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What if you could tell a woman about to undergo chemotherapy for breast cancer that you had an intervention that would significantly reduce her risk of hair loss during therapy? Or, tell an adult patient with physician diagnosed asthma that they could safely stop their asthma medications? This week on The Rounds Table we welcome ...

The post Summer Replay: Keeping a Cool Head – Reducing Hair Loss During Chemotherapy & Challenging Asthma Diagnoses appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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All good things must come to an end. As the final episode of the season, Kieran, Emily, and Emilio look back at their top ten favorite papers from The Rounds Table 2016-2017 year. It’s a rapid fire episode like you’ve never heard before! See the links to the papers below. We want to thank everyone ...

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This week on The Rounds Table we are focusing on papers that highlight talent at home – here in Toronto! Kieran hosts Dr. James Downar and Dr. Mike Fralick to discuss their recent publications, and Emily and Sheliza bring listeners the final special segment of the year. The surprise question – Would I be surprised ...

The post Calling Home: Accuracy of The Surprise Question, Medical Assistance in Dying, and SGLT2 Inhibitors & DKA appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Steroids are important and ubiquitous medications, and the side effects of long term use are well known and often reviewed. But what should clinicians know about short term use: are these medications benign? Jay takes listeners through a retrospective cohort study examining adverse events (sepsis, venous thromboembolism, fractures) associated with short term use of oral ...

The post C the Difference: Adverse Events in Short Term Steroid Use & Prevention of Recurrence of C. difficile appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Contrast-induced nephropathy is cited as the third most common cause of iatrogenic acute kidney injury. In the Emergency Department, physicians must balance diagnosing life-threatening conditions using emergent imaging with the risk of potential harm caused by exposure to IV contrast. Recent studies, including the one discussed by Lauren in this episode, challenge the proposed causal ...

The post REPLAY: Emergent Realizations – Contrast-Induced Nephropathy & Opioid Prescribing Patterns appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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It’s a special episode of The Rounds Table this week with guest hosts Dr. Fraser Pollard and Dr. Ashley Minuk. Fraser and Ashley are family physicians in Trenton, Ontario. Sore throat is a very common presentation in family practice. Many patients who seek care expect a prescription to offer some kind of relief. For adults, ...

The post Sore Throats & Sore Legs! Dexamethasone for Adult Pharyngitis and the Benefits of an Active Commute appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Kieran has officially finished his Royal College Exam to qualify as a General Internist; which means, this week is the first of two weeks of replay episodes while he takes a much deserved break! This replay episode features Kieran and Ashley Minuk in discussion on two studies examining therapies in people with diabetes. Diabetes research is ...

The post REPLAY: Double Down – Liraglutide for the Prevention of Diabetes and Bariatric Surgery for the Treatment of Diabetes appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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This week on The Rounds Table we’re back by popular demand with another rapid fire episode: just the salient points from FOUR articles instead of two. Same time spent listening, twice the take-home! Kieran Quinn and Mike Fralick tease out the bottom line for listeners. Both hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia are prevalent, real, concerns for patients ...

The post Firing on All Cylinders! Hypothyroidism in Pregnancy, (Virtually) Managing Diabetes, and Anticoagulation Post Stroke appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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Overweight and obese patients are routinely counselled about weight loss since it is thought to improve numerous outcomes. However, as many of us know, achieving stable weight loss is easier said than done! In patients with existing coronary disease, is the weight fluctuation that is often associated with weight loss attempts harmful? Fahad takes listeners ...

The post A VISION of Stability: Effects of Body Weight Fluctuation on Coronary Outcomes and Post-Operative Troponins on Mortality appeared first on Healthy Debate.

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It is widely accepted that statin drugs reduce cardiovascular risk. However, how much of this risk reduction is attributable to LDL cholesterol reduction as opposed to something intrinsic in the statin drug has been a matter of debate. Paxton takes listeners through a randomized controlled trial that evaluated the efficacy of evolocumab (a biologic PCSK9 ...

The post The Hurry for FOURIER & What’s New From HERDOO2 – Decision Making in VTE and Evolocumab for CVD Risk Reduction appeared first on Healthy Debate.