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Dr. Brittany Chapman begins her discussion with a few definitions like provoked and unprovoked seizures, as well as epilepsy. She then details the work up for seizures along with treatment. After, she reviews special considerations for women with epilepsy.
Read MoreLouisville Lectures's most requested lecturer is back! Dr. Lorrel Brown presents Cardiac Arrest and her journey to discover whether education can improve the outcomes. First, she explains the postulated reasons for the variability in survival following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest as well as the gaps between the best practices and real world practices with regards to CPR. She then defines CPR skill retention rates under current methods of instruction and finishes with different ways in which ongoing educational efforts seek to improve outcomes following cardiac arrest.
Read MoreIn this Presentation Dr. Boris D. Lushniak discusses the core public health functions: assessment and monitoring of the health of communities and populations at risk, the formulation of public policies, and to assure that all populations have access to appropriate and cost-effective care. Keeping these functions relavent throughout his talk, Dr. Lushniak discusses various skin cancers and conditions. He then concludes his presentation explaining how dermatology fits into the public health model.
Read MoreDr. Hillard M. Lazarus presents "Allogeneic Transplants: No Such Thing as a Normal Donor" but first explaining how allogeneic blood and marrow donors are not normal patients: they're not patients at all! These donors are altruistic persons who are saving a life as well as putting themselves at risk for incurring problems. Dr. Lazarus goes into great detail about Allogeneic Transplants and the importance of this discussion.
Read MoreIn Controlling Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria in the Healthcare Setting: The Role of the Hospital Epidemiologist with Dr. Forest W. Arnold, Dr. Arnold covers the MDR control program as well as strategies to prevent and manage MDR.
Read MoreDr. Churchwell takes listeners on a journey through different mentors he has had throughout his life beginning with his childhood to his current career. With each mentor, he provides insight to their character and teaching methods specific to how they learned things themselves. Dr. Churchwell emphasizes the care each of his mentors had to their patients and friends and how their intelligence was translated through their dedication and passion.
Read MoreEric Baker presents Physician Burnout by first discussing burnout in terms of psychology from occupational burnout to job burnout. He then explains statistics involved with physician burnout through various graphs and charts comparing different scenarios from med students and residents compared to the general population as well as how burnout differs between physicians.
Read MoreDr. Dmitry Abramov presents patient evaluations for advanced heart failure therapies by first discussing the classification system for heart failure severity. He then presents different opinions available for patients with advanced heart failure. After, he explains how to identify end stage heart failure as well as candidacy for advanced failure therapy.
Read MoreIn this video, Dr. Jennifer Potter talks about why questions on patient social history should include patient identities, adverse life experiences, and coping strategies. She then identifies questions one may ask to learn about these areas. Afterwards she outlines the 10 "P' methods, and ends by describing how to perform a pelvic exam.
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