#229 Hotcakes: COVID on steroids, statins over 75, short duration DAPT

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Join us for an extra-hot summer episode featuring our critical appraisal expert, Rahul Ganatra MD, MPH @rbganatra. Prepare to marvel as he breaks down his recent tweetorial on the RECOVERY trial of dexamethasone for COVID-19; to gasp as Paul Williams updates us on statins and ASCVD prevention and to be enthralled by the dulcet tones of Matt Watto explaining the latest research on DAPT vs. monotherapy with ticagrelor. Bonus: a new hotcakes rating scale has arrived!

Credits

Producer: Sarah Phoebe Roberts
Show Notes by: Sarah Phoebe Roberts
Writer: Rahul Ganatra MD, Sarah Phoebe Roberts, Matthew Watto MD, Paul Williams MD
Cover Art: Matthew Watto MD
Hosts: Rahul Ganatra MD, Matthew Watto MD, Paul Williams MD
Editor: Matthew Watto MD (written materials); Clair Morgan of nodderly.com

Sponsor: VCU Health CE

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Time Stamps

00:00 Intro
02:15 Picks of the Week
06:15 New Hotcakes rating scale
09:20 RECOVERY trial
17:30 Rapid home-testing for COVID
20:15 Statins and ASCVD prevention
32:30 Ticagrelor monotherapy after ACS
41:30 Outro

Picks of the week

Paul: U Talkin' Talking Heads 2 My Talking Head podcast
Sarah: New hotcakes scale!
Rahul: Chromeo’s new Quarantine Casanova album
Watto: 30 Rock season 1, episode 3 “Blind Date”

Transcript

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0:18.7	Pretty much we aren't responsible if you screw up, you should always do your own homework
0:20.5	and let us know when we're wrong.
0:31.0	Paul, we're back.
0:33.8	This is another hotcakes.
0:34.8	It's been a little while.
0:36.2	And we actually kept on track tonight.
0:38.6	With us is the great Dr. Rahul Ganatra and our fearless producer, Sarah Phoebe Roberts.
0:45.6	Before we get to them and our picks of the week, Paul, can you tell people what do we do
0:49.6	on this show?
0:51.2	Such a great question.
0:52.6	Typically, so who we are is we are the Intercom medicine podcast.
0:56.1	So what we do is we interview experts to meet you with clinical pearls and practice changing
1:00.1	knowledge.
1:01.1	But this time the experts are us question mark.
1:04.2	I mean, I feel like Rahul has some expertise and then we sort of muddle through some cases
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