ACEi talk.

A pharmacist from Blue Cross, Kim Moon, sent me an e-mail and told me she was a fan of the PBFluids and my and twitter. That, of course, instantly made her my newest bestie. She then asked me to do a webinar addressing common issues that prevent primary care doctors from prescribing ACEi/ARB to patients with diabetes. I agreed, anything for a fan of the blog.

A couple of months ago and long before the lecture was written she needed a title, so I threw out, “ACE inhibitors, the good, the bad, and the ugly”

Then I saw this tweet:

‘The good, the bad and the ugly’ appears in the title of over 450 scientific papers. Just sayin’ http://t.co/UvNkyXNLRN
— Dr John Weiner (@AllergyNet) June 9, 2014

How embarrassing. Well, here’s the show:

Link to video (740MB)
PDF (52.4MB) 
Keynote (132MB)

Streaming the video from google drive seems to be broken. Here is a forum describing the problem, and Google’s lack of response to the issue. My work around has been to pony up the $60 and join Vimeo plus.

Lecture on modern strategies to keep up to date in the medical literature. #FOAMed at Work.

I love it when fellows turn the tables on their attendings and school them on how the kids do it today.

Kamran Boka is currently a critical care fellow at Henry Ford Hospital but when he was a wee resident he worked with me at St John Hospital. This is an excellent lecture, make sure you check it out. Boka is fully engaged in the 21st century medical infosphere:

Check it out. He has important lessons for everyone.

World’s Best Potassium Lecture part 1 of 3

Once agin I have the honor of teaching the second year medical students at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine. I have 4 points of contact with the students:

  1. I get to run the first TBL of the renal section. It is on sodium and water
  2. I get to run an Acid-Base workshop
  3. I get to deliver a traditional Acid-Base lecture
  4. I get one hour to do potassium. Last year I tried to squeeze potassium, metabolic alkalosis and secondary/monogenic hypertension into that one hour. What a disaster. So this year I am going to flip the class took so that the students can learn the basics of potassium on their own and then do an interactive case based approach to the more advanced concepts. We’ll see if I get better ratings this year.
The lecture is mostly done, but not quite ready to be posted for download. However I did record the first segment. You can see that here.
I should have the other two segments online soon and when I do the lecture will be available as a PDF and a Keynote 2014 file.