TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, look at the top medical stories of the week. This week’s topics include SARS-CoV-2 in adults and children, cooling in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, sudden cardiac death in people with HIV, and sports-related concussion. Program notes:
0:41 SARS-CoV-2 infection in kids and adults
1:42 Analyzed 37,000 nasal swabs
2:42 Ways to stop transmission in schools
3:43 Benefits to wearing masks
3:53 Sports-related concussion
4:53 Certain sports have highest incidence
5:53 In the past, thought rest was needed
6:53 Immediate seizures
7:10 Cooling after MI
8:10 Mortality the same
9:10 Dysregulation of thermoregulation
9:21 Sudden cardiac death in people with HIV
10:23 Less than half in those without HIV
11:23 Numbers too small
Transcript: Elizabeth Tracey: How should sports-related concussion be managed? Rick Lange, MD: Comparing symptoms and COVID virus loads in children and adults. Elizabeth: What’s the cause of sudden cardiac death in people with HIV? Rick: And does cooling people after a sudden cardiac death improve their outcome? Elizabeth: That’s what we’re talking about this week on TT HealthWatch, your weekly look at the medical headlines from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso. I’m Elizabeth Tracey, a Baltimore-based medical journalist. Rick: I’m Rick Lange, president of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, where I’m also dean of the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine. Elizabeth: Elizabeth, since I just saw this morning that we’ve passed the 600,000 mark for deaths from COVID-19 here in the United States — and I would note that that’s probably a vast underestimate — why don’t we turn first to yours in JAMA Pediatrics taking a look at SARS-CoV-2 infection, kids and adults? Rick: In fact, COVID-19 was… 1065 characters, 210 words.
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