Re: Covid-19 has made the obesity epidemic worse, but failed to ignite enough action
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Source: BMJ Comments - March 6, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Yes, Covid-19 has made the obesity epidemic worse, but do not neglect psychological factors
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Source: BMJ Comments - March 5, 2021 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Another AW case
It’s Friday, you are not on call and just finished an of EF 15% AVR/cabg x3. You have one foot out the door when all of a sudden you get called for a trach (fauk).
65 y/o morbidly obese patient with a pharyngeal mass. Smoked her whole life, can’t lie flat, can hardly talk. Below is her CT scan.
Plan? (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - February 5, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: sevoflurane Tags: Anesthesiology Source Type: forums
Khan Academy P/S passage question (Title: Is obesity contagious?)
Hello! Could anyone help me with this question from a PS passage from Khan Academy?
Basically, for Question 4, I was between C and D and could not decide which one. D makes sense, but I couldn't have guessed it in the first place.
The passage does not define what homophily means, but I assume they would expect me to reason my way to the answer, not to know what "homophily" mean in the first place. So, is there any psychosocial concept related to this that I 'suppose' to know? Is it always...
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Source: Student Doctor Network - December 6, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Bethn Tags: MCAT Study Question Q&A Source Type: forums
Covid-19 severity: Age, obesity and IL-6
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Source: BMJ Comments - November 4, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Re: Covid-19: Why are age and obesity risk factors for serious disease?
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Source: BMJ Comments - November 1, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Adding Metformin to VPA to control weight gain?
I have a moderately obese gentleman with Schizoaffective disorder and Meth use history who is still having a lot of AH and mood instability on VPA 1,000 mg, Risperdal 8 mg, Trazodone 150 mg and Wellbutrin 150 mg BID (has been snorting at group home a few times). His BMI is 37 and he wants to switch to Zyprexa as it worked for him in the past. I told him I would need labs before making any changes. But if I decide to cross-taper to Zyprexa, will adding the Metformin also help with the weight...
Adding Metformin to VPA to control weight gain? (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - October 20, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: shahseh22 Tags: Psychiatry Source Type: forums
Measuring of central obesity could be improved
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Source: BMJ Comments - October 1, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
Tachycardia Case
You're on call and the board is starting to clear up. You drop your last patient off in pacu and see that a ortho addon has been posted to the board. You go to see the patient and this is the history you obtain.
65 yo m with pmh remote cva with left hemiplegia, htn, dm2, obesity who fell and presented with a left patellar fracture as well as trace frontal sah.
The first thing you noticed when you went to see the patient is that he is laying comfortably in the hospital bed, chatting with...
Tachycardia Case (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - September 27, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: GassYous Tags: Anesthesiology Source Type: forums
RFA machine shopping: needs: perpendicular lesion ability and multilesion ability
Just as the thread title states. I currently utilize the Kimberly-Clark/halyard/Avanos machine. It is what I used in fellowship and when started in practice a little more than 10 years ago I got the same one.
I really like cooled RFA in the lumbar spine especially for obese patients or patients with tough anatomy. It is great to be able to come in perpendicular because you get a very true view of the junction being squared up and you are obliqued so you get anterior enough without...
RFA machine shopping: needs: perpendicular lesion ability and multilesion ability (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - September 25, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: specepic Tags: Pain Medicine Source Type: forums
Idiopathic intracranial hypertension
Typical overweight female with classic symptoms. POCUS with large ONSD.
How many of you guys are doing the LP in the ER? Any evidence that this needs to be done emergently?
Do you admit for MRI/MRV?
Do you start them on acetazolamide before confirming dx? (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - September 14, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Bougiebuster Tags: Emergency Medicine Source Type: forums
What is your approach to difficult IV access?
How do you guys manage difficult IV access intraop (say for your super morbid obese vasculopaths)? Any cool methods or tips/tricks that I am missing?
1) Peripheral IV in any extremity
-Blind saphenous if peds
-IO if emergency
2) US for obvious superficial targets in the extremities
3) US guided IV into deep vessel (basilic or brachial)
4) EJ
5) Central line (Source: Student Doctor Network)
Source: Student Doctor Network - September 11, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: propofabulous Tags: Anesthesiology Source Type: forums
Re: body analysis vs BMI as obesity measure
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Source: BMJ Comments - September 9, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: forums
