The lively pulse of Primary Care (with a PA spin) in an entertaining, monthly podcast.

We all know what to do in pre-op visits for non-cardiac surgery. But guidelines on the pre-op management of cardiac surgery patients are hard to find. Neda sat down with Dr. Michael Grant, a cardiac anesthesiologist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, to learn what we need to worry about (and what our pre-op evaluations should include) when our patients go off to cardiac surgery.

It all started when Paul and Neda researched porphyria to answer a mailbag question. Paul couldn’t get the song ‘Ophelia’ by the Lumineers out of his head. So he did what any self-respecting lyrical genius would do and wrote a different version of the song. Hippo Education’s own Melinda Hershey brought her vocal talent to the collaboration, and voila - ‘Oh, Porphyria!’ was born. 6.2.6

Post-contrast AKI (or contrast induced nephropathy as it used to be called) is one of those hot-button issues in modern medicine. Is it really a thing? Was it ever, really? Neda sits down with Dr. Salim Rezaie of Rebel EM for an invigorating conversation about this controversial topic and what the literature actually tells us about it.  6.2.6

Given the recent spike of VAPI (vaping associated pulmonary injury) cases, our HIPPO medical editorial team review the clinical presentation and latest management recommendations for this lung disease. Mizuho Morrison and Sol Behar discuss a recent case, and review the hot-off-the-press published CDC health alert. Take a listen!