PodMed is a weekly podcast from Johns Hopkins Medicine. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Rick Lange, MD, professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins and vice chairman of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, look at the top medical stories of the week.
This week's topics include music in the ICU, predicting acute exacerbations of COPD, keeping an eye on MERS, and sequelae of childhood cancer treatment.
Program notes:
0:38 Music in the ICU
1:40 Slows brain waves
2:40 Inexpensive, doesn't interfere with care
3:30 Consequences of childhood cancer treatment
4:30 Specific follow up to treatment
5:31 About 50% of problems found with routine surveillance
6:05 MERS
7:05 All have severe respiratory symptoms
8:05 SARS-like illness
8:30 COPD exacerbations
9:30 Three measures of inflammation predictive
10:48 End
