#245 COVID Cakes: Masks, Home Testing, Anticoagulation, Vaccines

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science, Higher Education, Education

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🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Learn about the latest in COVID-19: Do masks prevent infection?, SARS-CoV-2 home testing, vaccine advice, and how to prevent and treat VTE in COVID-19. Join us as our tzar-of-clinical-appraisal Curbsider/internist/epidemiologist Rahul Ganatra MD MPH (@rbganatra) talks us through the controversial DANMASK-19 trial, plus Watto reports back on his conversation with Dr Parth Rali @parthrali (Temple Lung Center) who helped write the CHEST anticoagulation guidelines for COVID-19.

Credits

Producer: Deb Gorth ScM
Show Notes, Cover Art, and CME by: Deb Gorth ScM and Matthew Watto MD
Written by: Matthew Watto MD, Paul Williams MD, and Rahul Ganatra MD MPH
Hosts: Rahul Ganatra MD MPH, Stuart Brigham MD; Matthew Watto MD, FACP; Paul Williams MD, FACP
Editor: Matthew Watto MD (written materials); Clair Morgan of nodderly.com

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Time Stamps

00:00 Intro, disclaimer, Picks of the week* and Vaccines
08:00 DANMASK-19
25:00 Anticoagulation in COVID-19
35:06 COVID-19 home PCR testing
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0:36.4	screw up you should always do your own homework and let's know when we're on.
0:49.0	Welcome back to the curbsiders and Paul that sweet sweet silence without interruption.
0:54.8	That means that Dr. Stewart Kent Breggum is not here tonight. We of course miss him greatly.
1:00.3	This of course is the curbsiders. This is a COVID-Cakes show where we'll be covering a bunch of topics
1:05.6	and we have with us the great Dr. Rahul Ganatra who is our resident expert on critical appraisal.
1:12.2	Paul would you remind the audience what is it we do on this show and maybe remind them about
1:17.7	getting credit for listening to it? Sure happy to as a reminder Matt and I have to say it's actually
1:24.0	it's enjoyable to watch me watch you let me take that over it's enjoyable to watch you trip up
1:28.6	any absence of being roughed by Stewart it's something I enjoy every time that he's not with us
1:32.3	you're not quite sure what to do through yourself as you're waiting for the the shoot to drop but
1:36.1	in any case we are the internal medicine podcast most of the time we use expert interviews to
1:40.0	re-euclimate referrals and practice changing knowledge sometimes the experts are us even though
1:44.0	we are not experts most of us are not experts I think I think we all agree that Rahul will
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