Rapid fire: High Value Care

Welcome back Rounds Table Listeners!   For episode 3, we have two very special guests co-hosting. Welcome back to Drs. Amol Verma and Kieran Quinn. This episode, they discuss 4 articles that peaked their interest related to high value care.   Classic Rapid Fire format…4 papers…here we go! Can care guided by patient priorities by associated with

Surprise! We’re back…and talking all things cardiovascular…

  Rounds Table Listeners, we’ve got some good news for you… the Rounds Table is back! John and I have decided to pick up where Kieran and his excellent team left off; to continue to bring you regular podcasts on the latest and greatest internal medicine research. This reboot wouldn’t be possible without the continued

The Grand Finale of The Rounds Table

This week we bring you a very special episode, the final episode of The Rounds Table podcast. This episode is dedicated to honouring the show and its development over the past five seasons. The show has had an incredibly successful past five years – the podcast has reached an international audience and has been downloaded

REPLAY: Sugar and Spice – Canagliflozin and Renal Outcomes and Quality of Life in Atrial Fibrillation

Kieran Quinn, general internist and palliative care physician in Toronto, is joined by Emily Hughes, the producer of the show and soon-to-be Internal Medicine resident at the University of Toronto on this week’s episode of The Rounds Table! Together they are covering canagliflozin and renal outcomes, and quality of life among patients with atrial fibrillation receiving

Fire It Up: Delayed tPA, Lipids and Cardiovascular Outcomes, Stroke Prevention, and Fournier’s Gangrene with SGLT2 Inhibitors

Michael Fralick and John Fralick, general internists in Toronto, are back on The Rounds Table and they are covering four articles in a rapid-fire style.  They discuss the use of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) up to 9 hours after stroke onset, nonfasting versus fasting lipids and cardiovascular outcomes, the use of dabigatran for stroke prevention,

Slow Motion: Magnesium in Afib and Fall-Related Injuries with Sleep Aids

Christopher Giuliano, clinical pharmacist, is hosting this week’s episode of The Rounds Table alongside Insaf Mohamad, ambulatory care clinical pharmacist in Internal Medicine.  Together they are covering treatment of atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response with magnesium and falls risk with trazadone and benzodiazepines in patients with insomnia. Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac

A Total Eclipse: Treatment of Status Epilepticus and Aclidinium Bromide in COPD

Freddy Frost, research fellow in cystic fibrosis in Liverpool, and Alex Pickard, trainee in acute and emergency medicine in South London, are back on The Rounds Table this week. They are covering treatment of paediatric convulsive status epilepticus and the effect of aclidinium bromide on cardiovascular events and exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Infectious Love: Coronary Angiography in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and Risk of HIV Transmission in Serodifferent Gay Couples

Jonathan Gravel, family medicine resident at the University of Toronto and soon-to-be emergency medicine resident, is joined by Max Deschner, a resident in Internal Medicine at Western University.  Together they are covering coronary angiography after cardiac arrest without ST-elevation (COACT trial) and the risk of HIV transmission through condomless sex in serodifferent gay couples. Ischemic

Sugar and Spice: Canagliflozin and Renal Outcomes and Quality of Life in Atrial Fibrillation

Kieran Quinn, general internist and palliative care physician in Toronto, is joined by Emily Hughes, the producer of the show and soon-to-be Internal Medicine resident at the University of Toronto on this week’s episode of The Rounds Table! Together they are covering canagliflozin and renal outcomes, and quality of life among patients with atrial fibrillation receiving

REPLAY: Are Your Vitamins Vital? Cardiorespiratory Fitness on Mortality and Vitamin Supplementation for Prevention of Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease

Katie Wiskar, fellow in General Internal Medicine at the University of British Columbia, and Kate Shoults, general internist in the Greater Vancouver Area, are joining us on The Rounds Table this week!  They are covering the association between cardiorespiratory fitness and long-term mortality, and vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids and the prevention of cancer

Left my Heart in CABANA: TAVRs, Atrial Fibrillation, and Acute Coronary Syndrome

Michael Fralick and John Fralick, both general internists in Toronto, are on The Rounds Table this week. In classic fashion, they are covering four articles in a rapid-fire style. They discuss transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in low surgical risk patients, antiplatelet and anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation (AF) and acute coronary syndrome (ACS) with percutaneous

Catch Your Breath: Bag-Mask Ventilation During Intubation & Liberal Oxygen Therapy in Acute Illness

Paxton Bach and Katie Wiskar, general internists in Vancouver, are back this week on The Rounds Table. Together they cover bag-mask ventilation during intubation of adults in intensive care units, and liberal versus conservative oxygen therapy in acutely ill adult patients. In the non-operating room setting, some recommendations regarding rapid-sequence intubation suggest avoiding bag-mask ventilation

There Is No Comparison: Peri-Procedural Bridging in VTE and Reversal of Factor Xa Inhibitors with Andexanet Alfa

Christopher Giuliano and Sean McConachie, both Internal Medicine clinical pharmacists, host this week’s episode on The Rounds Table.  This week they share articles on peri-procedural bridging in patients with venous thromboembolism and the reversal of factor Xa inhibitors with andexanet alfa. Bridging is commonly performed for interruption of vitamin K antagonists in the peri-procedural setting. 

Get Up & Go: Exercise Interventions for Functional Decline and Nephrology Referrals for CKD

Andre Maddison, fellow in general internal medicine at Western University, is hosting this week’s episode on The Rounds Table alongside Erin Spicer, general internist also at Western University. Together they are covering the effect of an exercise intervention on functional decline in very elderly patients and the mortality benefit associated with outpatient nephrology referrals in

Bad to the Bone: Oral Antibiotics for Orthopedic Infections and Lung Ultrasound for Decompensated Heart Failure

Katie Wiskar, GIM fellow at the University of British Columbia, and Paxton Bach, general internist in Vancouver are back on The Rounds Table.  This week they are covering oral versus intravenous antibiotics for bone and joint infections (OVIVA trial) and lung ultrasound integrated with clinical assessment for diagnosing acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF). Complex orthopedic

Contamination & Communication: Postdischarge MRSA Decolonization and Web-Based Decision Aids in the ICU

Kieran Quinn and Emily Hughes host this week’s episode of The Rounds Table. They discuss decolonization to reduce postdischarge infection risk among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers and the effects of a web-based decision aid for surrogate decision makers of patients with prolonged mechanical ventilation. MRSA is the most common cause of skin, soft-tissue and

OPTICal Illusions: Apixaban for Prevention of VTE and Omadacycline for Community-Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia

Freddy Frost, research fellow in cystic fibrosis in Liverpool, and Alex Pickard, trainee in acute and emergency medicine in South London, return to The Rounds Table this week.  Together they cover apixaban therapy to prevent venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients with cancer, and omadacycline for treatment of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (the OPTIC trial). Patients with