Through Russian Snows by HENTY, G. A.
by Dr. Dan
There are few campaigns that, either in point of the immense scale upon which it was undertaken, the completeness of its failure, or the enormous loss of life entailed, appeal to the imagination in so great a degree as that of Napoleon against Russia. Fortunately, we have in the narratives of Sir Robert Wilson, British commissioner with the Russian army, and of Count Segur, who was upon Napoleon's staff, minute descriptions of the events as seen by eye-witnesses, and besides these the campaign has been treated fully by various military writers. I have as usual avoided going into details of horrors and of acts of cruelty and ferocity on both sides, surpassing anything in modern warfare, and have given a mere outline of the operations, with a full account of the stern fight at Smolensk and the terrible struggle at Borodino. I would warn those of my readers who may turn to any of the military works for a further history of the campaign, that the spelling of Russian places and names varies
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#24 Chlorhexidine versus Iodine – The Battle of the Antiseptics - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
By Dr. Daniel Aronov Daniel is available for talks, workshops or seminars Before any sort of surgery, its routine to clean the skin with antiseptic. The point is to kill the microorganisms on the skin and so hopefully reduce the chance of infection. The two most common preoperative skin…
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#23 Dust mite avoidance for asthma - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
Dr. Daniel Aronov There is a strong association between asthma and house dust mite allergy: Around 65% of asthmatics are also allergic to house dust mites (on skin prick testing) and it seems that higher exposures to house dust mite allergens are associated with worsening asthma. So is this...
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#22 Subclinical hypothyroidism in pregnancy - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
Dr. Daniel Aronov A pregnant woman has come to you for her first antenatal appointment. She’s perfectly healthy with no signs or symptoms of thyroid disease. You arrange the gamut of blood tests: full blood exam, blood group, HIV, etc., but do you also check her Thyroid Stimulating Hormone levels...
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#21 Steroids for acute urticaria - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
By Dr. Daniel Aronov A patient presents with acute urticaria (hives) and after your comprehensive assessment, you decide to give them an antihistamine. But do you also give them a corticosteroid? Maybe some prednisolone to speed up the recovery from their hives? It’s a pretty common practice, in…
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#20 Evidence Based Pearls for Respiratory Tract Infections - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
Dr. Daniel Aronov This episode is a live broadcast from a lecture given at the Royal australian College of General Practitioners conference. It is a collection of my favorite evidence based clinical pearls for the most common presentation in primary care: respiratory tract infections. We’ll cover...
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#19 Does high cholesterol CAUSE cardiovascular disease? - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
This episode takes a deep dive into the evidence for and against the lipid hypothesis. The lipid hypothesis states that abnormal blood cholesterol levels cause cardiovascular disease. But is this true? Does high LDL (“bad cholesterol”) and/or low HDL (“good cholesterol”) actually CAUSE...
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#18 Which antihypertensive is best? The ALLHAT trial - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
The ALL-HAT trial is by far the most important clinical trial ever done in the management of hypertension. It answers the question: Which class of antihypertensive medication is the best for reducing cardiovascular disease? And it is the definitive source for the answer. They randomised a…
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#17 Honey for cough - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
By Dr. Daniel Aronov On average, children get about 8 upper respiratory tract infections per year. Most of which involve a cough which can be a nuisance. It can ruin the child’s sleep and the parents sleep and it can also be very distressing for the parents. A survey found that one of the common...
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#16 The best way to quit smoking according to science - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
By Dr. Daniel Aronov 14.5% of Australian adults smoke cigarettes – this is down from 22.4% at the turn of the century. The rates are similar in the US but much higher across Europe – with an average closer to 30%. There’s pretty much nothing we can do for a smoking patient that would improve…
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#15 Preventing allergies – the LEAP study - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
There’s no doubting that allergies are on the rise. We know it because when we were in school it was pretty rare, but for kids in school nowadays its all too common. The United States, who have been collecting data on the rates of peanut allergy over time, found that in 1997, 0.4% of people...
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#14 Evidence for low fat diet and decreasing saturated fat – PURE Study - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
Almost all guidelines are recommending that we should reduce dietary fats and restrict saturated fats. The PURE study has called to question these recommendations and in this episode, we explore the evidence. It’s very hard to find a guideline that does not recommend reducing total fat and...
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#13 – Lowering cholesterol with evolocumab and cardiovascular risk - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
There’s a new cholesterol lowering drug in town and its ability to lower cholesterol is like nothing we’ve ever seen before. It’s called Evolocumab, (trade name Repatha) but is it any good at reducing cardiovascular disease? This week, we delve into the FOURIER trial – a humongous randomised...
