PodMed is a weekly podcast from Johns Hopkins Medicine. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, look at the top medical stories of the week.
This week's topics include managing after DVT, anticoagulation in folks with Afib, surviving with cystic fibrosis, and where to have rehabilitation after knee replacement.
Program notes:
1:00 Folks with cystic fibrosis survive longer in Canada
2:00 Have transplant earlier
3:00 How can we address in the US?
3:32 Where to have rehabilitation after knee replacement
4:32 Followed for up to a year
5:35 Underutilization of anticoagulation in Afib
6:32 About 40% inadequate dose
7:11 DVT and management afterward
8:10 Novel oral anticoagulants
9:10 Prolonged benefit with one of the newer agents
10:05 End