Podcast made by and for Vanderbilt Internal Medicine Residents @VUMCMedicineRes, though content should not be used as medical advice, views are our own. Enjoy!
Check out our new Q-Files Episode with PGY2 Ben Palmer covering the #ISCHEMIA trial!
Thank you @DrJohnMcP for preparing the analysis with Dr. Palmer and for always supporting our podcast!! @VUMCMedicineRes
New Episode Alert!
In this installment of The Q-Files, @VUMCMedicineRes PGY-2 Trevor Stevens discusses the data that led to the use of corticosteroids in severe COVID-19 and explains how the RECOVERY trial changed practice overnight! Great job, Trevor!
open.spotify.com/episode/3P5…
Catch up on recent episodes and meet Chief @BlakeFunkeMD!
Here, you can learn about non-HIV PJP, parapneumonic effusions and "downhill" varices: tinyurl.com/ChiefBlake1
Her second episode discusses mucormycosis, hemophilia and high-output heart failure: tinyurl.com/ChiefBlake2
1/8 Corticosteroids and COVID19
*Three* RCTs and a new @WHO meta-analysis add to #RECOVERY trial data that corticosteroids reduce mortality in critically ill #COVID19 patients
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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It's time to meet our @VUMCMedicineRes Chiefs!
Meet Lee Richardson, avid fan of Space Jam and Problem Representation, in that order. He discusses resident cases of hypercalcemia in sarcoidosis, HLH and... gold implants?? #Mededtiny.cc/MeetLeeR
#RECOVERY: dexamethasone use in COVID-19 is now peer-reviewed in @NEJM. Dexamethasone significantly improved 28-day mortality in hypoxic patients, especially those on a ventilator. A practice-changing study!
Full link here: nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
Good slide from @MarcRoth11 outlining common sites of nodal metastases when generating an initial oncology differential for enlarged lymph nodes.
@VUMCMedicineRes @DrJohnMcP @VUMCHospitalMed @VUmedicine@VanderbiltMSTP@VanderbiltIMPod
Pleased to share our article on quality of life as reported by patients with Staph aureus & GNR bacteremia. Learned a lot and was lucky to be invited to participate as an MS4 in this important work! academic.oup.com/cid/advance…
Great virtual @VUMC_Medicine Grand Rounds discussing hematologic, cardiac & renal #COVID19 complications with @VUMCHemOnc Colleen Morton, @VUMC_heart Josh Beckman & @VUMCKidney @anna_burgner! Also a touching tribute for Dr. Bill Stone, complete with original COVID19 limerick!
New Episode Alert!
Chief @norwood_je joins us on the New Review! We discuss data behind proposed COVID-19 therapy!
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/44w…
Stick around for updates in every field of medicine including new colonoscopy guidelines, the NELSON trial, & HCV screening!
A retrospective study of 90k VA patients who presented with pneumonia found no benefit for empirical anti-MRSA therapy compared to standard therapy in all subgroups studied, even those with MRSA swabs #AntibioticStewardship
@JAMAInternalMed jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
Residents & fellows of @VUMCGME, medical students from @VUmedicine and @vumcnursing pitching in for the @VUMChealth emergency labor pool to make up shortages from the Nashville tornado! Go #TeamVUMC
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