In this episode, Dr. Ravi Mehta and Dr. Marlies Ostermann discuss the controversy around defining the optimal timing for starting dialysis in critically ill patients. Dr. Osterman highlights the most relevant parameters that influence when to offer, start, and stop dialysis and gives a comprehensive review of the recent trials on the timing of dialysis. And ... Show More
Oct 28
Episode 28: APOL1 Screening and Early Detection - Patient and Clinician Perspectives
In the final episode of KDIGO’s three-part Conversations in Nephrology series on APOL1 kidney disease, host Kirk Campbell, MD (University of Pennsylvania, United States), speaks with Titilayo Ilori, MD (Boston University, United States), and kidney health advocate Joshua Albright ... Show More
13m 30s
Oct 28
Episode 27: Management of Patients with APOL1 Kidney Disease
In this second installment of KDIGO’s three-part podcast series on APOL1 kidney disease, host Kirk Campbell, MD (University of Pennsylvania, United States), welcomes Barry Freedman, MD (Wake Forest University School of Medicine, United States) for a practical discussion on patien ... Show More
19m 15s
Oct 28
Episode 26: Burden and Pathophysiology of APOL1 Kidney Disease
This is the first episode of a three-part KDIGO Conversations in Nephrology series on APOL1 kidney disease. Host Kirk Campbell, MD (University of Pennsylvania, United States), speaks with Bessie Young, MD (University of Washington, United States) about the discovery, burden, and ... Show More
13 m
Aug 2021
Testing...1-2-3...Testing, The Evolution of Viral Respiratory Testing on the Front Lines of EM
Is it COVID-19, the flu, or something else? In this episode, Dr. Sean-Xavier Neath joins us to discuss the evolution of diagnostic testing for respiratory infections in the ED, through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. This episode is supported by BioMerieux.
23m 21s
Jan 2023
179. When the filters start to falter: An approach to CKD management
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/149353/open_sms">Send us a text</a></p><p>In this episode, we review the staging, management and treatment options for chronic kidney disease. Though most patients may present asymptomatically at first, w ... Show More
19m 52s
Apr 2023
191. You put me in a state of SHOCK
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/149353/open_sms">Send us a text</a></p><p>In this episode, we review the main causes of four different types of shock: hypovolemic, cardiac, obstructive and distributive (or vasoplegic). We discuss both i ... Show More
17m 5s
Oct 2020
#222 — A Pandemic of Incompetence
Sam Harris speaks with Nicholas Christakis about the Covid-19 pandemic. They discuss the breakdown of trust in institutions and experts, the corruption of science by politics, the ineptitude of the Trump administration in handling the pandemic, whether the gravity of Covid-19 has ... Show More
1h 5m