JAMA Performance Improvement: Retained Foreign Body From a Sheared Off Lumbar Drain
A resident is asked to remove a drain that was placed in the lumbar space during an operation. Having never seen this sort of drain before not having removed one, the resident proceeded to remove the ...
28 Mar 201719min
Alzheimer Disease Overview and the Possibility That It's Caused By Infections
Alzheimer disease causes progressive neurologic deterioration and is reasonably common in elderly patients. It is characterized by specific patterns of memory loss, which progressively worsens and for...
20 Mar 201727min
Why the New Sepsis Guideline Changed
Recent guidelines for how to best manage septic shock have changed. Gone are recommendations for central venous oxygen saturation monitoring and goal-directed therapy. In is the concept that septic sh...
7 Mar 201733min
Updated Guidelines for Sepsis Management
In 2017 the Society for Critical Care Medicine updated its guidelines for sepsis management. These new guidelines differ significantly from ones in the past in that they no longer recommend protocoli...
28 Feb 201715min
JAMA Professionalism: What Should Students or Residents Do When Abused by Faculty
Approximately one-third of all medical school graduates report having been abused as students. Medical student and resident abuse has long been considered unacceptable behavior but still persists in t...
16 Feb 201730min
Sarcopenia, Frailty and Risk Prediction in Geriatric Patients
As people age, loss of muscle mass is inevitable, resulting in sarcopenia. Muscle loss contributes to overall weakness, which causes frailty. Frailty, in turn, is the generalized susceptibility to dis...
9 Feb 201718min
Hypertension Management and Dealing With Polypharmacy in Elderly Patients—A Report From the 2016 European Union Geriatric Medical Society Meeting
Managing hypertension in elderly patients is complicated. Recent studies have shown that elderly patients may benefit from aggressive hypertension management, but other studies have shown that some ar...
2 Feb 201728min
Managing Violent Patients in Health Care Settings
Workplace violence–related injuries occur disproportionately in health care settings. In this podcast, we discuss how individual clinicians should manage violent patients who might attack them. Articl...
30 Jan 201721min
