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Episode 608: Use the soft touch for buckle fractures?

In episode 608, Tina and James invite Jennifer Young back again to the podcast to go over the evidence we have for a simple but important question around buckle fractures – does treating with a soft bandage versus a rigid splint/cast produce different clinical outcomes? The answer is quite clear around what we should do. Check out what we found.

Show Notes
1) Tools For Practice
Use the soft touch for buckle fractures?

2) PEIP Conference Edmonton October 17-18, 2025

Episode 607: Trying Tongue-Tie Treatment: Does Frenotomy Fix Feeding Frustrations?

In episode 607, Tina and James invite Caitlin Finley to go over what the group found with regard to the best available evidence around surgical frenotomy. We look at the effect the surgery has on breast pain, self-reported breastfeeding improvement, and infant weight gain. Tune in as you might be impressed with the absolute benefits.

Show Notes
1) Tools For Practice
Trying Tongue-Tie Treatment: Does Frenotomy Fix Feeding Frustrations?

2) PEIP Conference Edmonton October 17-18, 2025

Episode 9: Medication checkups can be good for patients and make you feel more contented

THE CASE
It is Friday, the end of a long and busy week and a sunny weekend is calling you. Your tasks this afternoon includes seeing some patients who have complex comorbidity and have been booked in for medication reviews. Next up is a longstanding patient, aged 76 who is on 14 different medication, for several different conditions, 2 more drugs than she was on just 3 months ago. How does this feel? Perhaps a bit daunting? Perhaps the clinician isn’t confident they know what to do about this polypharmacy although they have a gut feeling that this many drugs in an older person could be a problem. Perhaps they feel that this review is a dull chore, or that any attempt to reduce medications will be resisted by the patient and cause criticism from the specialist teams who are involved in her care. Perhaps they feel alone and that other people are not working on reducing medications

Show Notes

  1. The Mechanics of Tackling Overprescribing and Problematic Polypharmacy Health Innovation Network (HIN) document which includes the evidence base, the car analogies, and practical advice for both clinicians and care boards/systems
  2. Health Innovation Network Polypharmacy: getting the balance right programme
  3. Resources to support patients having a Structured Medication Review
  4. Aural Apothecary Podcast
  5. Consultation skills for optimising medication: A DExTruS approach to personalising drug treatments
  6. MedStopper

 

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