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Meningitis
17/04/2024 Duração: 01h37minWhether you are working in suburban Melbourne or a refugee camp in Bangladesh, bacterial meningitis is a diagnosis that sends shivers up doctor’s spines and makes lumbar puncture needles suddenly impossible to find. Join us as we demystify that most … Continue reading →
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Antimicrobial Stewardship
24/03/2023 Duração: 01h16minTired of getting yellow cards from the infectious diseases team for prescribing meropenem for 3 months? Sick of Scott appearing behind you with a cat o’ nine tails to administer the requisite antibiotic punishment? Well this episode has it all … Continue reading →
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Pacemakers
14/02/2023 Duração: 01h08min2023 got you feeling out of rhythm? Finding yourself a bit behind the beat when it comes to pacemakers? Pour yourself a frosty, frothy, fibre-filled glass of your favourite plum juice and strap on your electric earmuffs. We’re going charging … Continue reading →
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Hypothyroidism
28/01/2023 Duração: 55minYou know that feeling when you find a surprise $100 note in a coat pocket you haven’t worn for a while? Yeah, we don’t either. But we can imagine it feels kind of like discovering we have a MedConversations episode … Continue reading →
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Febrile neutropenia
28/11/2022 Duração: 01h13minIntimidated about caring for immunosuppressed patients full of mibs, mabs or stem cell jabs? Here is the infection protection guide to investigate and manage your patient’s neutropenic slump – without resorting to well-evidenced super foods like goji berries or sheep … Continue reading →
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Depression Part 3 – Management
13/10/2022 Duração: 01h26minPsychiatry registrar Dr Dean Whitty is back on the MedConversational airwaves again to talk with Bec about taming the black dog in our final ep of the three-part depression series. Dean’s soothing voice takes us on a nice guided tour … Continue reading →
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Perioperative Medication Management
20/09/2022 Duração: 59minThe MedConversations crew may not fly the surgical flag very much but we love flying into the melee of perioperative management. So get peri with Bec and Scott as we dance around and about* the drug chart of the pre-op … Continue reading →
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Hypertension Part 3 (Assessment, Management and Secondary Causes)
23/05/2022 Duração: 01h34minWeary traveller, let Rahul, Bec and Jupiter’s 79 moons be your guides as we haul you up the third and final segment of the hypertension series. At the summit we take you on a high pressure hike through the assessment … Continue reading →
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COVID-19 – Clinical Diagnosis and Management
23/01/2022 Duração: 01h32minThis episode is for everyone who is sick of COVID-19 but needs to finally learn how to diagnosis and manage it, rather than how to out-argue your uncle about whether the plan-demic will end democracy. We go through diagnosis, testing, … Continue reading →
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Gram Negative Bacteria and Treatment
03/01/2022 Duração: 01h24minNasty Bugs. You gotta treat ‘em! In this, truly, tremendous second antibiotic episode, Sleepy Scott, Deranged Davor, Crooked Bec (and Obama Zala) cover all the gram negative bacteria – from microbiology to antibiotics and resistance. Believe me, you’ll be tired … Continue reading →
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Depression part 2 – evaluation
11/11/2021 Duração: 01h25minThis is part 2 of our series on depression. Davor and Dean chat about how to evaluate someone you think might have depression. As fascinating as part 1 was, this is much more clinically relevant. Filled with Dean’s wisdom and … Continue reading →
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Depression overview – definitions, epidemiology, pathophysiology
11/10/2021 Duração: 01h10minThis episode is a bit of new thing we’re trying – interviews with our friends! As we’ve progressed in our careers, we’ve all started specializing and become increasingly unqualified to talk about large swathes of medicine. On the flipside, our … Continue reading →
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Gram Positive Bacteria
12/09/2021 Duração: 01h15minWelcome seeker. All the bacteria. All the antibiotics. Join us on our ambitious multi-episode trek to summarise all bacteria and their treatment starting this episode with gram positives. Your journey will teach the ancient wisdom that tazocin does not fix … Continue reading →
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Hypertension Part 2 (Drugs and their Mechanisms)
07/04/2021 Duração: 54minCurious about what all those party drugs you’ve been taking with your grandma down at the local aged care facility are? Wondering why you always need to cough after you’ve taken your morning ramipril? Jump on board the high pressure … Continue reading →
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Radiculopathy
19/03/2021 Duração: 01h01minEpisode on radiculopathy! Davor, Bec and Scott sit down and chat about nerve roots. Well, to be honest, it’s more like Davor relentlessly interrogates Bec and Rahul about radiculopathy for an hour. Although ethically questionable, it appears to have worked … Continue reading →
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Hypertension Part 1
31/01/2021 Duração: 58minWe’re back with a mammoth topic. Often consigned to a 1-liner in the past history – it’s time to find out just how little you know about the silent killer. Much like the mounds of hair that accumulate in your … Continue reading →
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Low back pain
21/11/2020 Duração: 51minLow back pain! Rahul and Davor discuss one of the most common presentations in medicine. What are the most common causes? What are the most serious causes? Who do you image? What on earth does Rahul mean when he says … Continue reading →
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Functional Neurology
31/10/2020 Duração: 56minThere’s been a lot of demand for off in the weeds neurology podcasts. Luckily we have our arcane neurology specialist Davor ‘The Slovenian Sledgehammer’ Pavlin-Premrl ready and waiting. Rahul and Davor discuss cartesian dualism and hysteria, and then after about … Continue reading →
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Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
09/08/2020 Duração: 51minWe’re back in the COVID era all the way from dirty Melbourne to breathe around your masks and cough on your food. Have you been fighting with your bed-partner about excessive nocturnal noise emissions? Struggling to stay alert whilst reviewing … Continue reading →
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Infective Endocarditis
05/03/2020 Duração: 44minDrugs. Death. Hidden infections. Bad mix tapes.No, you’re not tripping out on LSD at your older uncle’s mail-order bride wedding, you’re just listening to MedConversations’ latest educational podcast packed full of infective endocarditis wisdom and copyright infringing references to one … Continue reading →