenza appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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This week on The Rounds Table Kieran Quinn and Paxton Bach take listeners through articles covering new evidence on prescribing fluids to critically and non-critically ill patients as well as new evidence on increasing the dose of inhaled corticosteroids for asthma exacerbations. IV fluids are a staple of hospital medicine, almost all patients will receive ...

The post Feeling Salty? Normal Saline vs. Balanced Crystalloids & Quadrupling Asthma Medications appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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This week on The Rounds Table Kieran Quinn and Ashley Minuk are back with two articles with a bend toward primary care and hospitalist physicians. Ashley covers aspirin versus rivaroxaban for VTE prophylaxis after hip or knee arthroplasty. Kieran shares an article on the use of ridesharing apps to decrease missed appointments. After hip or ...

The post Need a Lyft? VTE Prophylaxis After Arthroplasty & Ridesharing to Decrease Missed Appointments appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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It’s diabetes week on The Rounds Table. Mike Fralick and Kieran Quinn are back with the latest evidence in another Rapid Fire episode: four articles covered instead of the usual two. Canagliflozin has an impressive cardiovascular benefit profile for patients with a high burden of cardiovascular disease, based on data from randomized control trials. Mike ...

The post Sugar Coating Diabetes Meds? Oral Antiglycemics and Diabetes Management, Rapid Fire appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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This week on The Rounds Table we are covering new evidence on two important topics: migraine and risk of cardiovascular disease, and a clinical decision rule for Emergency Department transfer of older individuals who have sustained a fall. Laura Walker and Kieran Quinn highlight the key points for listeners. Migraines are a very common primary ...

The post Clear Mind, Clear Body: Cardiovascular Disease in Migraine and Decision to Transfer to the ED After a Fall appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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This week on The Rounds Table we are following up on the prevalence of PE in syncope and reviewing the evidence on corticosteroids for pneumonia. Ariel Lefkowitz and Kieran Quinn break down these two important articles for listeners. Do you routinely prescribe steroids in pneumonia? Ariel shares a Cochrane review which covers the literature to ...

The post Just Breathe: Prevalence of PE in Syncope & Corticosteroids for Pneumonia appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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This week on The Rounds Table Kieran Quinn and Paxton Bach are covering two important articles: catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation with heart failure and the association between myocardial infarction (MI) and influenza. It is common for atrial fibrillation and CHF to co-exist in patients. Yet, optimal management of these co-existing conditions has yet to ...

The post King of the CASTLE: Catheter Ablation for Afib with Heart Failure and Myocardial Infarction in Influenza appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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This week on The Rounds Table we are covering two important studies: diagnostic management of pulmonary embolism and safety of varying the frequency of whole blood donation. Kieran Quinn and Lauren Lacroix break it down for listeners. Pulmonary embolism represents a diagnostic challenge in the Emergency Department for patients presenting with a variety of symptoms ...

The post REPLAY: Bloody Brilliant! Diagnostic Management of Pulmonary Embolism and Frequency of Blood Donation appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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This week on The Rounds Table we are covering two important research articles: prevention of contrast induced nephropathy, and comparing post-operative outcomes between patients treated by male and female surgeons. Contrast induced nephropathy (CIN) is a potentially severe complication of angiographic procedures, especially for people with poor renal function at the outset. Prevention of CIN ...

The post REPLAY: Urine Luck! Renal Outcomes After Angiography, and Effects of Surgeon Sex on Post-Operative Outcomes appeared first on Healthy Debate.