The Rounds Table

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! We are back today with our Classic Rapid Fire Podcast! This week, Drs. Mike and John Fralick do a Rapid Fire session to discuss two recent papers exploring hospital safety – specifically, which opioid is best to use after fractures requiring orthopedic surgery and how we can minimize sleep interruption ... The post Episode 36 – Making Hospitals...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! We are back today with our Classic Rapid Fire Podcast! This week, Dr. John Fralick and guest Dr. Justin Boyle, Rounds Table Podcast Manager and Internal Medicine Resident, do a Rapid Fire session to discuss two recent papers exploring if smoking cessation can be promoted through a mobile app and ... The post Episode 35 – Preventative Health: Sm...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! We are back this week with a special podcast episode! Former hosts, Drs. Amol Verma and Kieran Quinn, return to chat about five important research studies published over the past year: EMPEROR-Preserved Trial (2:28 – 12:20) Discontinuing β-lactam treatment after 3 days for patients with community-acquired pneumonia in non-critical care ... The...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! We are back this week with a special podcast episode! Dr. Michael Fralick sits down with Dr. Chana Sacks, a General Internist from Massachusetts General Hospital, to chat about her role as Executive Editor of NEJM Evidence, a new digital journal dedicated to showcasing innovative research and bold ideas in ... The post Episode 33 – Dr. Chana Sa...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! We are back today with our Classic Rapid Fire Podcast! This week, Mike and John do a Rapid Fire session to discuss two recent papers exploring pharmacotherapy-based interventions for agitation experienced by individuals with dementia and when to start/restart antiplatelet therapy after stroke caused by intracerebral hemorrhage. Two papers, here...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! We are back today with our Classic Rapid Fire Podcast! This week, Mike and John do a Rapid Fire session to discuss two recent papers exploring the cardiovascular benefits of a novel diabetes medication and bariatric surgery. Two papers, here we go! Association of Bariatric Surgery With Major Adverse Liver ... The post Episode 31 – Tirzepatide a...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! We are back today with our Classic Rapid Fire Podcast! This week, Mike and John do a Rapid Fire session to discuss two recent papers exploring the cardiovascular and renal benefits of two medications used in the management of diabetes. Two papers, here we go!  Effect of dapagliflozin on ventricular ... The post Episode 30 – SGLT2 inhibitors and...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! We are back today with our Classic Rapid Fire Podcast! This week, Mike and John do a Rapid Fire session to discuss two recent papers exploring different strategies in managing COVID-19. Two papers, here we go! Awake prone positioning for COVID-19 acute hypoxemic respiratory failure: a randomized, controlled, multinational, open-label ... The po...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! We are back today with our Classic Rapid Fire format! This week, Mike and John do a Rapid Fire session to discuss two recent papers exploring cardiovascular disease risk. 2 papers…here we go! Should a lower systolic blood pressure be targeted in patients at risk for cardiovascular disease? (0:00 – ... The post In Case You Missed It: Episode 27...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table listeners, This week we review two papers recently published in JAMA: Does adding a long-acting muscarinic antagonist to inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting β2-agonists improve outcomes among individuals with moderate to severe persistent asthma? https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2780374 Is 7 days vs 14 days non-inferior to treat urina...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! We are back today with our Classic Rapid Fire format! This week, Mike and John do a Rapid Fire session to discuss two recent papers exploring cardiovascular disease risk. 2 papers…here we go! Should a lower systolic blood pressure be targeted in patients at risk for cardiovascular disease? (0:00 – ... The post Episode 27 – Rapid Fire Cardiovasc...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! We are back today with our Classic Rapid Fire format! This week, Mike and John do a Rapid Fire session to discuss two recent papers involving GLP1 agonists; looking to see if they are beneficial in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and in weight loss. 2 papers…here we go! Does semaglutide help patients with ... The post Episode 26 – Rapid Fi...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table listeners! This week we have a very special episode on Women’s Heme Health. We are joined by some very special guests this week, including – Dr. Jennifer Teichman, Dr. Heather VanderMeulen, Dr. Ying Ling, Dr. Jameel Abdulrehman, Dr. Sumedha Arya, Dr. Gillian Hawker and Dr. Michelle Sholzberg. Dr. Jennifer Teichman: How frequently ... The post Episode 25 –...