Thyroid Disease: Behind The Knife Medical Student and Intern Survival Guide

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

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🗓️ 16 August 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Our last medical student and intern survival guide episode. I am sure this won't be the last you will hear of Dr. Georgoff and Dr. Nikolian on Behind The Knife.

Thanks to Dr. Patrick Georgoff and Dr. Vahagn Nikolian for their production of this episode.

You can contact them at:

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@georgoff

@VNikolian

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0:00.0	Behind the knife, the Surgery Podcast, where we take a behind the scenes intimate look at surgery
0:06.0	from leaders in the field. Welcome to our last podcast for the Behind the Knife Medical Student and Intern Survival
0:27.6	Guide. In this podcast series you focus on topics relevant to medical students
0:31.6	and surgical interns.
0:33.2	My name is Patrick Georgeoff and I'm Vahag Nikolion.
0:36.0	And we are your hosts.
0:37.7	We enjoy doing this podcast series and we're happy to have contributed to Behind the Knife.
0:42.1	So today we'll be closing out our series with a review of a topic that's often tested
0:46.8	and can at times be confusing, the thyroid gland.
0:50.4	That's right.
0:51.0	We hope to offer a simplified approach to the management of thyroid disorders.
0:55.4	And we're going to start with some basics of a hog. When a patient presents with a thyroid nodule,
1:01.7	what are some of the key components to the work up?
1:04.4	So there are three big things you want to do.
1:06.5	Get a T. A. SAGE level, get an ultrasound of the neck, and perform a fine needle aspiration.
1:13.0	Great.
1:14.0	So let's break those down.
1:15.0	First, T.S.H.
1:16.0	Tell me all about T.S.H.
1:18.0	All patients who present with a thyroid mass should get a T.S.
1:22.0	If the T.S.H. is low this could suggest a hyper-functioning
1:25.9	nodule. To confirm this you can perform a radio-iodine imaging study, also known as
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