TT HealthWatch - Friday, April 12, 2024
This week's topics include decolonizing patients and infections in the hospital, delirium and dementia, brain size over the last few decades, and are biosimilars cheaper for patients.
0:35 Brain size over the last few decades
1:35 About a 7% greater volume
2:35 Bigger brains start in early childhood
3:55 Biosimilar costs
4:53 Cost about 10% higher
5:45 Does delirium predict dementia?
6:46 Recurrent delirium with dose response
7:47 Programs to reduce delirium in older patients
8:51 Multidrug resistant organisms, iodine and chlorhexidine
9:52 Decolonize every five days
11:04 Don't need surveillance
12:27 End