Food impaction during the holidays
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is a bit specific to the holidays! While these days are filled with family, friends, laughter, food, and drinks, in healthcare, we know there's another side most don't see.
We know that congestive heart failure exacerbations increase due to an increased salt intake. Patients come in with holiday heartburn and gastroenteritis from food that was left out. But, there's one diagnosis thats the scourge of the holidays...
If the holidays were Santa, then this diagnosis is the grinch that stole your admission. Today, we'll be discussing esophageal issues, primarily we'll be talking about food impactions.
This is a quick and low down dirty talk about what to do with food impactions and the background regarding certain esophageal emergencies!
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the med geeks podcast. I'm your host Dr. |
| 0:04.0 | Niket Son Paul here with another fun-filled episode to help you treat your |
| 0:09.5 | patients better. This episode is a little bit specific to the time of the year for |
| 0:15.9 | all in. It is the holidays and that is a great time of year. Everyone is in the |
| 0:22.2 | holiday spirit and cheer. People are looking |
| 0:25.1 | forward to spending time together. Wonderful drinks, lots of great food, and |
| 0:30.5 | merriment amongst friends and family. |
| 0:34.0 | But in health care we know that there's always another side to the coin. |
| 0:37.2 | During the holidays we also see what the holidays can do to patients. |
| 0:41.8 | We know that congestive heart failure goes up because people eat too much |
| 0:45.0 | salt. Patients come in with holiday heartburn. Food that gets left out causes |
| 0:50.9 | gastrointestinal arthritis. And there is one diagnosis. causes gastrantoritis. |
| 0:57.4 | And there is one diagnosis that is the scourge of the holidays. That's right. |
| 0:58.2 | If the holidays were Santa, which it pretty much is, |
| 1:01.6 | sort of symbolically, this is the Grinch that stole your |
| 1:06.0 | admission that's right we're going to be talking today about some esashtagiel |
| 1:10.7 | issues and primarily we're going to be talking about food impactions. |
| 1:16.1 | That's right. |
| 1:17.1 | This is a quick but low-down dirty talk about what to do about food impactions and sort of the background on certain esophageal emergencies. |
| 1:26.3 | I know a lot of you were like, well I thought this was going to be a fun talk about the holidays. |
| 1:30.3 | Maybe he didn't have a great holiday and he was growing up and this is his way of getting rid of it. |
| 1:34.0 | No, no, I had a wonderful holiday season when I was growing up. |
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