Top 7 in February: Boerhaave syndrome, PPI gastroprotection
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Healio presents the following report of the top peer-tested articles from February 2022, which highlight clinical conditions named after famous colleagues, barriers to PPI gastroprotection, telehealth coverage and more.
VIDEO: What’s in a name? How tears of the esophagus became known as Boerhaave syndrome
In this Endo-Sketch, a Healio video series on clinical conditions named after famous colleagues, Klaus Mergener, MD, of the University of Washington School of Medicine, discusses the origin of Boerhaave syndrome.
According to Mergener, these esophageal tears were named after Herman Boerhaave, who was born in 1668 in the Netherlands. Although he initially studied to become a preacher like his father, Boerhaave later added philosophy, mathematics, basic sciences, botany and medicine to his studies and became a physician, serving as professor of medicine, botany and chemistry at the University of Leiden. He eventually became president of the university. Read more.
VIDEO: Barriers to PPI gastroprotection lead to underutilization among providers
In this Healio exclusive video, Jacob E. Kurlander, MD, MS, assistant professor at the University of Michigan and Michigan Medicine, discusses the underuse of proton pump inhibitors in the management of gastrointestinal bleeding.
Kurlander and colleagues conducted a study, published in Annals of Family Medicine, in which they assessed prescribing practices and barriers to the use of PPI gastroprotection within and across specialties, based on interviews with physicians in four specialties at a single institution. They then conducted a thematic assessment of the barriers, organized around a theoretical domain framework. Read more.
Q&A: Will Congress act to extend, expand telehealth coverage beyond COVID-19?
With the onset of COVID-19, health care providers implemented telemedicine to safely expand care to patients and comply with public health guidelines.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently acted in the best interests of patients and health care providers by covering telehealth services through 2023. But what will happen to telehealth coverage after 2023? Read more.
VIDEO: What’s in a name? How GI lesions carry the name Dieulafoy
In this Endo-Sketch, a Healio video series on clinical conditions named after famous colleagues, Klaus Mergener, MD, of the University of Washington School of Medicine, discusses the origin of the Dieulafoy lesion.
According to Mergener, the lesion was named after Paul Georges Dieulafoy, a French internist and pathologist born in 1839 in Toulouse, France. He held various leadership positions at hospitals in Paris before he joined the famous “Hotel-Dieu” hospital in 1887, where he was professor of internal pathology and later became chief of medicine. Read more.
Long-term PPI therapy: ‘Deprescribe’ or continue at lowest effective dose, expert advises
According to one expert at Guild 2022, physicians should “re-ground” their approach to long-term proton pump inhibitor use and consider data-driven recommendations about its indications, known benefits and risks.
“There is a firehose of information about proton pump inhibitors — not for only for us but also for our patients,” Doug A. Corley, MD, PhD, research scientist at Kaiser Permanente of Northern California and clinical professor of medicine at University of California, San Francisco, said during the presentation. Read more.
VIDEO: IBD-related mental illness is ‘rarely discussed’ due to cultural stigmas
In this Healio video series, which focuses on cultural competency in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, Sharan Khela, an IBD patient advocate who has Crohn’s disease, shares her story and cultural stigmas she has had to overcome.
One of the barriers Khela has faced is that her parents did not fully understand her diagnosis, since English is not their first language. In addition, dieticians did not factor her culture into her diet, which was important to her. Read more.
VIDEO: What’s in a name? The expert behind the Schatzki ring
In this Endo-Sketch, a Healio video series on clinical conditions and procedures named after famous colleagues, Klaus Mergener, MD, of the University of Washington School of Medicine, discusses the origin of the Schatzki ring.
According to Mergener, this type of esophageal ring was named after Richard Schatzki, MD, an expert in fluoroscopy and barium radiography and chief of radiology at the University Hospital in Leipzig, Germany. Read more.