This week's topics include acetaminophen in pregnancy and ASD, the impact of canceling fudning for clinical trials, supplementing potassium in people with ICDs, and mRNA flu vaccines.
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This week's topics include acetaminophen in pregnancy and ASD, the impact of canceling fudning for clinical trials, supplementing potassium in people with ICDs, and mRNA flu vaccines.
Kids’ Health, Life Expectancy and Heart Risk Calculators
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13 minutes 17 seconds
4 months ago
Kids’ Health, Life Expectancy and Heart Risk Calculators
This week's topics include a comprehensive look at kid's health in the US, remaining life expectancy deficits after Covid, heart risk calculators in different ethnicities, and screening for hep C in the ED.
Program notes:
0:40 AHA risk calculator in various ethnicities
1:40 Works well in all of them
2:40 Women and ethnicities
3:00 Hepatitis C screening in EDs
4:01 Many ethnicities represented
5:01 Identified as having the virus
6:01 Once they tested only 24% were referred
7:01 It was free testing
7:40 Failing US children
8:41 78% more likely to die in the US
9:41 Some of these are preventable
10:24 Life expectancy after the pandemic
11:24 Remains almost a year deficit
12:24 Deaths from overdose declining
13:17 End
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This week's topics include acetaminophen in pregnancy and ASD, the impact of canceling fudning for clinical trials, supplementing potassium in people with ICDs, and mRNA flu vaccines.
