BMJ Best Practice Podcast
Episodes
Covid-19 and comorbidities
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A recent meta-analysis by Espinosa and colleagues, “Prevalence of Comorbidities in Patients and Mortality Cases Affected by SARS-CoV2”, found that...
Gestational diabetes
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gestational diabetes develops during pregnancy and is usually diagnosed at 24 to 28 weeks of gestation on the basis of elevated plasma glucose levels ...
Updates in acute medicine: Pulmonary embolism and vaping associated lung injury
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks Matt Castleden, GP and editor for BMJ Best Practice and BMJ Learning, to summarise the latest clinical gu...
Diverticular disease
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Colonic diverticulosis refers to herniation of the mucosa and submucosa through the muscular layer of the colonic wall and may be the result of coloni...
Covid-19 update: Antibody testing, mental health, flu vaccination
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covi...
Anaphylaxis
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Anaphylaxis is a severe, generalised or systemic hypersensitivity reaction. It is characterised by rapidly developing life-threatening airway and/or b...
Covid-19 update: Steroids, PPE, long covid, public mental health
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covi...
End of life care
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
End of life care is specialised medical care for people with serious illness that focuses on the best quality of life for both the patient and their f...
Fibromyalgia
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fibromyalgia patients typically present with chronic, widespread body pain and almost always have accompanying comorbid symptoms such as fatigue, memo...
Covid-19 update: Self-isolation, non-Covid-19 hospital admissions, planned care, and weight
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covi...
Deep vein thrombosis
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is the development of a blood clot in a major deep vein in the leg, thigh, pelvis, or abdomen, which may result in impaired...
Covid-19 update: ADHD, renal transplant patients, care for covid-19 patients post discharge
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covi...
Assessment of chest pain
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chest pain is a common chief complaint. It may be caused by either benign or life-threatening aetiologies and is usually divided into cardiac and non-...
Covid-19 update: Cardiovascular disease, testing, social distancing and shielding, and dexamethasone
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covi...
Anorexia nervosa
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Patients with anorexia nervosa typically have low body weight, intense fear of gaining weight, and a body image disturbance. In this podcast Evelyn A...
Covid-19 update : Osteoporosis, migraine, HIV, venous thromoembolism
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covi...
Covid-19 update: CKD, interstitial lung disease, testing for healthcare workers
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covi...
Schizophrenia
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Schizophrenia onset is usually in early adulthood and may be preceded by years of ill-differentiated symptoms, from behavioural changes and delusions ...
Covid-19 update: Covid toes, CPR, newborn care
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clinical guidance related to covi...
IBS
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Irritable bowel syndrome symptoms include recurrent abdominal pain or discomfort that is associated with a change in stool frequency or form. The pain...
Covid-19 update: Routine immunisation, thromboembolism, contact tracing, mental health
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Learning and BMJ Best Practice to summarise the latest clincial guidanc...
Atrial fibrillation
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Atrial fibrillation is chaotic and irregular atrial arrhythmia, the prevalence of which increases progressively with age. It causes significant morbid...
Covid-19 update: PPE, covid-19 in children, palliative care, perinatal care
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our new weekly podcast, Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Best Practice and BMJ Learning to summarise how clinical guid...
Covid-19 update: Rheumatological conditions, COPD, GP workload prioritisation
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our new weekly podcast, Kieran Walsh, clinical director at BMJ, asks editors from BMJ Best Practice and BMJ Learning to summarise how clinical guid...
Covid-19 update: PPE, frailty and pneumonia
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, editors from BMJ Best Practice and BMJ Learning cover this week's major covid-19 clinical updates. Matt Castleden and Abigail Davis,...
Tension headache
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tension-type headaches can be either episodic or chronic. They are rarely disabling or associated with any significant autonomic phenomena, thus patie...
Rheumatoid arthritis
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, erosive arthritis that requires early and aggressive treatment. In this podcast, Yusuf Yazici, Clinical Associate ...
Osteoporosis
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Osteoporosis is a complex skeletal disease characterised by low bone density and micro-architectural defects in bone tissue, resulting in increased bo...
Suicide risk management
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Suicide is not inevitable. Most people experiencing suicidal thoughts are ambivalent about dying but may be unable to imagine other potential solution...
ADHD In adults
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder presenting with inattentiveness, impulsivity, and hyperactivity...
Postnatal depression
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Postnatal depression refers to a depressive illness following childbirth and may form part of a unipolar or, less frequently, a bipolar illness. Ian ...
