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Working Out – Dan Minter

The Clinical Problem Solvers

If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably found yourself asking that question after listening to a discussant on the podcast arrive at some unexpected diagnosis, only to have the biopsy or lab test prove them right. Dr.’s Vivek Murthy, Bridget O’Brien, and Gurpreet Dhaliwal sought to answer this question in a 2018 study.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? But these tests were never designed to diagnose. I just had lab tests done.

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

PEMBlog

2018 Nov;142(5):e20181009. Epub 2018 Oct 8. Morata and colleagues did a single center perspective randomized control trial back in 2018 that noted that regular antipyretics may reduce the recurrence of febrile seizures during the same fever episode, so during that illness. Pediatrics. doi: 10.1542/peds.2018-1009. PMID: 30297499.

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