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A Comprehensive Guide to CT-Angiogram of the Heart-Part 1

Rao Doctor

A CT-angiogram of the heart, commonly referred to as cardiac CT angiography, is a sophisticated imaging technique that utilizes computed tomography (CT) technology to visualize the arteries of the heart, called the coronary arteries and assess blood flow within the heart. Understanding CT-Angiogram What is CT-Angiogram?

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Clinical Reasoning Corner: Likelihood Ratios

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Objectives Define likelihood ratios and their utility in diagnostic reasoning Identify how likelihood ratios alter the probability of a diagnosis Apply likelihood ratios in clinical reasoning What are likelihood ratios and how do they work? A LR > 1 increases the probability of a specific diagnosis.

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

Eric: Well, before we talk about dysphagia and revisit it, which is also interesting, because this is our first podcast, I think on dysphagia, but we’ve talked about it before on GeriPal, in our blog. Eric: And swallowing is complicated, right? Eric: I also wonder, is it just the utilization review standpoint? I have one.

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Palliative Care for Mental Illness: A Podcast with Dani Chammas and Brent Kious

GeriPal

People who have serious medical illness and have psychiatric complications as a result, or people who have coexisting psychiatric illness and serious medical illness and that this issue of maid sort of brings things. There’s a Boguts case, a patient with anorexia who utilized medical aid and dying. Ptsd, depression, anxiety.

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