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You don’t need to order comprehensive viral panels for most patients

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Identifying the specific type of virus that are causing a child’s symptoms, like rhinovirus vs parainfluenza, is often unnecessary, especially in otherwise healthy children who are managed at home. Comprehensive respiratory viral panels (i.e., Reasons to not order a comprehensive respiratory viral panel (i.e., isolation for SARS-CoV-2).

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

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We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. So, we use that information to formulate a treatment plan. This is Eric Widera.

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

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So from the simulation, the patient goes home, the physician and the physicist and the dosimetry department put together a treatment plan, and then the patient comes back for their actual fractions of their actual treatments. So we need to have a discussion upfront about how we’re managing the patient’s pain.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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Ashwin Kotwal: Yeah, and Thomas, I know this is something we’ve talked about as a group too, which is how do you translate some of these scales that we use in large studies to our clinical practice? Julianne: I’ll also add I mean another potential approach is also integrating social connection into existing treatment plans.

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