PodMed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

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PodMed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

Episodes

  1. 27/10/2017

    PodMed – Week of October 30, 2017

    This week’s topics include health and wealth, gun show sales and gun injury, management of epilepsy, and outcomes relative to robotic surgery. Program notes: 0:34 Today is last PodMed 1:19 Epilepsy management 2:19 Not a single type of surgery 3:16 Identify the focus 3:30 Robotic surgery outcomes 4:30 Is it that much better? 5:31 Instruments going down in price? 6:05 Gun shows sales and adjacent states 7:05 About 86,000 gun related injuries annually 8:00 Health and wealth linked 9:00 Other factors associated 10:22 End

    10 min

  2. 20/10/2017

    PodMed – Week of October 20, 2017

    This week’s topics include Medicare spending on frail elderly, resorbable stents, men with HPV, and procalcitonin to assess antibiotic need. Program notes: 0:41 Looking at procalcitonin to determine antibiotic use 1:42 Improve or worsen survival 2:40 Point of care testing 2:54 Stents that resorb 3:52 First approved in Europe in 2011 4:50 Post marketing surveillance helpful 5:16 Men infected with HPV 6:17 Infection rate 11.5% in men 7:17 Should men self-identify? 7:35 Preventable spending in the Medicare population 8:35 Account for 50% of preventable cost 9:34 Things can be managed as outpatient 10:51 End Related blog:

    11 min

  3. 13/10/2017

    PodMed – Week of October 16, 2017

    This week’s topics include predicting mortality in those with congestive heart failure, bystander CPR impact, best management of stable COPD, and NOACs and bleeding risk. Program notes: 0:50 NOACs and bleeding risk 1:51 Also taking other medicines increased risk 2:49 Physicians need to know 3:18 Managing people with COPD 4:21 So many more people with the condition 4:43 Bystander initiated CPR 5:43 2/3 at home, 1/3 in public setting 6:44 Increased survivorship 7:00 How can we predict mortality in patients with heart failure 8:01 Easily obtained variables 9:04 Admission afterward? 10:26 End Related blog: https://podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2017/10/13/bystander-cpr/

    10 min

  4. 06/10/2017

    PodMed – Week of October 9, 2017

    This week’s topics include how the Zika virus changed, outcomes after surgery and health literacy, e-cigarettes and healthcare costs, and a reaction to tattooing. Program notes: 0:36 Case report of an outcome after a tattoo 1:32 Reaction to the tattoo ink but not cancer 2:32 Not cancer just a reaction 2:46 Mutations in the Zika virus 3:44 More likely to have brain malformation 4:46 Lot of controversy over this study 5:00 Health literacy and outcomes after surgery 6:01 No correlation with readmission 7:02 Very few minority patients 7:15 E-cigarettes and cost savings 8:15 People still had exposure to nicotine 9:15 How to quantify e-cigarette safety 10:39 End Related blog: https://podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2017/10/09/e-cigarette-benefits/

    11 min

  5. 29/09/2017

    PodMed – Week of October 2, 2017

    This week’s topics include aspirin discontinuation risks, HIV in those 50 and older, big data and chronic lung disease, and genetic testing and warfarin use. Program notes: 0:34 Genetic testing and warfarin dosing 1:35 Looked at genetics to determine 2:33 Other agents for blood thinning 3:01 Use of big data and chronic lung disease 4:01 More women smoking 5:02 Not sure of significance of e-cigarettes 5:26 HIV infection in those 50 or older 6:30 Usually diagnosed later 7:30 Still at risk if you’ve over 50 7:43 Perils of discontinuing aspirin 8:43 Stopping increased risk by 30% 9:43 Stop as close to surgery as possible 10:27 End Related blog:https://podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2017/10/03/hiv-in-the-50-crowd/

