Vascular Physician

JANUARY 11, 2023

Anesthesia Before Vascular Surgery: Things to Know As with any surgery, a major consideration for patients is whether their bodies can handle anesthesia safely. Every surgical procedure a vascular surgeon performs requires a unique approach from anesthesia to help guide the patient through a safe and pain-free surgery.

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Plum Health

MAY 19, 2023

Plum Health DPC has a primary care solution designed just for you: Embrace the Benefits of Direct Primary Care Direct Primary Care is a membership-based healthcare model that emphasizes a direct relationship between patient and doctor.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

AUGUST 25, 2019

However, the patient continued to be symptomatic and he returned for further evaluation. Clinical Manifestations We often think of GPA as a pulmonary-renal syndrome, but, while many patients develop renal complications, a much smaller percentage present with them. A CT Chest showed multifocal cavitary lung nodules.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 14, 2020

Had the ED not ordered a chest CT, would I have tested this patient for COVID-19? The patient I saw with atrial fibrillation and RVR likely wouldn’t even have merited testing in early March, yet he clearly had the disease in mid April. Sure, I don’t really think this patient has COVID-19, but what if I’m wrong?

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Vascular Physician

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Other more complicated cases may require open interventions such as endarterectomy and/or bypass. While bypass surgery is a "real" operation, in many cases it can solve the patients problem for many years or forever, compared to angioplasty and stenting which may need to be repeated frequently to keep the blood flow open.

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Vascular Physician

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Undergoing carotid endarterectomy can help reduce your risk of experiencing serious complications from carotid artery disease, including a stroke. Most patients can expect to recover in the hospital for 1-2 days after surgery. It is also important to be aware of potential complications following your surgery.

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Vascular Physician

JULY 10, 2022

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Vascular Physician

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Patients with arterial blockage may have no symptoms. However, the most common symptoms for patients with Leriche Syndrome include hip, thigh, and buttock claudication which may be on both sides. Treatment is patient-specific and based on age, health, and severity. An ABI less than 0.9 What are the symptoms? Who is at risk?

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Vascular Physician

APRIL 25, 2022

aneurysms or post-surgical complications). GAE is a newer, minimally invasive, image-guided procedure that can offer benefits and improvement for patients whose symptoms have failed to improve with other conservative measures.

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Vascular Physician

APRIL 22, 2024

Evaluate how well blood is flowing through veins and arteries Evaluate how a patient is doing after undergoing a procedure, such as having a stent placed. They are often used to determine where to put a catheter or needle in a vein or artery to avoid complications, such as bleeding or nerve injury.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Likelihood ratios (LRs), which help us determine how a test changes the probability of a disease, are defined as: For example, say 60% of patients with aortic stenosis have a systolic ejection murmur best heard over the aortic valve area, and only 10% of patients without aortic stenosis have that same murmur. pancreatitis).

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Vascular Physician

APRIL 22, 2024

Unfortunately, high blood pressure does not always present with symptoms that are noticeable by the patient. An aortic dissection may also cause a rection in blood flow to other parts of the circulatory system, often resulting in additional complications such as stroke, heart attack, renal failure, or spine and nerve damage.

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Vascular Physician

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Because vascular surgeons have the skills to provide every treatment of vascular disease, they can help individualize the treatment of each patient to what will work best for them. Can also provide medical management, but if open surgery is the best option, they will refer the patient to a vascular surgeon.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

A patient is on morphine and you want to convert it to another opioid like hydromorphone (dilaudid). Dr. Akhila Reddy and colleagues study looking at converting hospitalized cancer patients from IV hydromorphone to PO morphine, PO hydromorphone, or PO oxycodone. Step four is adjusting it for your patient. How do you do that?

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Vascular Physician

MARCH 29, 2022

Carotid body tumors are often asymptomatic and unnoticed by the patient. The majority are sporadic, meaning they can occur randomly in a patient without cause. Some patients may have a familial risk factor as a smaller percentage of these tumors have a genetic inheritance.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Janet Maynard, Director of this Office, highlighted in the press release that “[g]enetic metabolic diseases include very rare diseases that individually affect a limited number of patients. Drug development for these conditions has unique and complex challenges, therefore few treatments are available to patients.”

