The Synapse Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Podcast
The Synapse is a Critical Care and Emergency Medicine podcast breaking down topics and case studies into simple easy-to-digest segments to help build paramedic, nurse, and other pre-hospital and hospital clinicians into more robust providers. This podcast is open to any and all Emergency Medicine and Critical Care healthcare providers both in and out-of-hospital. Every effort is made to put out as many various topics to cater to everyone's interests and levels. Leave your technician hat outside, put on your clinician hat, and join us!
**Disclosures:
1) This is a non-monetary podcast, created and edited for free for your enjoyment and learning purposes.
2) The opinions and information presented in these podcast episodes is based off of up-to-date research, the latest evidence-based-guidelines, and/or anecdotal experience/opinions of the author.
3) Under no circumstances does this podcast or the information presented within each episode serve as authorization to work outside your guidelines, protocols, or workplace rules otherwise. When in doubt, contact Medical Control for guidance.
The Synapse Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Podcast
The Synapse Season 2 Episode 96 - VX-800...Goodbye Type 1 Diabetes?
Wouldn't it be amazing if Type 1 Diabetics had a cure? What would we see happen to our case load in healthcare from accidental insulin overdoses or hyperglycemia from under-dosing? Would it be that easy if there was an option? VX-880 is a novel islet cell therapy that has shown amazing results so far in the small cohorts and phase 1 & 2 trials, with patients who have received the therapy being able to generate their own internal C-peptides and insulin! Want to know more? Join me on this episode!