    10 min

  6. 22/09/2017

    PodMed – Week of September 25, 2017

    This week’s topics include physician assisted suicide, preventing infection post-C-section in obese women, 12 year outcomes of bariatric surgery, and death among triathletes. Program notes: 0:46 Triathlon events and death 1:43 Half with previously unknown cardiac problems 2:43 Trouble in water harder to resuscitate 3:36 Physician assisted suicide 4:36 In Oregon data gathered 5:36 Should be able to provide 6:40 No cancer excision if futile 7:15 12 year outcomes from bariatric surgery 8:15 3/4ths of diabetes remitted 9:07 Preventing infections in obese women with C-sections 10:45 End Related blog: https://podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2017/09/23/should-doctors-assist-in-death/

    11 min

  7. 15/09/2017

    PodMed – Week of September 18, 2017

    This week’s topics include hospital factors relative to readmission, hormone therapy, lymph node dissection in breast cancer, and the cost of bringing a new drug to market. Program notes: 0:32 Cost of R and D versus profit in new drugs 1:32 Took 7.3 years 2:35 Reaping in sales far outstrips R and D 3:32 R and D with federal dollars 4:00 What is the long term impact of HRT 5:00 Should be reassuring for women 5:36 Lymph node dissection in breast cancer 6:36 Increases risk of complications 7:32 Least amount of therapy to be effective 7:48 Hospital factors in readmission 8:45 Patients readmitted to different hospitals 9:45 Need to correct poorly performing hospitals 10:31 End Related blog: https://podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2017/09/18/drug-costs/

    11 min

  8. 07/09/2017

    PodMed – Week of September 11, 2017

    This week’s topics include a new antibody for asthma, early treatment in COPD, mumps vaccine to curtail an outbreak, and medical exemptions from routine vaccinations. Program notes: 0:38 Avoiding vaccines with medical exemptions 1:38 More people who are vaccinated the less likely an outbreak 2:36 Total went down but others are gaming the system 3:23 A third dose of vaccine and a mumps outbreak 4:23 All students had been vaccinated with two doses 5:23 May have been exposed to mumps later 6:22 Currently no early intervention with COPD 7:21 Less likely to have exacerbations 8:01 An antibody in adults with asthma 9:01 Monthly injections 10:29 End Related blog:https://podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2017/09/07/avoiding-vaccination/

    10 min

  9. 01/09/2017

    PodMed – Week of September 4, 2017

    This week’s topics include the right medications for a subset of people with heart disease, the PURE study, inflammation and heart disease, and the impact of neighborhoods on cardiovascular disease. Program notes: 0:47 PURE study 1:47 Fats and animal protein associated with lower mortality 2:47 Goes against years of research 3:31 Inflammation and CVD 4:32 Had high C-reactive protein 5:31 Not cost effective 6:00 Dual or triple therapy? 7:00 Using just two agents reduced bleeding risk 7:30 Your neighborhood and CVD 8:30 SES not in any risk model 9:30 Tied to quality of care 10:32 End Related blog: https://podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2017/09/02/should-you-live-pure/

    10 min

  10. 24/08/2017

    PodMed – Week of August 28, 2017

    This week’s topics include advance directive impact, approval of high risk medical devices by FDA, maintenance of certification for physicians, and cardiovascular disease impact of a new agent for type 2 diabetes. Program notes: 0:37 Positive impact of advance directives 1:34 78% died in their chosen location 2:34 Achieving what the patient wants with regard to care 3:02 Maintenance of certification for physicians 4:02 Randomly assigned to open book and time periods 5:03 Evidence based medicine changes 5:22 New agent for type 2 diabetes and outcomes 6:22 Lowered risk by 14% 7:22 Two times higher risk of amputation 7:40 What about FDA approval of devices 8:40 Premarket approval for new devices 9:40 Hold for months or years and deprive patients? 10:38 End

    11 min
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    Johns Hopkins Medicine
  • Years Active
    2014 - 2017
  • Episodes
    10
  • Rating
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