Hypertension
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hypertension is a common disorder that affects a large proportion of the community. It is usually asymptomatic and is detected on routine examination ...
Heart failure, with preserved ejection fraction
02 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome resulting from the impaired ability of the heart to cope with the metabolic needs of the body, resulting ...
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever
04 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF)is a notifiable condition, and outbreaks have occurred in Asia, Africa, and Southeast Europe. It resents as a ...
Alzheimer’s dementia
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Alzheimer's disease is a chronic neurodegenerative disease with an insidious onset and progressive but slow decline. It is the most common type of dem...
Comorbidities
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
According to NICE, two thirds of people aged 65 or over have more than one medical condition, and 47% have three or more. Martin Cowie, Professor of ...
Crohn’s disease
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Crohn's disease is a condition is a disorder of unknown aetiology, with common presenting symptoms including chronic diarrhoea, weight loss, and right...
Influenza
18 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Characterised by upper and lower respiratory tract symptoms of rhinorrhoea, cough, fever, chills, headache, and myalgia, influenza can occur in local ...
Malaria
12 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ron Behrens, Consultant in Tropical and Travel Medicine, Hospitals for Tropical Diseases and Senior Lecturer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Me...
Anthrax
21 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Anthrax is a rare infection caused by the spore-forming, gram-positive soil organism Bacillus anthracis . Cutaneous disease is the most common manifes...
Coeliac disease
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Coeliac disease is common, affecting up to 1% of the general population, and has a varied presentation. Matthew Kurien, Senior Clinical Lecturer and ...
Infant botulism
08 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Botulism is a paralytic illness caused by the neurotoxin produced by Clostridium botulinum, and it is most commonly seen in infants. In this podcast ...
Nephrolithiasis
07 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jodi Antonelli, Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, gives us a clinical overview of nephrolit...
Gout
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Fadi Badlissi, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Musculoskeletal Medicine Unit, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, B...
Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus
04 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Venezuelan equine encephalitis is a mosquito-borne virus, endemic to Central and South America. It usually causes mild and self-limiting disease in hu...
Building a therapeutic relationship with psychologically distressed patients
30 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nigel Cowley is a GP from the Denmark Road Medical Centre in Bournemouth, UK, with a special interest in mental health, and in this podcast he shares ...
HIV in pregnancy
16 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Pregnancy in women living with HIV is complicated not only by HIV infection itself but also by the medical and psychosocial comorbidities associated w...
Henipavirus
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Henipavirus is a rare, but emerging, infection in the Asia-Pacific region. An outbreak of Nipah virus infection was reported in India in May 2018, but...
Opioid use disorder
18 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Global trends in the estimated number of drug users (2009 to 2014) indicate that the use of opioids, including the use of heroin and opium, and the no...
SARS
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're joined by Sian Griffiths, Emeritus Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, a...
Multiple sclerosis
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Alissa Willis, Staff Neurologist in the Neurological Institute's Mellen Center for Multiple Sclerosis, Cleveland Clinic, gives us a clinical overview ...
Bipolar disorder
04 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sudhakar Selvaraj, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Science Centre, gives us a clinical overview of bipolar disorde...
Politics of epidemics
18 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We know that infectious disease outbreaks are caused by pathogens, but some would argue that they are also a biological manifestation of social inequa...
Glanders
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What is glanders, and how do you recognise, refer and report it? Dr Robert Norton, Director of Microbiology, Townsville Hospital, Australia, gives us ...
Migraine, with Prof Tim Collins
23 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Prof Tim Collins, Associate Professor of Neurology, Duke University Medical Center, USA, gives us a clinical overview of migraine. For more on migrai...
A clinical guide to COPD, with Prof Mike Morgan
07 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Prof Mike Morgan, National Clinical Director Respiratory NHS England, gives us a clinical guide to COPD. To learn more about COPD, visit BMJ Learning...
Marine toxins poisoning, with Dr Jacob Lebin
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Jacob A Lebin, Emergency Medicine Resident, University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center, gives a clinical guide to marine toxins poisoning....
South American haemorrhagic fevers, with Prof Thomas Ksiazek
28 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
South American haemorrhagic fevers are a group of five highly dangerous and highly infectious diseases. Professor Thomas Ksiazek, Professor of Patholo...
Melioidosis, with Prof David Dance
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Prof David Dance, senior clinical research fellow and consultant microbiologist, Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Laos, gives us a clinical ove...