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table listeners! This week John is joined by a special guest, Dr. Jason Zou – an Internal Medicine resident from the University of Calgary to do a rapid fire episode on 4 ID papers, all non-COVID related. Check it out below: Is CRP helpful in guiding duration of antibiotics for uncomplicated gram ... The post Episode 24 – Rapid Fire ID! appeared first on Health...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table listeners! We are back today with our Classic Rapid Fire format! Four papers … here we go! What is the optimal anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation and a bioprosthetic mitral valve? (0:30 – 7:10) The development and validation of a penicillin allergy clinical decision tool (7:10 – 13:20) What is ... The post Episode 23 – Rapid Fire! appear...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table listeners! To kick off the new year we have a very special episode, discussing what is known and what is not known about COVID-19 and pregnancy. Our guest is Dr. Verena (Vreni) Kuret She is the section head of the Maternal Fetal Medicine program in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology ... The post Episode 21 – COVID-19 and Pregnancy with Dr. Kuret...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! Today we are back with a throwback to our interview with Dr. Robbie Goldstein early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Back in April, we interviewed Dr. Robbie Goldstein to find out how Mass General Hospital (MGH) in Boston has prepared, and adapted, to a massive influx of patients with COVID-19. Dr. ... The post TBT – Dr. Robbie Goldstein on COVID-19 a...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! This week Mike and John review clinical aspects of COVID-19 management and review the latest data on treatment options. We hadn’t come up with a Good Stuff item at the time of recording, but since then this incredible video came out of a boy singing the #youcanbeABCs — it is ... The post Episode 19 – COVID19 management overview appeared first o...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! This week we sit down with Dr. Shannon Ruzycki, an Internal Medicine Specialist at the Foothills Medical Centre and Clinical Assistant Professor at the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. She joins us to share her research and experience in equity, diversity, and inclusion in medicine. You ... The post Episode 18 – Equity,...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table listeners! This week, we are joined by Dr. Alain Tremblay. Dr. Tremblay is a respirologist at the Foothills Medical Centre and a Professor at the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. He’s also the local site lead for the CATCO COVID19 treatment trial, which is the Canadian arm of ... The post Episode 17 – Interview with Dr. Tremblay: C...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! This week on the Rounds Table Mike interviews Dr. Peter Jüni, who is the executive lead of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table. They discuss the most recent report from the Advisory Table on the role that children play in SARS-CoV2 transmission.     Questions? Comments? Feedback? We’d love to hear ... The post Episode 16 – Kids and COVI...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! Just before COVID was starting to take off we had recorded a non-COVID episode on four hematology papers, but we never got around to releasing the episode. Well, better late than never…Four rapid fire papers on hematology topics that have nothing to do with COVID-19! Is an incidental lymphopenia associated ... The post Episode 15 – Hematology R...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! This week we are going back to our Rapid Fire Format to review two papers looking at potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. What is the safety profile and immune system response for a novel SARS-CoV-2 specific vaccine? https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2022483 (1:05-8:44) What is the safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of a viral vecto...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! This week we interview Dr. Richard Fralick, a hospitalist at Sunnybrook and public health specialist. He chats with us about the evolution of public health from the 1980s to today through comparing and contrasting the unique challenges of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and COVID-19 pandemic. For more, a seminal paper from NEJM published in ... The post...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners! This week we are going back to our Rapid Fire Format to review two papers looking at new data on treatment options for patients with COVID-19. Is Remdesivir effective in the treatment of COVID-19? https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007764 Is Lopinavir-ritonavir effective in the treatment of COVID-19? https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1...