Regional Interventions to Prevent Multidrug-Resistant Organisms
Infections due to multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) are difficult to treat with increased morbidity, mortality, length of hospitalization, and health care costs. Author Susan S. Huang, MD, MPH, from the University of California Irvine School of Medicine, joins JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani, MD, MSJ, to discuss a new study that used a regional intervention to prevent MDROs. Related Content: Reducing Hospitalizations and Multidrug-Resistant Organisms via Regional Decolonization in Hospitals and Nursing Homes (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - April 1, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
Derogation, an ultra processed food system, and catch up pay for the NHS
Derogation, the way in which striking doctors can be recalled to the ward to protect patient safety, was agreed by NHS England and the BMA. Now, new data The BMJ has uncovered shows that the mechanism was rarely used - and when it was tried, was often rejected. Gareth Iacobucci explains what that means about relations between the government, the NHS, and doctors.
Felice Jacka, director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University, is one of the authors of our recent ultra-processed foods umbrella review - and joins the podcast to talk about the link between diet and health; and why goverments need to pay more attenti...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 29, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Interventions that will increase and sustain the uptake of vaccines in low- and middle-income countries
Immunisation is a key component in the prevention of illness and the Cochrane review of interventions to improve coverage of childhood immunisation in low- and middle-income countries was updated for the second time in December 2023. We asked lead author, Angela Oyo-Ita from University of Calabar Teaching Hospital in Nigeria, to tell us about the latest findings in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - March 27, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
SCCM Pod-508 PCCM: Critical Care Revolution: Pediatric ICU Liberation
Host Elizabeth H. Mack, MD, MS, FCCM, is joined by John Lin, MD, to discuss the transformative impact of the ICU Liberation Bundle (ABCDEF) on caring for critically ill children. This episode delves into the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine article, "Caring for Critically Ill Children With the ICU Liberation Bundle (ABCDEF): Results of the Pediatric Collaborative," exploring the implementation, outcomes, and the potential for enhancing pediatric ICU care (Pedtr Crit Care Med. August 2023; 24(8):636-651). Dr. Lin is Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine, and Service Chief for Respiratory Failure and Seps...
Source: SCCM PodCast - iCritical Care - March 27, 2024 Category: Intensive Care Authors: The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Tags: Medicine Source Type: podcasts
Admission avoidance hospital at home
Two of the Cochrane Reviews that investigate different ways to deliver health and social care services look at the qualitative and quantitative research into a strategy called hospital at home. In this podcast, Roses Parker, Cochrane ’s Commissioning Editor talks with lead author of the March 2024 qualitative evidence synthesis of implementing hospital at home, Jason Wallis, a physiotherapist and researcher at Monash University in Australia, and Sasha Shepperd, researcher at Oxford Population Health, University of Oxford in th e UK who led the Cochrane review of the quantitative effects of admission avoidance hospital at...
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - March 27, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
SCCM Pod-505 PCCM: Elevating PICU Outcomes in Bronchiolitis
Host Kyle B. Enfield, MD, FSHEA, FCCM is joined by Danielle K. Maue, MD, to discuss improving outcomes for bronchiolitis patients through a high-flow nasal cannula protocol, as discussed in the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine article, "Improving Outcomes for Bronchiolitis Patients After Implementing a High-Flow Nasal Cannula Holiday and Standardizing Discharge Criteria in a PICU." (Maue DK, et al. Pedtr Crit Care Med. 2023 Mar;24:233-244). Together, they explore groundbreaking initiatives that significantly improved outcomes for bronchiolitis patients using a high-flow nasal cannula protocol, the key interventions, and th...
Source: SCCM PodCast - iCritical Care - March 25, 2024 Category: Intensive Care Authors: The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Tags: Medicine Source Type: podcasts
US Surgeons Perform First Pig-to-human Kidney Transplant
A 62-year-man with end-stage renal disease has become the first human to receive a new kidney from a genetically modified pig, doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital in... (Source: Medscape Transplantation Podcast)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Podcast - March 21, 2024 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Medscape 210869 Source Type: podcasts
How Do Multimodal Large Language Models Perform on Clinical Vignette Questions?
