Episode 80: Listener comments and questions with an attempt at answers - Part II

Submitted by admin on Mon, 2010-03-22 21:46

In episode 80, Mike and James continue getting back to listener questions. We discuss such topics as glucose monitoring, ezetimibe, niacin, nebulised salbutamol and niacin with uncanny intuitive insight coupled with a degree of emotional sensitivity rarely encountered in podcasts. We then wake up and get Peter Loewen to help answer a difficult question on oral anticoagulants.

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My dear old dad a country gp

Submitted by clarencest10 (not verified) on Thu, 2010-03-25 07:11.

My dear old dad a country gp for many years who died 10 years ago was pleased that he had a rule of not using new drugs for five or more years - non of his pregnant patients got thalidomide!!

How about a final word on Niacin and fibrates and when Mike uses them and why!

Some day a discussion on - Hi doc can you give me a general check up please. What would you like me to check. You are a doc you should know. Cochrane review on "healthy heart programmes" was not very encouraging!!

My dear old dad a country gp

Submitted by clarencest10 (not verified) on Thu, 2010-03-25 07:15.

My dear old dad a country gp for many years who died 10 years ago was pleased that he had a rule of not using new drugs for five or more years - non of his pregnant patients got thalidomide!!

How about a final word on Niacin and fibrates and when Mike uses them and why!

Some day a discussion on - Hi doc can you give me a general check up please. What would you like me to check. You are a doc you should know. Cochrane review on "healthy heart programmes" was not very encouraging!!

Looking forward to have a Speights with you two in NZ http://www.speights.co.nz/Home.aspx

Thanks for the great podcast.

Submitted by DavidSandhu (not verified) on Fri, 2010-03-26 06:53.

Thanks for the great podcast. I really enjoyed all of it. I am not sure if this helps answer the last question on the podcast about a patient with a.fib and is post MI with PCI+- Stenting. Is OAC + ASA/Clop equal/better OAC alone.

This meta-analysis looked at OAC + ASA vs OAC alone and found the benefit mainly in patients with mechanical valves.

Arch Intern Med. 2007;167:117-124
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/167/2/117

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