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The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

#288 LIVE! Neutropenic Fever featuring Dr. Susan Seo

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

We’ve got a neutropenic fever and the only cure is...more cowbell? LIVE! It’s neutropenic fever (aka febrile neutropenia) deconstructed with infectious diseases expert, Dr. Susan Seo (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center). Topics: identifying low vs high risk patients, initial labs & imaging, empiric antibiotic therapy, when to add antifungals, de-escalation, and the G-CSF controversy.

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Credits

  • Writer and Producer: Matthew Watto MD, FACP
  • Infographic: Edison Jyang
  • Cover Art: Kate Grant MBChb, MRCGP
  • Hosts: Matthew Watto MD, FACP; Paul Williams MD, FACP
  • Reviewer: Matthew Watto MD, FACP
  • Editor: Matthew Watto MD (written materials); Clair Morgan of nodderly.com
  • Guest: Susan Seo MD

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Show Segments
  • Intro, disclaimer, guest bio
  • Guest one-liner, Picks of the Week*
  • Case from Kashlak; Definitions
  • Initial workup for neutropenic fever
  • Low risk neutropenic fever
  • High risk neutropenic fever
  • When to add antifungal coverage, G-CSF
  • Audience questions
  • Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode of The Curb Siders is sponsored by the American College of Physicians, all new CME 100 video package.

0:07.6

Learn and earn with 75 hours of virtual scientific lectures from the Internal Medicine Meeting 2021,

0:14.6

plus an exclusive 25 bonus CME sessions.

0:18.2

You can get nearly three years of access. Order now at ACPOnline.org-100curb.

0:26.1

That's ACPOnline.org-100curb and use the code 100curb.

0:33.5

The Curb Siders podcast is for entertainment, education, and information purposes only.

0:40.6

And the topics discussed should not be used solely at the Diet of Street,

0:42.4

or prevent any diseases or conditions. For the more the views and statements expressed on

0:45.1

the spot, guests are solely those of those, and should not be interpreted to reflect

0:46.8

official policy or position of any entity aside from possibly cash-like moral hospital and

0:49.5

to affiliate outreach programs. If indeed there are any, in fact there are none.

0:52.1

Pretty much we aren't sponsored if you screw up, you should always be your own homework and let's know where we're wrong.

0:54.9

Well Paul, this uh, it feels a little weird starting this way, but welcome back to the Curb Siders.

1:11.2

Uh, the audience at home can't see this, but we are doing a live talk talking about February on

1:16.0

Newtropenia with a great guest Dr. Susan So, but Paul, can you first tell people what isn't that we

1:23.5

do on the Curb Siders? And it's been a while since I asked you, has the, what's the meaning of life

1:28.4

has it changed? No, it remains 42, thank you for asking. Yeah, it's, it's for, um, yeah, that's

1:34.6

the usual odd energy of a live presentation, even though we're zooming it up. Um, but anyway,

1:38.4

you were nice to ask what we do. We are the internal medicine podcast. We use expert

1:42.0

interview, clinical roles and practice changing knowledge. And as you mentioned, we have the

1:45.8

amazing Dr. Susan So here to talk us through, uh, February on Newtropenia. Dr. So, as you know,

1:51.2

is an infectious disease physician at a more else lung canaryng cancer center in New York,

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