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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 1: Differentiating organic versus psychiatric causes of agitation and altered mental status

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Most children who present to Pediatric Emergency Departments these days with mental health concerns – including agitation – have a known psychiatric problem or diagnosis. J Inherit Metab Dis 2007; 30:631. Furthermore, the connection between physical and functional symptoms is inextricably linked in many patients.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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Joel: The Brigham and Women’s Hospital likes me to say that too. Alex: And the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. And she was rushed to the hospital. And they agreed on that and they talked to the people at the hospital, the surgeons and the nurses. Did I get that right? Joel: Oh yeah. Alex: Oh, good. Here we go.

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Bisphosphonates for Osteoporosis: Podcast with James Deardorff and Sei Lee

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And so many older adults with diagnosis of osteoporosis have never received any therapy for it. When we have a medication with up front harms and downstream benefits, it’s critical that we consider the time to benefit, or how long it will take an individual to benefit from a test or treatment. See screenshot below. James: I do.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

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But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Tom Gill later found that people with dementia do indeed have persistent severe disability throughout the last year of their lives. worsening prognosis.

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