Pomegranate Health

the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
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Pomegranate Health

Pomegranate Health is an award-winning podcast about the culture of medicine, from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. We ask how doctors make difficult clinical and ethical decisions, how doctor-patient communication can be improved, and how healthcare delivery can be made more equitable. This is also the home of [IMJ On-Air], a podcast to accompany the RACP's Internal Medicine Journal.  Interviews with authors are conducted by specialist section editors. Find out more at the website www.racp.edu.au/podcast and get in touch via the address podcast@racp.edu.au

  1. [Case Report] 35yo male with proximal weakness and skin changes

    4 DAYS AGO

    [Case Report] 35yo male with proximal weakness and skin changes

    This case report describes a 35-year-old Caucasian male presenting with 5 weeks of progressive weakness in the proximal limbs and trunk and associated changes to the skin. The man was previously well and not taking any regular medications. There are many pathways this undifferentiated patient could go down. Consultant physician, Professor Josephine Thomas demonstrates a systematic way to work through the differential diagnoses as would be expected in a long-case presentation for basic physici...

    31 min
  2. [Case Report] 47yo with rapidly progressive respiratory failure requiring ECMO

    NOV 20

    [Case Report] 47yo with rapidly progressive respiratory failure requiring ECMO

    In 2019 a man was referred to Royal Adelaide Hospital with worsening breathlessness and a productive cough. He was a 47 year old electrician with a history of tobacco smoking who’d been well before the onset of symptoms. Over a couple of admissions the patient’s condition progressed to type 2 respiratory failure. While the ultimate explanation for this presentation was a bit of a unicorn, the dramatic escalation of examinations and interventions runs through some textbook respiratory medicine...

    35 min
  3. [Journal Club] Thrombolysis up to 24hr after ischaemic stroke

    OCT 24

    [Journal Club] Thrombolysis up to 24hr after ischaemic stroke

    Thrombectomy for acute ischaemic stroke has undergone great advances in the last decade, but the expertise and technology is restricted to tertiary hospitals. Outside of large metropolitan centres, thrombolytic treatment can buy a patient time, but for almost 30 years the first line agent has remained unchanged. Alteplase is an analog of the human tissue plasminogen activator which activates plasmin to dissolve fibrin blood clots. For many years it was assumed that alteplase should be ad...

    44 min
  4. [Case Report] 48yo with diarrhoea and lymphadenopathy

    OCT 10

    [Case Report] 48yo with diarrhoea and lymphadenopathy

    This podcast follows the case of a 48-year-old male with a 3-month history of diarrhoea and associated lymphadenopathy. A complex constellation of symptoms accompanies this presenting complaint, along with a key radiological finding that enabled the treating team to arrive at the correct diagnosis. Can you arrive at the correct diagnosis before the treating team? This case was managed at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and is presented by Dr Andrew Vanlint from the Northern Adelaide Local Health...

    26 min
  5. [Guest Lecture] Fighting hepatitis C in prisons and the community

    SEP 19

    [Guest Lecture] Fighting hepatitis C in prisons and the community

    This recording comes from the launch of the 2nd Monitoring and Evaluation Report on Hepatitis C Elimination in NSW. The work was conducted through the Kirby Institute under the guidance of infectious diseases specialist, Professor Greg Dore. As presented in this seminar, data show that the state is on track to meet the 2025 target set by NSW Health, and the national target for 2030, but there have been surprises along the way that have required an adaptable approach to surveillance and interv...

    35 min
  6. Ep115: One day as a nuclear medicine registrar

    SEP 9

    Ep115: One day as a nuclear medicine registrar

    Dr Karan Singh loves his job as a registrar in nuclear medicine but he thinks there isn’t enough exposure to the specialty during medical school and basic training. In this podcast we spend a day in his department at Prince of Wales Hospital Sydney and get a taste of the many different referrals that come his way; a bone scan for a young man experiencing leg spasms after recovering from a car crash; myocardial perfusion imaging for an elderly gentleman with coronary artery disease; staging fo...

    45 min
  7. [IMJ On-Air] Understanding readmissions better

    AUG 22

    [IMJ On-Air] Understanding readmissions better

    The LACE index is a prognostic algorithm for predicting the likelihood that a newly discharged patient will come back into hospital within 30 days because of complications. Today’s IMJ paper describes a validation of the LACE index in a regional Victorian setting. Identifying patients who are at risk could allow for better targeted care at the first admission, reducing harm to patients and inefficient use of healthcare resources. The researchers also tested a novel classification t...

    32 min
  8. [Case Report] 58yo with acute myeloid leukaemia and diplopia

    AUG 9

    [Case Report] 58yo with acute myeloid leukaemia and diplopia

    This podcast follows the case of a 58 year old man who presented to the haematology department at Flinders Medical Centre with intravascular coagulation and leukocytosis. He was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia and treated on standard cytarabine and daunorubicin combination therapy. Nine days after initiation, the patient developed painless diplopia and ptosis, and the story is picked up with a referral to the neurology department. GuestsAssociate Professor Stephen Bacchi (Lyell Mc...

    26 min
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About

Pomegranate Health is an award-winning podcast about the culture of medicine, from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. We ask how doctors make difficult clinical and ethical decisions, how doctor-patient communication can be improved, and how healthcare delivery can be made more equitable. This is also the home of [IMJ On-Air], a podcast to accompany the RACP's Internal Medicine Journal.  Interviews with authors are conducted by specialist section editors. Find out more at the website www.racp.edu.au/podcast and get in touch via the address podcast@racp.edu.au

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  • Creator
    the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2024
  • Episodes
    120
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2024 Pomegranate Health
  • Show Website
    Pomegranate Health

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