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

This simple challenge was focused on putting ourselves in the shoes of our patients with dysphagia who are prescribed thickened liquids. 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.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

FDA announced on October 3, 2022 that the voluntary electronic Submission Template And Resource (eSTAR) templates would be required beginning October 1, 2023, as we blogged about here. As anyone who has ever worked on a lengthy and/or complicated AI response knows, these responses do not always fit neatly in a text box.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 11, 2024

The approved labeling for AUVI-Q includes warnings and precautions regarding emergency treatment, injection-related complications, serious infections at the injection site, allergic reactions associated with sulfite, and disease interactions.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 17, 2022

FDA approved FIRDAPSE in November 2018, with a period of orphan drug exclusivity, for the treatment of Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (“LEMS”) in adult patients. In so doing, companies could then rely on the broader designated orphan disease and block approval for any different uses or other patient populations.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. Gastroesophageal reflux disease is when the patients have severe symptoms that persist and cause long term issues.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 13, 2022

With 190 pages dedicated to prescription drug pricing reform, the program is ambitious…and complicated. Without any predictability or clarity, biosimilar manufacturers will be less likely to take on the risk of developing these critical medicines, and patients will ultimately have less options.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

ZYDELIG (idelalisib) remains approved for use “in combination with rituximab, for the treatment of patients with relapsed chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) for whom rituximab alone would be considered appropriate therapy due to other co-morbidities.” 6,953,787 [] for [PTE] request under 35 U.S.C. §

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 24, 2022

TE Codes are complicated and this Guidance goes a long way to making the Orange Book more approachable. Evaluation of therapeutic equivalence is product-specific. The Guidance explains that only certain drug products are evaluated for therapeutic equivalence.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 31, 2024

December 17 th marked 11 years since this blog has been in existence, but for the first time ever since its creation, I managed to go the entire year without a single post! If you've been reading my blog for a while, then you know I basically completed a General Surgery based intern year. I had definitely been missing out!

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

Rectal method is more appropriate for infants, children and unconscious or comatose patients who are not able to hold the thermometer in their mouth. The choice of method depends on the patient’s age, condition, and preference, with rectal measurements often being the most precise for infants and young children.

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Vascular Physician

MARCH 29, 2022

Patient Presentation: The onset for PAA is typically insidious and asymptomatic. Occasionally patients will report unilateral pain in the lower leg on ambulation similar to peripheral arterial disease. Note: presence of these signs could be indicative of a medical emergency and patient should be advised to seek help right away.)

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Vascular Physician

DECEMBER 2, 2020

An advantage of TCAR over the transfemoral stent is a decreased risk of having a piece of plaque travelling up to the brain and causing a stroke, though the risk of this varies with patient's risk factors1. TCAR and the surgical removal of the plaque (Carotid Endarterectomy) are equally as efficacious in one-year follow-up2. 2019.18441.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 13, 2023

MISLEADING PRESENTATION OF RISK INFORMATION Recorlev is a drug for endogenous hypercortisolemia in adult patients with Cushing’s syndrome for whom surgery is not an option or was not curative. We’ve blogged on this previously almost exactly a year ago (we did a slightly better job on not offending pop culture). Would that it were so!

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Liz wrote a fabulous perspectives piece in the NEJM titled “ Deciding on My Dimples ” which talks about her experience as a patient doing shared decision making during neurosurgery for resection of an astrocytoma. But my piece in the New England Journal is about being a patient right before awake brain surgery. I could learn this.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

A NY Times article titled Should Patients Be Allowed to Die From Anorexia ? That’s how do we treat the mental health needs of patients with serious medical illness? So in those cases, can we adopt an approach to mental health care that centers primarily around quality of life of patients and their families?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

In further contrast to the United States, MAID in Canada is almost entirely administered by a clinician, whereas in the United States patients must self administer. So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Having Your Own Long-Term GP Can Save Your Life Patients who choose a GP rather than a specialist as their primary care provider have a 19% 8 lower mortality and produce 22% 9 -33% 8 lower healthcare spending. 11 , 13 Over time, GPs come to know their patients well. Over time, GPs put their patients into context.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Typically, generic sponsors carve out a patent-protected indication or patient population, but technically, any method of use can be carved out as long as FDA determines that the product can still be used safely and effectively without the patent-protected information.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

DEA noted that “there is considerable variability in the cannabinoid concentrations and chemical constituency among marijuana samples and that the interpretation of clinical data related to marijuana is complicated.” NPRM at 44,607. Basis at 24; NPRM at 44,617.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

Back in the 2017 user fee package, the FDA Reauthorization Act (also called “FDARA”), Congress set forth a process for establishing a category of OTC hearing aids—hearing aids that may be sold directly to patients without the intervention of a medical provider.

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