Podcast # 345: Epidural Abscess

Carepoint Journal Club is a quarterly series with discussions about a medical topic, brought to you by Carepoint's Emergency Physicians. 

Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: UTIs are commonly seen in older women We often see them taking long-term prophylactic antibiotics because of common recurrence. Around 20-30% of older women who develop a UTI have a recurrence due to either diagnostic failure, tre ...  عرض المزيد

Dr. Alex Menze talks with Dr. Carmel Armon about the efficacy of epidural steroid injections in cervical and lumbar spinal stenosis and radiculopathies, assessing short-term and long-term improvements in pain and disability. Read the related article in Neurology®. Disclosures can ...  عرض المزيد

Nothing is more satisfying than draining an abscess, right? But when is medical management sufficient or even better? In this episode of the BackTable ENT Podcast, pediatric otolaryngologist Dr. John McClay joins host Dr. Gopi Shah to educate listeners on the diagnosis and manage ...  عرض المزيد

This week on the BackTable ENT podcast, Dr. Gopi Shah and Dr. Amanda Stapleton, a pediatric otolaryngologist from UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, chat about the unique challenges of treating pediatric sinus and skull base diseases, orbital complications, and biofilm-cover ...  عرض المزيد

Andrew is joined by very special guest, neuroradiolgist Frank Gaillard, for a chat about posterior fossa tumours and his latest brain tumour course. Topics include ependymoma, choroid plexus papilloma, medulloblastoma, pilocytic astrocytoma, haemangioblastoma and more! Posterior ...  عرض المزيد