Month: July 2020

July 12, 2020

Exploring COVID Theories: Dr. Farid Jalali on 5HT! #FOAMed, #FOAMcc #COVID19

So after chatting a few times, finally got to sit down and discuss Farid’s super interesting theories that certainly seem to tie in many elements of COVID pathology. Just to be clear, this is strictly exploratory and for the purpose of generating discussion and research, and should not form the basis of therapy today, though who knows if it may in the next weeks or days, as several studies are being done around this.

Here is the video!

Here is the audio only:

Please share if you have interesting information around this, and if you are interested, as you heard, Farid has accepted to join in H&R Reloaded’s Virtual Hangout Room on July 31st evening!

cheers

 

Philippe

 

July 4, 2020

Functional Respiratory Imaging: A New Tool? A Chat with Jan De Backer.

 

Jan de Backer is an aerospace engineer who, in concert with his respirologist father, designed an AI system that, from HRCT, can extract a ton of information about lung parenchymal, airway and vascular structure. With no contrast or anything. Just from a run-of-the-mill CT chest…

In full disclosure, I have (unfortunately!) no connection or interest in Fluidda (www.fluidda.com)  outside of a clinical one.

So I’ve been meaning to speak with Jan whose tweets about functional respiratory imaging (FRI) and the FLUIDDA technology have been really piquing my interest, but its taken me unfortunately too long to do so, but here it is. I think this is fascinating technology, which is currently available to all freely (COVID times and all…), and in my opinion clearly deserves a trial run and some clinical experiences. If you are interested, drop me a line and I will link you up with Jan De Backer.

Here is the vid:

 

Here is the audio:

 

So if you are a fan of bedside physiology and personalized medicine, be sure not to miss H&R Reloaded, which will be packed with cutting and bleeding edge talks and faculty – a lot of the stuff we’ve been talking about is not what’s currently being done, or about and I think we just might have to add a talk on FRI…