7/31/24- Carrie Ford, CNCT, RNSCT, REPT (Emeritus) interviews Peter Grant, MD who 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 Dr. Grant discusses promoting quality electrodiagnostic medicine through legislation—HB2639 explaining the history and need for this legislation, as well as explaining EDX “fraudsters,” and roadblocks that have occurred with this legislation. Dr. Grant also discusses the AANEM’s state liaisons, lobbying in Washington, DC, and meetings with congressman Pete Sessions for support of HB2639. - 16 min.

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.

Dr. Devon Rubin challenges the father-son combination of Drs. Peter Dyck and Jim Dyck with a case of peripheral neuropathy. Watch to find out whether the patient’s diabetes was the culprit or whether there was another cause. You will not be disappointed as you learn many pearls in the clinical and EDX evaluation of peripheral neuropathy.

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.

Watch this episode to see if Dr. Grant thinks that Dr. Rubin appropriately evaluated a patient with suspected polyneuropathy – is one NCS too few, are 22 NCS too many? Tune in to find out the answer, and much more!

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!

4/15/2024 -Drs. Mohamed Taha and John Morren speak with Andy Galbreath about their recent Muscle & Nerve paper on Artificial Intelligence in NM and EDX Medicine.  The authors discuss concepts of machine learning, deep learning, and artificial neural networks as they relate to NM and EDX medicine. Limitations and regulatory challenges are also discussed.  Muscle & Nerve. 2024;69:260-272. 35 min.