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Expert Panel Unveils Preanesthesia Cannabis Use Assessment Tool

Physician's Weekly

Rationale for a Dedicated Screening Instrument Growing evidence indicates that perioperative pharmacodynamics differ between cannabis users and non‑users. “[P]reliminary The tool should be incorporated in clinical practice,” the study team concluded, “and subsequent validation studies are needed.”

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

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Survey shows patients with diabetes who follow doctor's advice more likely to undergo diabetic retinopathy examinations

Medical Xpress

Diabetic retinopathy is a severe complication of diabetes that can lead to blindness. The Japanese clinical practice guidelines for diabetes recommend that individuals undergo a fundus examination at least once a year to screen for diabetic retinopathy.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

Join us as we dive deeper into these studies and discuss the implications for clinical practice and patient care. And there’s so much work on, you know, you’ve got to take these medicines, you got to prevent this treat, that there isn’t that same sort of clinical momentum towards deprescribing. Alex 15:36 Yeah.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

And it’s also hard because oftentimes people don’t even bring this up in clinic. Do you screen for lower urinary tract symptoms, incontinence, and if so, how? Eric 11:57 In, let’s say, my clinic. Alex 13:24 Eric is pushing on the like, the clinical, practical stuff. Eric 08:05 Yeah.

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

We then walk through how we should screen for anxiety and how we should think about a differential. The question I would ask is, how helpful is that in our clinical practice? So we put those cutoffs, and I asked the question earlier, how helpful are those cutoffs in clinical practice?

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

FDA is considering approval, shifting away from Schedule I restrictions, paving the way for use in clinical practice. Alex: It’s complicated. We, for very complicated reasons, ended up with niacin. Stacy: We’re using anxiety, baseline anxiety, as our screening. So, creating a- Alex: Control condition.