Primary Care Pod

Primary Care Pod

Welcome to the Primary Care Podcast. We review the latest news, updates, and guidelines for primary care providers. Not medical advice for patients!

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May 7, 2024 16 mins

We're back!

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Fun, quick episode this week. 

 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33934725/

 

Non-fatal senior pickleball and tennis-related injuries treated in United States emergency departments, 2010-2019

 

Harold Weiss 1Jacob Dougherty 2Charles DiMaggio 3

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Today's episode is a very complicated topic without clear cut benefits. Expert opinions and modeling data to address a dangerous and serious topic. Let's look at 2 sources: a new study from the Annals of Internal Medicine and an expert opinion from Uptodate.

 

https://www.uptodate.com/contents/selecting-adult-patients-with-lower-extremity-deep-venous-thrombosis-and-pulmonary-embolism-for-indefinite-anticoagulation?search=unprovoked...

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Time restricted eating vs. caloric restriction. Is there a winner in this 1:1:1 12-month trial from Chicago?

 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37364268/

Time-Restricted Eating Without Calorie Counting for Weight Loss in a Racially Diverse Population : A Randomized Controlled Trial Shuhao Lin 1Sofia Cienfuegos 1Mark Ezpeleta 1Kelsey Gabel 1Vasiliki Pavlou 1Andrea Mulas 1Kaitie Chakos 1Mara McStay 1Jackie Wu 1Lisa...
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May 24, 2023 22 mins

Talking about 2 studies released last month:

 

1. Giving it to 3rd trimester moms and seeing what happens in newborns:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37018474/

 

2. Giving it to 60+ yo adults and seeing what happens:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37018468/

 

What happens when I review these? Listen to find out!

 

Helpful table (Not sure if this will reproduce well or not):

  NNT Vaccine Efficacy Severe LRI     first 90 d 142 81%...

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Hey everyone, on today's episode we are talking about a recent JAMA article on Heterogeneity in Blood Pressure Response to various blood pressure medicines and the idea of individualizing antihypertensive algorithms.

 

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2803518

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Today's episode we look at a study of 60+ year olds who have poorly controlled depression.  Is it better to add on medications? Switch medications? Does it matter? 

 

Study link:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36867173/

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March 5, 2023 15 mins

Bempedoic Acid aka Nexletol has a new trial in NEJM that shows MACE reduction in very high risk patients (mostly secondary but some primary prevention).  NNT? NNH? Other trials on Bempedoic acid? Tune in and find out.

 

 

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March 5, 2023 15 mins

Interesting study today that looks at High dose ICS inhalers possibly have worse outcomes in patients than medium dose ICS inhalers, leading to more exacerbations and need for antibiotics. Plausible? Let's discuss!

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February 17, 2023 9 mins

We take a Pre-operative study from the Annals of Surgery and talk about perioperative risk management for patients with low serum creatinine.

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February 10, 2023 11 mins

Minor changes, but enough that it's probably useful for an update!

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Fun episode today!

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January 27, 2023 13 mins

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Let's review a clinical trial of medical cannabis use in chronic pain patients with the goal of reducing daily MME dose.

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Interesting Study out of the Netherlands on different typing speeds in clinical practice by age, gender, medical role, and specialty. 

 

Take home - You aren't as fast as a typer as you think!

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Kicking 2023 year off with a topic on Motivational Interviewing, and what I'm focusing on to help patients make healthy choices and beneficial lifestyle changes for this year.

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December 9, 2022 16 mins

Thanks to Dr. Leah Prestbo, you the MVP.

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November 28, 2022 12 mins

Today we discuss a recent study looking at intra-articular steroid injections for knee arthritis vs. IM steroid injections in the glute.  Non-inferior???

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November 22, 2022 18 mins

Apparently, the relationship between HDL and coronary artery disease is much more complicated than previously thought. Low HDL doesn't matter if you are black? Let's read about a November 2022 study from JACC.

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November 11, 2022 9 mins

Last decade, data has pointed us to prescribe BP meds at night, new study says, maybe it doesn't matter?

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