Open Access Medical Education
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Dr. Sally Suliman presents "Interstitial Lung Disease" by first introducing the classification of ILDs. She then defines the micro-anatomy of the lung as well as clinical signs and symptoms of ILDs. After, she discusses testing and finally, IPF diagnosis and treatment.
Read MoreDr. Christine Bridges presents "Advanced Care Planning" by first defining advanced care planning. She then discusses the available documents, billing and coding, as well as clinical pearls.
Read MoreDr. Liza Cholin defines Acute Kidney Injury and discusses diagnostic tests. She presents prerenal, intrinsic, and postrenal acute kidney injury and after, the indications for urgent dialysis.
Read MoreDr. Gunjan Garg presents "Tubulointerstitial Disease" by first discussing pathophysiology and epidemiology. She then presents its diagnosis and evaluation as well as various causes. After, she discusses management and Ace Board questions. Dr. Garg does this through case based learning.
Read MoreDr. Shahab Ghafghazi presents "Valvular Heart Disease" and focuses mainly on aortic stenosis through various definitions and case reports.
Read MoreDr. Travis Huffman gives a quick overview of Hypertensive Crisis, Hypertensive Urgency vs. Hypertensive Emergency and management of both Markedly eEevated BP and HTN Emergency/Crisis.
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Louisville Lectures would like to wish everyone a happy new year! 2018 has been a year of new beginnings, all thanks to you! Because of you, we have expanded into Little Lectures provided by our residents, with more to come. We have also added our PulmCC blog, run by the Pulmonary & Critical Care Division here at the University of Louisville. We hope to continute to provide free open access medical education in the upcoming years.
Thank you, and stay tuned! We have a lot planned for 2019. Here’s a hint: procedures.
Sincerely,
Louisville Lectures
Audry Hawkins is back to discuss antimicrobial stewardship in pneumonia. She starts with comparing differences in guidelines and recent primary literature on empiric treatment of pneumonia. Hawkins then evaluates appropriate empiric step-down therapy and durations and after, discusses the nuances in guideline recommendations for pneumonia.
Crystal Heishman presents an introduction on the broad topic of Infection Prevention. Heishman presents how to identify methods to prevent infectious disease transmission and how to implement device related infection prevention strategies for CAUTI and CLABSI. After, she discusses appropriate testing requirements for C.Diff.
Dr. Bryan Moffett presents "Sodium Derangements in the Medical Patient" by first differentiating the difference between total body sodium and sodium concentration. The then breaks down the physiology, causes, and treatment of hyponatremia.
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Dr. Craig McClain presents "Management of Alcohol-Related Hepatitis" through various case studies, as well as an overview and diagnosis. He then discusses research findings related to alcoholic hepatitis and after, Dr. McClain explains the therapies being validated for the treatment of AH, their complications, as well as transplantation.
Read MoreDr. Bilal Jalil presents part one of three talks on Point of Care Ultrasound. He first discusses the need to take care of the ultrasound machine by keeping it clean and placing probes onto their side cups. After, Dr. Jalil goes into the history of the ultrasound and then into Point of Care Ultrasound.
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