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

Rao Doctor

Unlike traditional angiography, which necessitates catheter insertion and carries certain risks, a CT-angiogram is performed externally and is generally considered safer and more comfortable for patients. It also offers improved speed and accuracy, making it a preferred choice for many healthcare providers.

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New app shares physician’s rounding queue with families and nurses

Today's Hospitalist

Key takeaways: • A pediatric hospitalist helped develop software that tells families and nurses where their patient is in that day’s rounding queue. “It was an incredibly easy pitch: ‘I want to make a Great Clips haircut software program to let patients and families know where they are in the rounding queue.’

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Episode 310 – WDx Episode #26: “You are Resilient, even if You Don’t Know It”

The Clinical Problem Solvers

This led to the creation of the StanfordCardio-Rheumatology Program, to provide specialized care to patients with cardiac pathology as a direct consequence of autoimmune disease.

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Winning the Battle Against Obesity – Digital Health Visions

The Medical Futurist

So let’s see what the ideal scenario would look like, and how the digital health revolution could contribute to this issue if healthcare systems, doctors, patients, and regulators were to embrace these innovations. When we discuss digital health, it’s easy to lose sight of the big picture. In 2022, 2.5 billion adults were overweight.

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Episode 279: Spaced Learning Series – Lower Extremity Weakness and Jaundice

The Clinical Problem Solvers

[link] Simone and Moses review their approach to chronic lower extremity weakness in a patient with new-onset jaundice, as Vale presents them a case with a neuro flavor to it. Download CPSolvers App here RLRCPSOLVERS

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Episode 90: Clinical unknown with Rabih and Reza at MUSC – fever

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Download CPSolvers App here Patreon website Schema #1 Schema #2 Dr. Marc Heincelman Marc Heincelman is an assistant professor within the Department of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina, where he also serves as director of the Medicine Clerkship and Acting Internship. Roughly 10-12% of cases may present without rash (i.e.,

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Q&A: Prioritizing Early Intervention in Pediatric Obesity

Physician's Weekly

I have found explaining the pathophysiology of obesity (eg, the role of biology, genes , and systemic risk factors), addressing the lived experience related to weight bias, individualizing the intervention to match the child’s family needs, and focusing on building the patient/family agency for change helps with engagement.