How did GPT-4 Vision, a model that can work with images and text as input, perform when answering clinical challenge questions from medical journals? Daniel Truhn, MD, MSc, of the University Hospital Aachen in Germany, joins JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, to discuss this topic. Related Content: Comparative Analysis of Multimodal Large Language Model Performance on Clinical Vignette Questions (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - March 18, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
The future of the clinical relationship, code sharing, and a Nye-t at the theatre
In this week's podcast:
How AI will affect the clinician-patient relationship? Our annual Nuffield Summit roundtable asks how the promise of tech tools stacks up against reality, and how the future of the therapeutic relationship can be protected (participants below).
Your code is as important as your methods, which is why The BMJ now requires you to share it - Ben Goldacre and Nick De Vito, from the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford, explain why it's so important, and how The BMJ's new data and code sharing policy could change research transparency.
Nye Bevin set up the NHS ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 15, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Is alpha-lipoic acid (a natural antioxidant) better than no treatment or dummy treatment for nerve damage in people with diabetes?
Alpha-lipoic acid is sometimes used for the treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy. In this podcast, one of the authors, Caterina Delcea, talks with lead author Cristian Baicus, consultant in internal medicine from Colentina University Hospital Bucharest in Romania, about the January 2024 Cochrane review of this treatment. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - March 15, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Can music and vocal interventions benefit preterm infants and their parents?
The Cochrane Neonatal group has produced several hundred systematic reviews of interventions that might help to improve the care and treatment of preterm infants and their families. In this podcast, one of the group ’s researchers, Dirk Bassler, talks with lead author Friederike Haslbeck, a clinical music therapist and senior researcher at the University Hospital Zurich, Department of Neonatology in Switzerland, about the September 2023 review looking at music and vocal interventions to improve neurodevelopme ntal outcomes for preterm infants. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - March 13, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
What are the benefits and harms of ibuprofen for managing pain after an operation in children?
Ibuprofen is a widely used painkiller and a new Cochrane review from January 2024 brings together the evidence on its use for postoperative pain in children. In this podcast, two of the co-authors, Sara Pessano from Gaslini Children ' s Hospital in Genoa Italy, and Natasha Gloeck from the Health Systems Research Unit at the South African Medical Research Council, tell us about the findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - March 5, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
Hospital Mergers in 2024: Five Things to Know
Medscape Medical News spoke with health policy and antitrust experts about the Federal Trade Commission ' s new merger guidelines and the downstream effects of hospital consolidation. (Source: Medscape Transplantation Podcast)
Source: Medscape Transplantation Podcast - March 5, 2024 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Medscape 210869 Source Type: podcasts
Updated Pediatric Sepsis Criteria —Transitioning From SIRS to Phoenix
JAMA Associate Editor Romain Pirracchio, MD, MPH, discusses context and implications of the new pediatric sepsis criteria with authors Hallie Prescott, MD, MSc, of the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor VA Hospital, and Roberto Jabornisky, MD, of Northeastern National Medical School in Argentina. Related Content: Context and Implications of the New Pediatric Sepsis Criteria Transitioning From SIRS to Phoenix With the Updated Pediatric Sepsis Criteria—The Difficult Task of Simplifying the Complex (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - February 27, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 1090: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on the circulation of respiratory syncytial virus before discussing uptake of the RSV vaccine Abrysvo or the monoclonal anti-RSV antibody nirsevimab to prevent severe disease following RSV infection in infants 8 months or younger before going over this week’s influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 virus statistics, including all circulating variants in the US, examines if self-testing is more accurate than clinician administered Binax rapid diagnostic tests for SARS-CoV-2 infection, if N95 masks need a yearly fitting, how SARS-CoV-2 vaccination impacts the prev...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 24, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
