12/28/2012- Paraneoplastic Neuromuscular Disorders by Drs. Lydia Sharp and Steven Vernino, interviewed by Dr. Ted Burns, Muscle Nerve. 2012 Dec;46(6):839-40. doi: 10.1002/mus.23502.
Join this Lessons From the Lab as Dr. Devon Rubin picks the amazing brains of Drs. Donald Sanders and Janice Massey on the approach to a patient with weakness. Learn what it means when a patient walks into the office sucking on hard candy as well as what tools should be used to think about and assess for an uncommon neuromuscular disorder.
7/15/2024- Carrie Ford, CNCT, RNSCT, REPT (Emeritus) interviews Peter Grant MD for a podcast on electrodiagnostic (EDX) fraud and abuse. Peter is a fraud and abuse expert for the FBI, Office of Inspector General, US Attorney's Office, private insurers, and state medical boards. In this podcast, Peter explains EDX fraud and how it adversely affects PM&R and Neurology, which includes hand-held devices, billing unnecessary repeat studies, billing unnecessary multiple nerves with EMG, and mobile diagnostic labs. - 23 min.
Have you ever encountered a patient with progressive patchy weakness in various muscles throughout the body? Have you ever performed an EMG in which the findings don’t always fit perfectly into what you were expecting? Have you ever wondered whether you even need to perform an EMG in a patient with weakness? Have you ever wondered how much fun it would be to listen to a new episode of Lessons From the Lab? Well, you have come to the right place to find some answers to these questions! Join Drs. Rubin and Narayanaswami as they ponder and discuss many clinical, electrodiagnostic, and practical approaches to an interesting patient with progressive weakness.
If you had to evaluate a patient with hand numbness on a deserted island and could only take one EDX item with you, what would it be? Tune in to this episode to see what Drs. Devon Rubin and Michael Cartwright would choose! And learn many more tips of the trade as they discuss a common yet sometimes complicated problem in the EMG laboratory.
Did you miss the first-ever Lessons From the Lab LIVE? Watch what fun you missed now! Hear Devon Rubin, MD, and Ruple Laughlin, MD, as they discuss a case on unilateral leg numbness.
Dr. Devon Rubin presents Dr. David Preston with a challenging case of a man with subacute lower extremity weakness. Enjoy the potpourri of information about anticoagulation, A waves, F waves, demyelination, ultrasound, Siri, and so much more!