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#12 – Magnesium for Leg Cramps - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
Night time leg cramps are very common and can ruin sleep. One study surveyed 490 veterans and found that 60% of them had suffered from night time leg cramps and 1/4 of those had them regularly. A lot of people use magnesium to ease their nocturnal cramps and they often swear by them, but do they...
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#11 Antibiotics for Otitis Media - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
Otitis media, or middle ear infection, is a very common issue. It is the second most common reason for a child to see a GP and is the most common reason antibiotics are prescribed to children. According to a large Australian database called the BEACH data, 80% of kids with otitis media are...
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Chance of chronic opioid use after first ever prescription - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
Opioid addiction has been increasingly recognised as a public health crisis: Deaths from prescription painkillers have now surpassed the deaths from heroin. Opioid use disorder has risen 500% from 2010 to 2016 in the USA For the first time in history, the Surgeon General sent a letter to every...
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#9 – Delayed Antibiotics - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
We want to reduce the use of antibiotics but at the same time we also want to keep our patients satisfied. Otherwise, they’ll just go and find another doctor. This week we look into a really great study that compared refusing to give that antibiotic script, to giving them the script straight…
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#8 – Does Ezetimibe IMPROVE-IT? - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
Introduction The reason doctors like to lower their patients cholesterol is to decrease their risk of developing cardiovascular disease. There is no point decreasing cholesterol levels if it has no impact on cardiovascular disease. Ezetimibe (Zetia, Ezetrol or Vytorin when in combination with...
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#7 Testosterone Trials – Should we treat age related testosterone deficiency? - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
Background Testosterone levels seem to naturally decline as men age. There has been an enormous rise in the amount of testing and treatment of this natural decline in testosterone. Testosterone clinics have been popping up all over the place and promise that treatment will restore energy, improve...
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#6 Medication to speed up kidney stone passage - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
Calcium channel blockers and alpha blockers are both smooth muscle relaxants and so could theoretically relax the smooth muscle of the ureter and speed up the passage of kidney stones. Given that kidney stones can take several weeks to pass and often are rated as 10/10 pain, treatments to speed…
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#5 Caesarian Section versus Vaginal Delivery for Breech Presentation – The Term Breech Trial - Evidence Based Medic...
For show notes including all the results for this trial: http://www.ebmpodcast.com/breech The Term Breech Trial is one of the most important clinical trials in the history of obstetrics and has changed the way we manage breech presentation across the world. The term breech trial was as randomised...
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#4 Wart is the best treatment for warts? - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
This episode delves into the highest quality trial ever done on the treatment for warts. This randomised controlled trial published in the CMAJ compared cryotherapy with liquid nitrogen to salicylic acid wart creams to doing nothing. 250 patients were recruited in primary care and follows up for…
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#3 Does CPAP Reduce CVD in Sleep Apnoea? – SAVE trial - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
In this episode we delve into the SAVE study which was THE landmark trial that investigated whether using CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) to treat Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) also improved cardiovascular disease. The trial also assessed the impact of CPAP on quality of life. The…
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#2 SPRINT trial – which blood pressure target is best? - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
In episode 2 of the Evidence Based Medicine Podcast we delve into the SPRINT trial. This trial assessed whether targeting systolic blood pressure to less than 120mmHg is better than targeting to less than 140mmHg it terms of harms and reduction in cardiovascular disease. The trial was conducted…
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#1 – Introducing EBM podcast - Evidence Based Medicine Podcast
Welcome to the Evidence Based Medicine Podcast Hello and welcome to the evidence based medicine podcast where every episode we will discuss a landmark clinical trial that has shaped medicine as we know it. My name is Daniel Aronov and I am so excited to launch this podcast. In this podcast we…
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There are few campaigns that, either in point of the immense scale upon which it was undertaken, the completeness of its failure, or the enormous loss of life entailed, appeal to the imagination in so great a degree as that of Napoleon against Russia. Fortunately, we have in the narratives of Sir Robert Wilson, British commissioner with the Russian army, and of Count Segur, who was upon Napoleon's staff, minute descriptions of the events as seen by eye-witnesses, and besides these the campaign has been treated fully by various military writers. I have as usual avoided going into details of horrors and of acts of cruelty and ferocity on both sides, surpassing anything in modern warfare, and have given a mere outline of the operations, with a full account of the stern fight at Smolensk and the terrible struggle at Borodino. I would warn those of my readers who may turn to any of the military works for a further history of the campaign, that the spelling of Russian places and names varies
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