Christian Espana MD PODCAST
Hello I am Christian Espana Schmidt MD. During my 25 years of medical career I have lived the change of the medical career. Starting as a medical student in Guatemala Central America where after medical school I completed my internal medicine residency and then I served in a rural community for 6 years with innovation that still persists, went to New York City where I repeated another internal medicine residency and was chief resident. My joy for teaching took me to Pensilvania where I learned about Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) a revolutionary technique to enhance physical examinations. I proudly started from scratch the POCUS program in Danbury Hospital and now I have started the POCUS program of CIFC Health a program dedicated exclusively to teach POCUS in the outpatient clinic. As you can see I already said I teach POCUS, however I am interested very much in other topics in medicine. I used to call the podcast the Danbury Medical Files, and you can hear the prior episodes.
Of course I will continue to discuss POCUS, however I hope to dive in new topics in medicine.
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All of the content is not generated with AI, all content is cured and I try to present the evidence behind of my opinions.
The Podcast is mainly for entertainment purposes and my recommendations need to be taken as such.
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Christian Espana MD PODCAST
Is auscultation safe?
This time I am exploring what is written about the efficacy of lung auscultation. I found this interesting meta-analysis and saw the difficulties that the authors went thru to find literature about lung auscultation.
Is it safe?
We have auscultation for so long right now, however is it really giving results?
The article used is below:
Arts, L., Lim, E.H.T., van de Ven, P.M. et al. The diagnostic accuracy of lung auscultation in adult patients with acute pulmonary pathologies: a meta-analysis. Sci Rep 10, 7347 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64405-6
I also reviewed some of the articles cited in this open-access meta-analysis.
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Also I have a new youtube channel #IMPOCUS
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpzYai7ngGjZ00NOnUozc_w
