Episode 178: tapering benzos, neuro testing for athletes, vonoprazan for PUD, and zoster-dementia link

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Primary Care Update

Mark Ebell

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Four healthily skeptical primary care physicians discuss the latest in primary care medicine. Join Essential Evidence Editor Mark Ebell MD, Rush University's Kate Rowland MD, MSU Professor of Medicine Gary Ferenchick MD, and POEMs co-founder Henry Barry MD, MS for this fast-paced weekly update on evidence-based primary care.

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Episode 178: tapering benzos, neuro testing for athletes, vonoprazan for PUD, and zoster-dementia link

Primary Care Update

34 minutes 24 seconds

7 months ago

Episode 178: tapering benzos, neuro testing for athletes, vonoprazan for PUD, and zoster-dementia link

This week Kate, Gary, Mark and Henry discuss discontinuation of benzodiazepines and treatment of insomnia, the value of baseline cognitive testing of college athletes, vonoprazan vs PPI for preventing and treating ulcers, and whether herpes zoster vaccine reduces dementia risk.

Show links:

Essential Evidence Plus: www.essentialevidenceplus.com

Tapering benzos: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39374004/

Baseline neuro eval for athletes: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39741470/

David Kaufman, “We Need You in the Locker Room” https://thesagergroup.net/books/in-the-locker-room

Vonoprazan vs PPIs for ulcers: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39294424/

Zoster and dementia: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40175543/