Influenza - What you need to know for 2018
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Whether you're working in family practice, the emergency room, or urgent care - knowing this disease is a must! Today, you'll learn:
- Can influenza lead to AFIB?
- Who's at high risk for complications - don't miss this population!
- Do we need labs or imaging for patients with influenza?
- How to identify the septic patient at the bedside
- What do we do with the high risk patient, with influenza, who presents after the 48 hour window?
- When can your patient return to work?
- Case studies to drive these concepts home
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys? I hope all of you had a Merry Christmas and you're having a great year so far. |
| 0:04.0 | I know it's been a while since our last podcast in our YouTube video and I want to apologize for that. |
| 0:08.4 | I just recently lost my father and my world got turned upside down. |
| 0:11.6 | Looking back on 2017 though, I still have a lot of |
| 0:14.0 | things to be thankful for. I'm so thankful for my family and my friends and I'm |
| 0:17.6 | thankful that I get to be a part of PA boards. Going in 2018 you can't expect |
| 0:22.0 | weekly YouTube videos and podcast once again |
| 0:24.3 | we're working on a lot of new material behind the scenes and I cannot wait for what |
| 0:28.0 | 2018 is going to bring with that said today's topic is going to be about the |
| 0:31.9 | flu we're going to talk about how these |
| 0:33.4 | patients will present, what imaging studies and lab tests to consider ordering, and finally, how do we treat |
| 0:38.1 | these patients? The flu is an acute respiratory illness caused by influenza A and B viruses and mainly occurs in the winter months. |
| 0:44.4 | Flu season begins in October and lasts until March, |
| 0:47.2 | with the majority of cases occurring in December, January, and February. |
| 0:50.3 | Now this virus is largely going to be transmitted from person to person via respiratory |
| 0:54.2 | secretions. For example, let's say I'm sick with the flu and I'm coughing and sneezing up large |
| 0:58.7 | particles of the flu virus into the air. Well since these large particles typically do not remain suspended in the air |
| 1:04.0 | floating around and they can only travel approximately six feet, you are most likely not going |
| 1:09.2 | to get the flu if I'm coughing in your direction and you're 10 feet away. |
| 1:12.6 | So transmission of the flu from one individual to the next |
| 1:15.9 | generally requires close contact with the infected individual. |
| 1:19.1 | Such as family members living close together, clinicians examining these patients or the child |
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