ambulatory care presentation/journal topic suggestions?
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Do you have any guidelines or restrictions? Is this for rotation and what kind of site are you at?
One thing that kinda jumps out at me is the approval of Pradaxa and maybe find a journal article comparing it to warfarin. This would be kinda good especially if you're working in an ambulatory care setting that has an anticoagulation clinic.
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the only restriction is that it should be a current topic. something thats been published within the last year. the rotation is at a clinic that treats anticoagulation, dyslipidemia, etc.
That is an amazing suggestion, the only problem is that I already did a presentation on that very topic in the past, unfortunately.
That is an amazing suggestion, the only problem is that I already did a presentation on that very topic in the past, unfortunately.
Hmm... Couple of ideas for dyslipidemia...
Livalo was recently FDA approved
Intensive lipid lowering therapy ie LDL < 70 and reversal of atherosclerosis
Jupiter study looking at statins as primary prevention of heart attack and stroke with ppl at high risk and high c reactive protein
they also take diabetes patients at the clinic.
youre awesome, i love those suggestions... i definitely owe you one. 🙂
also, i just noticed your avatar...hahaha
thank you for the suggestions and for the laugh
youre awesome, i love those suggestions... i definitely owe you one. 🙂
also, i just noticed your avatar...hahaha
thank you for the suggestions and for the laugh
No problem. I think the CRP thing is an interesting topic because I have a family member that is over 50, been a life long smoker and had borderline high cholesterol for some time untreated. They went for a CRP test along with a ton of other labs because of lower back pain and found the CRP to be 17! Rheumatology labs and everything else came back normal. From my research, having a high CRP only tells there's an inflammatory process going on somewhere in the body, doesn't necessarily mean Ischemic heart disease etc., but there are a lot of new studies showing that CRP > 3 is highly correlated with increased risk for heart disease and atherosclerosis. It was kinda neat too with the Crestor study in patients that didn't have high cholesterol. Essentially they saw that treatment lowered CRP and decreased chance of heart attack and stroke. This is still widely debatable in clinical guidelines and in practice. For my family member, since they have family risk factors and life time smoker and borderline high cholesterol anyway, I'm going to recommend they ask their doc about starting a statin anyway as primary prevention because generic statins are cheap and my family member has no contraindications to be on a statin. I mean I think if the government could, they'd put a little bit of a statin in our drinking water.
