This Week on Sound Medicine...Jan 14

Tune in at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 14, to Sound Medicine, the weekly radio program co-produced by IUSM and WFYI Public Radio (90.1 FM) in Indianapolis. The program is hosted by Barb Lewis. Co-hosts of this week’s program are David Crabb, MD, and Stephen Bogdewic, PhD.

This week, Joe McCannon, vice president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, will discuss the 5 Million Lives Campaign and its goal to reduce the rate of medical mistakes in U.S. hospitals.

Contributing reporter Allan Coukell talks with Meghan Dierks, MD, director of clinical systems analysis at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, about the possibilities of making medical staff and their environment safer and more efficient.

A drug-coated stent is a popular medical device used by an estimated 3 million Americans to open clogged arteries. This month, an FDA advisory panel will determine whether these stents produce an increased risk of heart attack, death or blood clots. The results may implement new safety rules and how the stents are labeled. Ed Harlamert, director of research at the Indiana Heart Hospital, explains the implications.

A new initiative underway at IUSM, “Partnerships for Change: Putting the Puzzle Together,” is teaming pediatric residents, and residents and students from the IU schools of dentistry and nursing with community service organizations to emphasize a more family-centered and community-based approach. One of the initiative’s leaders, Steven Downs, MD, IU associate professor of pediatrics, discusses how young patients will benefit from the collaboration.

A school nurse is often forced to juggle multiple medical demands requiring not only medical knowledge but also patience. Rae Wallace, RN, and Donna Niederhauser, RN, share their experiences as school nurses for nearly 15 years with Sound Medicine reporter Colleen Iudice.

Archived editions of Sound Medicine, as well as other helpful health information, can be found at soundmedicine.iu.edu/

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