The Weekly Huddle

In this session, we engage in a clinical case discussion, emphasizing active pharmacological management of heart failure. The discussion focuses on evidence-based pharmacotherapy and addresses the quirks of various therapy optional available.

In this 97th session, we discuss the basics of managing peripheral artery disease, role of oral therapy, and exercise, and when to choose the intervention.

Patients with coronary artery disease or misc cardiac conditions are often on drugs which may be implicated in headache (as adverse effects). Many such headaches may be organic in nature. In this session, we discuss the various elements of headache, differentiating features, and treatment options.

In this session, we discuss the role of CPAP in heart failure. The discussion involves thought sharing with cardiologists and pulmonologists.

In this 94th session, we discuss the various aspects of sleep study, and the way to properly interpret it. It turns out, a sleep study provides much more information other than AHI.

In this 93rd session, we discuss nicotine replacement therapy: indications, preparations available, dosing considerations etc.

Discussing something very basic, insulin preparations are various and often confusing. We have our in-house endocrinologist giving us an explainer.

Managing hypertension in end stage renal disease is tricky. Both pharmacokinetics as well as pharmacodynamics need to be taken into account when we address this clinical spectrum. In this 91st session, we discuss quirks of managing such patients.

Yet another cardiology-centric topic in the 90th session. With the advent of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR), the discussion around aortic stenosis has changed quite significantly. In this session, we discuss parameters to use in deciding when to offer valve replacement to a patient with aortic stenosis, and how to choose surgery vs TAVR.

This 89th session gets a bit cardiology-centric. We discuss various aspects of managing newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation in a typical outpatient setting.