Celebrating 1000 Medical Minutes

Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: Patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) are divided into three risk categories Low risk (non-massive PE): patients are stable Treatment: prescribe anticoagulants and discharge home Intermediate risk (submassive PE): patients are sta ...  Show more

Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: Burns range in complexity from minor first-degree burns to more severe full-thickness burns. Initial basic burn management: Run the burn under cool running water for 20 minutes. Do not scrub the skin. Do not use ice water. Ideally ...  Show more

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 ...  Show more

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 ...  Show more

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 ...  Show more

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 ...  Show more