PA Boards 66: Don't give steroids in pneumonia! (just kidding, maybe)
Medgeeks Clinical Review Podcast
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🗓️ 7 August 2015
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Should you give steroids in patients with pneumonia? It depends:
For the boards? No!
In clinical practice? It depends.
Do I? Yup!!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 66 of the physician assistant boards.com podcast |
| 0:05.8 | Hopefully everybody is having an amazing Friday. Hopefully everybody has an amazing weekend ahead of them |
| 0:11.2 | Today's episode. I'm going to be speaking or I'm going to be |
| 0:14.1 | answering somebody's question. So this question was from Dylan and he asked |
| 0:20.1 | this question over through the website and if you haven't already and you have a |
| 0:23.2 | question it doesn't matter what type of question it is it could be a medical question it could be |
| 0:27.3 | a board exam question it could be something about clinical practice anything at all |
| 0:31.8 | go ahead and go to the website physician |
| 0:33.6 | assistant boards.com, head up to the right upper corner. It's the last tab and it's |
| 0:37.9 | titled Ask a Question. Go ahead and throw your question in there and I'll go ahead and |
| 0:41.8 | answer for you guys here on the podcast. |
| 0:43.7 | So this is from Dylan and Dylan says, hey Andrew, I had a question about steroids and pneumonia. |
| 0:49.5 | Do steroids help in the patient diagnosis, I'm sorry, do steroids help in the patient diagnosis I'm sorry do steroids help in the patient |
| 0:54.7 | diagnosed with pneumonia I'm a little confused on this one thanks for all you do I |
| 0:58.6 | appreciate it Dylan so we're gonna answer Dylan's question here now |
| 1:02.3 | there's there's three answers. I'm going to give the board answer. I'm going to give the clinical practice answer and I'm going to give my answers to what I personally do. So really it depends on who you ask. For the boards, you're going to answer no steroids. |
| 1:15.6 | For the boards, steroids don't do anything. They don't decrease mortality, morbidity. |
| 1:20.4 | So the answer for the boards are no. The answer for your exam |
| 1:23.9 | question is no. In clinical practice it really depends. Now me personally yes I |
| 1:29.7 | use them. Now let's go into a little bit more detail as to why I answer the way I answered. |
| 1:34.6 | So there are a few trials here that I'm going to just quickly highlight. |
| 1:38.0 | There was a trial out in Switzerland with 785 patients. |
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