Blood Thinners | Your Health® Radio

This weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy will be joined by Dr. Allen Kachalia, Associate Chief Quality Officer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, about A Clear View of Patient Safety.

Please tune in! This show will air:
WCHL 97.9FM
• Saturday, July 19^th at 9am
• Sunday, July 20^th at 9am and 5pm
• Monday, July 21^st at 6pm and 10pm
WBNE 103.7 FM
• Saturday, July 19^th at 3pm
KKAG Retro Radio 88.7FM
• Sunday, July 20^th at 7am

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Download the episode from the Carolina Digital Repository

Show Topics:

Research that Matters (min 0-9:30) intensive care & death, cardiac stents & blood thinners, suburbanite heroin abusers, walking program & peripheral disease
Conversations with Dr. Allen Kachalia about A Clear View of Patient Safety (min 9:30-31)
House Calls (min 31-40) pregnancy & CrossFit, sport safety & concussions, ceiling fans & dry eyes, staying outside & heat stroke/cardiac arrest

Resources:

Research that Matters
- Intensive care & death
- Cardiac Stents & Blood Thinners
  - PubMed: Delay in clopidogrel prescription after stenting risks death
  - WebMD: Many Delay Blood Thinners After Stents, Risk Death
- suburbanite heroin abusers
  - PubMed: The changing face of heroin use in the United States: a retrospective analysis of the past 50 years
  - WebMD: Today’s Heroin Abusers often Middle Class: Study
- walking program & peripheral disease
  - PubMed: Home-based walking exercise intervention in peripheral artery disease
  - AHA: Home-based walking program eases clogged leg arteries
Conversations
- MACRMI [Massachusetts Alliance for Communication and Resolution following Medical Injury]: Information for Patients
- AHRQ: Where Medical Errors Occur and Steps You Can Take to Avoid Them
House Calls

This weekend on YOUR HEALTH™ Dr. David Zvara will join us on A Patient’s Guide to Anesthesiology & Surgery.

Dr. David Zvara is the Chair of Anesthesiology at UNC. He serves on the American Board of Anesthesiology as a senior examiner, as well as on the Board of Directors for the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiology. He is also a recognized researcher and educator, and is the author of two textbooks.

Please tune in! We’re on the air:

Saturday at 9am
Sunday at 9am and 5pm
Monday at 6pm and 10pm

Listen to the Show!

Download the episode from the Carolina Digital Repository

Show Topics:

Research That Matters (min 0 – 10): phone chats & quitting smoking, heart risk & air filters, private rooms & infections, clowns & IVF success
- UNC Nicotine Dependence Program
- Quitting Smoking
Conversations with Dr. David Zvara on A Patient’s Guide to Anesthesiology & Surgery (min 10 – 31)
- Anesthesia
- Having Surgery? What to Expect Before, During and After Your Operation and Anesthesia
House Calls (min 31 – 40): coughing, breast-feeding, atrial fibrillation with no Coumadin, croup

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A Clear View of Patient Safety with Dr. Allen Kachalia

A Patient’s Guide to Anesthesiology and Surgery with Dr. David Zvara