MEM Cast

This week, Dr Rachel Saville (Respiratory Registrar) explains the 2015 BTS guidance for home oxygen, the difference between LTOT and SBOT, NOT, and AOT! She describes the recommendations for blood gas testing, followup and runs though a 'standard' home oxygen prescription. Happy listening!  

This week one of your MEM hosts Dr Cristina Cusu, Renal Registrar in Leicester, speaks to you about causes and management of anaemia in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease. Enjoy listening. 

On this episode , Dr Hina Khan is discussing about Motor neuron Disease , it's pathophysiology, variants and clinical features and presentation. 

Dr Tom Crabtree and Dr Rachel Saville discuss the new diagnosis of type 1 diabetes. When to think about it, what tests to arrange and how to get your patients into follow-up and started on insulin! 

This week we are happy to welcome Dr Matthew Graham-Brown Consultant Nephrologist in Leicester (Glenfield and Leicester General Hospital). Dr Graham-Brown is going to discuss Cardio-Renal Syndrome (CRS) with us, we all in medicine encounter the clinical conundrum of a patient that is fluid overloaded and might have acute or chronic kidney or heart failure.  Listen to this excellent talk for tips on how to manage this clinical situation. 

Point-of-care ultrasound is rapidly gaining an evidence base to support its use as an aide to traditional management techniques in the acutely unwell adult patients. This episode DR Latif Raiyan Rahman talks about POCUS and its implications, limitations and training opportunities. 

Geneticist, Dr Nora Shannon, joins your MEMcast host, Dr Rachel Saville to discuss the diagnosis of Neurofibromatosis type 1. We discuss its inheritance pattern and the diagnostic criteria, and how to distinguish from NF2 in your practice and your exams!

In this episode Dr Sharon Man joins Dr Cristina Cusu once again to continue discussion on cardiac syncope, discussing cardiac arrhythmia in context of syncope. Narrow complex tachycardia, broad complex tachycardia, bundle branch block, AV block all discussed in this episode and we finish with other investigations like ECHO or EP studies. Enjoy listening. 

Dr Hina Khan is giving an informative talk on GBS -diagnostic criteria,investigation, treatment and prognosis. 

This week's MEMcast host, Dr Rachel Saville is joined by genetic councillor, Keri Oliver to talk about Huntingtons Disease. We discuss:- Confidentiality and communication skills: Think PACES communication and ethics station!- Diagnostic vs predictive testing - Counselling- Inheritance and impact of a diagnosis