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Fracture Fridays: Keeping up with the Joneses

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The foot X-Ray taken of the foot of the patient with the foot problem The Diagnosis She has a fracture at the base of the 5th metatarsal (Jones fracture). Management The XRays of stress fractures and acute fractures can look similar, but the management differs significantly. Diagnosis and Management of Common Foot Fractures.

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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. Collaborative Care in the Identification and Management of Psychosis in Adolescents and Young Adults. J Inherit Metab Dis 2007; 30:631.

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Bisphosphonates for Osteoporosis: Podcast with James Deardorff and Sei Lee

GeriPal

And I was really excited just to learn how to manage these patients, because in the patients in geriatrics clinic that we see, fractures just can be so devastating and result in loss of independence. And so many older adults with diagnosis of osteoporosis have never received any therapy for it. It’s like 2007 or something.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Alex: And, it means pain management. ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016. Alex: So many, I remember in Palliative care fellowship learning how to prescribe Tramadol and even giving a talk at the general on pain management and recommending Tramadol. Eric: That was the SAT answer.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008.