Ending epidemics, with Dr Jonathan Quick
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Jonathan Quick, author of 'The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It', discusses the threat of epidemics and pandemic...
Recognise, refer and report Poxvirus infection, with Dr Tom Blanchard
04 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how to recognise, refer and report Poxvirus infection, with Dr Thomas Blanchard, Consultant in Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Dis...
Marburg virus
01 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Bebell, Instructor in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and who conducts research in to infectious diseases and critical care medicine, g...
Differential Diagnosis, with Dr Rakesh Patel
06 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Rakesh Patel, Clinical Associate Professor in Medical Education and Honorary Consultant Nephrologist at the University of Nottingham,...
Abrin poisoning, with Prof Scott Phillips
19 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast is a clinical guide to abrin poisoning, with Scott Phillips, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Clinical Pharm & Toxicology, Unive...
Rift Valley Fever: Recognise, refer and report, with Prof Clayton Wiley
03 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Clayton Willey, Professor of Pathology, UPMC Presbyterian Hospital Division of Neuropathology, Pittsburgh, USA, talks us through the recognition, r...
Viral haemorrhagic fevers in children, with Nathalie MacDermott
26 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A clinical guide to viral haemorrhagic fevers in children, with Nathalie MacDermott, Wellcome Clinical Research Training Fellow, Imperial College Lond...
Recognise, refer and report Lassa fever, with John Schieffelin
25 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How to recognise, refer and report Lassa fever, with John Schieffelin, Assistant Professor of Medicine & Pediatrics, Tulane University School of Medic...
A clinical guide to ricin poisoning, with Prof Susan Smolinske
21 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Smolinske, Director of the New Mexico Drug and Poison Information Centre, and Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences, Univer...
Brucellosis, with Drs Nick Beeching and Alessandro Gerada
29 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A clinical guide to Brucellosis, with Drs Nick Beeching, Senior Lecturer Clinical Infectious Diseases, and Alessandro Gerada, Medical Microbiology Tra...
Fever in the returning traveller
04 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
International travel is increasingly common. Between 10% and 42% of travellers to any destination, and 15%-70% of travellers to tropical settings expe...
Avian Influenza: a guide to recognition, reporting and referral with Dr Mary-Margaret Fill
19 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Mary-Margaret Fill currently works as a Medical Epidemiologist in Communicable and Environmental Diseases and Emergency Preparedness at the Tenness...
Typhus group rickettsiae: Recognise, report, refer
01 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Paddock, Medical Officer and pathologist in the Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch in CDC’s Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, gives a clinical...
Tularaemia: Recognition and management with Dr Isaac Bogoch
07 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A clinical guide to recognising and managing Tularaemia. Dr Isaac Bogoch is a clinical researcher, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, Canad...
Coxiella Burnetii Infection: your questions answered by Dr Matthieu Million
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Matthieu Million is a Senior Lecturer and Hospital Practitioner at the Infectious Diseases Unit, Centre Expert du Microbiote Humain, in Marseille,...
Hypertension - Everything You Need To Know About The New 2017 AHA/ACC Guidelines
10 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hypertension: everything you need to know about the new 2017 AHA/ACC guidelines This podcast covers the implications of the new 2017 ACC/AHA guidelin...
Plague - a guide to diagnosing and managing Yersinia with Dr Amesh Adalja
09 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Plague - a guide to diagnosing and managing Yersinia Dr. Amesh Adalja is a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security....
Botulism: a guide to recognition, reporting and referral - with Dr Claudia Kraft
21 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Botulism: a guide to recognition, reporting and referral - with Dr Claudia Kraft Dr Claudia Kraft, MD, CCFP (EM), MSc, is an emergency physician, for...
Ebola: medical guidance and lessons from West Africa with Dr Tom Fletcher
30 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
BMJ Clinical Director Dr Kieran Walsh speaks with Dr Tom Fletcher (http://www.lstmed.ac.uk/about/people/dr-tom-fletcher) about Ebola infection. Dr Tom...
Hepatitis C: What have been our successes so far?
26 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Following acute exposure to the hepatitis C virus, most people develop chronic infection that increases the risk for long-term hepatic complications. ...
Hepatitis B: How to approach diagnosis and management of chronic infection
26 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Most people with chronic hepatitis B infection are asymptomatic, but long-term complications may include cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, or liver...
Trigeminal neuralgia - the evidence base for medical and surgical treatments
18 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A BMJ Clinical Evidence systematic overview looks at the evidence for medical and surgical treatments of trigeminal neuralgia, and the uncertainties t...