Coronavirus Second Wave - wrapping up a the UK's response
Finally it seems that life might return to normal in the UK, as the vaccination efforts continue apace, and despite concern about increasingly spreading variants, our hospitals are not being overwhelmed. Because of this, we are changing our approach to covering the pandemic - and taking this second wave podcast to pastures new, but before that, in this last episode we’re going to look backwards and forwards, at the UK’s response. On the panel today are Matt Morgan, consultant in critical car e, Nisreen Alwan, associate professor in public health, Partha Kar, consultant in diabetes, and Helen Salisbury, GP.www.bmj.c...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 28, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Coronavirus Second Wave - wrapping up the UK's response
Finally it seems that life might return to normal in the UK, as the vaccination efforts continue apace, and despite concern about increasingly spreading variants, our hospitals are not being overwhelmed. Because of this, we are changing our approach to covering the pandemic - and taking this second wave podcast to pastures new, but before that, in this last episode we’re going to look backwards and forwards, at the UK’s response. On the panel today are Matt Morgan, consultant in critical car e, Nisreen Alwan, associate professor in public health, Partha Kar, consultant in diabetes, and Helen Salisbury, GP.www.bmj.c...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 28, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Coronavirus Second Wave - wrapping up the UK ’s response
Finally it seems that life might return to normal in the UK, as the vaccination efforts continue apace, and despite concern about increasingly spreading variants, our hospitals are not being overwhelmed. Because of this, we are changing our approach to covering the pandemic - and taking this second wave podcast to pastures new, but before that, in this last episode we’re going to look backwards and forwards, at the UK’s response. On the panel today are Matt Morgan, consultant in critical care, Nisreen Alwan, associate professor in public health, Partha Kar, consultant in diabetes, and Helen Salisbury, GP. www.bmj.c...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 28, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Melatonin for preoperative and postoperative anxiety in adults
The Cochrane Anaesthesia Group has produced a wide variety of reviews relevant to procedures related to surgery. One of these looks at the use of melatonin for preoperative and postoperative anxiety in adults and it was updated in December 2020. We asked the new lead author, Bennedikte Madsen, from the Center for Perioperative Optimizationin Herlev Hospital in Denmark to tell us about the latest findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - May 14, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts

Talk Evidence covid-19 update - Research on vaccine safety, treatment for dementia
In this week's Talk Evidence, Joe Ross, BMJ editor and professor at Yale again joins Helen Macdonald to talk about emerging evidence on Covid-19. They also welcome to the podcast Juan Franco, family physician in Buenos Aires, and professor at the Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano, and new editor-in-chief of BMJ Evidence Based Medicine. This week, the team bring you updates on; Post-covid syndrome in individuals admitted to hospita l with covid-19 - how are people with long covid faring. Finally published research from Scandinavia on the risk of thrombotic events after administration of the Oxford-AstraZeneca v...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 14, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts

Talk Evidence covid-19 update - Research on vaccine safety, treatment for dementia
In this week's Talk Evidence, Joe Ross, BMJ editor and professor at Yale again joins Helen Macdonald to talk about emerging evidence on Covid-19. They also welcome to the podcast Juan Franco, family physician in Buenos Aires, and professor at the Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano, and new editor-in-chief of BMJ Evidence Based Medicine. This week, the team bring you updates on; Post-covid syndrome in individuals admitted to hospital with covid-19 - how are people with long covid faring. Finally published research from Scandinavia on the risk of thrombotic events after administration of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vac...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - May 14, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Melatonin for preoperative and postoperative anxiety in adults
The Cochrane Anaesthesia Group has produced a wide variety of reviews relevant to procedures related to surgery. One of these looks at the use of melatonin for preoperative and postoperative anxiety in adults and it was updated in December 2020. We asked the new lead author, Bennedikte Madsen, from the Center for Perioperative Optimizationin Herlev Hospital in Denmark to tell us about the latest findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - May 14, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts

SCCM Pod-435 Intracranial and Cerebral Perfusion Pressure Thresholds Associated with In-Hospital Mortality Across Pediatric Neurocritical Care
Targets for treatment of raised intracranial pressure or decreased cerebral perfusion pressure in pediatric neurocritical care are not well defined. (Source: SCCM PodCast - iCritical Care)
Source: SCCM PodCast - iCritical Care - April 28, 2021 Category: Intensive Care Authors: The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Tags: Medicine Source Type: podcasts

How accurate is chest imaging for diagnosing COVID-19?
Our programme of rapid reviews for COVID-19 covers both the diagnosis and treatment of the disease and the reviews are being updated as new evidence becomes available. Among these is a review on imaging tests for diagnosing the condition, and we asked the lead author of the March 2021 update, Nayaar Islam from The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Canada, to describe the latest findings in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - April 13, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts

Opioids for newborns receiving mechanical ventilation
The Cochrane Neonatal Group has produced more than 400 Cochrane Reviews over the last two decades, updating these periodically as new evidence becomes available. In March 2021, they published the update of their review of opioids for newborn babies requiring mechanical ventilation and we asked two co-authors of the review, Olga Romantsik and Matteo Bruschettini from Sk åne University Hospital in Lund, Sweden, to tell us about the latest findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - April 13, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts

How accurate is chest imaging for diagnosing COVID-19?
Our programme of rapid reviews for COVID-19 covers both the diagnosis and treatment of the disease and the reviews are being updated as new evidence becomes available. Among these is a review on imaging tests for diagnosing the condition, and we asked the lead author of the March 2021 update, Nayaar Islam from The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Canada, to describe the latest findings in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - April 13, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts

Opioids for newborns receiving mechanical ventilation
The Cochrane Neonatal Group has produced more than 400 Cochrane Reviews over the last two decades, updating these periodically as new evidence becomes available. In March 2021, they published the update of their review of opioids for newborn babies requiring mechanical ventilation and we asked two co-authors of the review, Olga Romantsik and Matteo Bruschettini from Sk åne University Hospital in Lund, Sweden, to tell us about the latest findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - April 13, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts

Talk Evidence - children and covid, varients of concern, ivormectin update
The evidence geekery continues, and this week Helen Macdonald and Duncan Jarvies are joined again by Joe Ross, The BMJ's US research editor, and professor of medicine and public health at Yale. This week we update you on treatment - the WHO's guidelines for covid and ivermectin, and why they're not ready to recommend it's use in treatment, and prophylactic anticoagulation treatment. We hear about two papers from the UK and Switzerland which look at children and covid, and we pick up on varients of concern and long covid. Reading list. Association between living with children and outcomes from covid-19: OpenSAFELY cohor...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - April 2, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts