PEMBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Well cover its clinical presentation, epidemiology, diagnostic approach, and management, including why standard beta-lactam antibiotics wont work. Differentiate Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia from typical bacterial and viral pneumonia based on history, physical exam findings, and diagnostic testing. Plus, well discuss whether M.

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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. I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Pediatrics.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. He had easy work of breathing, and physical exam was only notable for decreased breath sounds over the left lower lobe. What’s the Diagnosis? Management of Congenital Lung Malformations. Lymphoma D.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months. It can’t be diagnosed and adios.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

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. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. It’s really important. Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

It’s under recognized, under diagnosed, under treated, under discussed, understudied as a result. But that combination is actually quite common, and it’s quite challenging to diagnose and manage, at least in the traditional sense. We think of it really as a kind of a management tool as well.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

How we came about to select these articles or to have interest in this topic is really older adults are unique population that are at risk for both over diagnosis of infections as well as under diagnosis of infections. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

In case you have missed it, click below to read- FEVER FAQ- Part 1 Fever Diagnosis: How is your health assessed? When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. Understanding the patient’s medical history is crucial for an accurate diagnosis.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. Does a good history matter anymore?

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

There are a lot of old myths out there about managing urinary tract symptoms and UTI’s in older adults. Then we chat with Scott Bauer, internist and researcher at UCSF, about how to assess and manage lower urinary tract symptoms in men. But really those urinary tract signs and symptoms should be driving your diagnosis.

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Family Physicians of Greeley

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

of the adult population) in Colorado have diagnosed diabetes, and that every year approximately 34,291 people are newly diagnosed? Type 2 diabetes is by far the most prevalent form of diagnosed diabetes. Prediabetes – is diagnosed when a person’s HgbA1c is between 5.7% Did you know approximately 311,554 (6.9%

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

I have so many questions, and I promise we’re going to get to the management of anxiety and serious illness. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body. But it’s this physical sensation that comes along with these ideations. Brianna 00:41 Thanks. Great to be here.

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Dr. Michael Bazel

MAY 26, 2025

The good news is that with the right diagnosis and treatment, you can take back control of how you feel, look, and live. Diagnosing Low Testosterone Getting a proper diagnosis is the first step toward feeling like yourself again. Hormones are powerful, and managing them correctly requires medical expertise.

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Vascular Physician

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The hormonal and physical changes associated with pregnancy are thought to be the primary cause of pelvic venous Disorders. If you have been diagnosed with pelvic venous disorders or suspect that you might have it, here is what you need to know about understanding the condition.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It's the first point of contact for all your medical needs, from routine check-ups to managing chronic conditions. Patients who have a trusted primary care doctor are more likely to follow medical advice, manage their chronic conditions effectively, and ultimately enjoy better health outcomes.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. However, there are “Red Flag” symptoms that require urgent evaluation and management. A doctor can help identify triggers, suggest lifestyle changes, and recommend medications to manage symptoms.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Before your blood pressure rises as well, know that this PEMBlog article is here to provide an overview of the recognition and management of hypertensive emergencies. Hypertensive emergency is a clinical diagnosis characterized by a sudden and severe elevation in blood pressure accompanied by signs of acute end-organ dysfunction.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 7, 2025

An optimal LDL is under 100 mg/dL, with under 70 mg/dL optimal for those already diagnosed with heart disease. Imperial Center Family Medicine healthcare specialists have extensive training in evidence-based prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of lipid disorders. LDL cholesterol predicts risk more than any other variable.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. Those things do just accumulate with age. Are you driving?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A lot of those symptoms of depression can also be attributed to different kinds of physical symptoms. We might say, “Of course you’re sad, you just got a very serious diagnosis.” If you’re low energy, well, is that the illness or depression? Is this a new onset depression? Is this an adjustment disorder?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And so, unfortunately, I think for a while, this condition, for many people, isn’t diagnosed until you end up seeing a cardiologist or a heart failure doctor who’s really honed in on this to say, actually, this is a heart failure syndrome. Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. Eric 13:28 Thank you. What is GDMT?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

However, lack of physical presence may make this contender struggle to land the emotional support punch that is at the very heart of palliative care. So they had to be within three months of diagnosis and they were going to be randomly assigned to either the traditional model that we’ve been testing. Who will emerge victorious?

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. Physical exam Vital Signs: Temperature: 37.9 °C, He was ultimately admitted to the general pediatric service for further management. This is the fourth of the four cases. Normal tracking Cardiovascular: Tachycardia.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Early diagnosis is crucial as it can impact a child’s growth and development. Learn all about diagnosis and management of this common problem in this brief podcast episode. But it might underestimate it because lots of mild cases don’t actually present clinically, and they’re not diagnosed endoscopically.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

This episode will help you better prepare for and manage children with inborn errors of metabolism in the Emergency Department. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis. You won’t be able to diagnose them on history and physical alone. Pediatrics. 1998 Dec;102(6):E69. doi: 10.1542/peds.102.6.e69.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. They supported patients, they gave them a holding environment, they did symptom management, yada, yada, yada, like all the things we know palliative care clinicians do.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered? And this case has been worked out the best in terms of the artificial intelligence suggesting diagnoses the clinician may have missed. I actually like reading books and the physical,” and what the internet 2.0 Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

How we came about to select these articles or to have interest in this topic is really older adults are unique population that are at risk for both over diagnosis of infections as well as under diagnosis of infections. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity. When you have, when you exist simply for being you, and then on top of that you have HIV AIDS as a diagnosis or substance use or what have diabetes, all of these will accelerate your aging. Noelle Marie 40:23 That’s interesting.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. And importantly the patient has to have capacity and they have to be able to take the drug themselves. So they have to self-administer.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Managing anger is hard, it’s really hard. And yet we don’t ever talk about how to manage it. And also the whole potential psychiatric diagnoses. I wish they were just a diagnosis. And I’m wondering, why did this bubble to the top of topics to discuss today? Dani: Yeah, good question. Eric: Zero.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. Eric 16:38 So everybody was diagnosed with an advanced lung cancer sometime in the last twelve weeks and then they were randomized. Palliative care.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Like yourself, when I was a resident, and pain has been shaped in our mind as being a purely physical sensation, especially on the clinical side, where this idea that pain is complex and that pain is as much an emotion as much as physical sensation is not really something we are trained to do. Haider: That was a great story.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. It sits at the intersection of emotion, interpersonal, physical, psychological, cultural. A lot of people, and we have some data to say that you might have distress, but sex is not one of the reasons for your distress when you’re first diagnosed.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. Before the primary care visit. Danny 10:07 Yep, that was the goal.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. I don’t know how our patients manage that. Alex 05:48 I guess we didn’t do hospice specifically. Eric 05:50 Yeah. What’s in it again? It’s a measure of function.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier.

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