Ep 36. Trainee Publishing Programme 2023: Dr Charlotte Sharp & Karen Staniland

10/11/23 • 19 min

Can patients with rheumatoid arthritis examine their own joints?
Dr David Liew talks to Dr Charlotte Sharp and Karen Staniland about their work to create a video teaching patients how to self-examine tender and swollen joints.

Charlotte is now a consultant rheumatologist based in Manchester and has an interest in applied health research. Karen is the patient and public involvement lead for the REMORA project and has rheumatoid arthritis. Their paper was a winning entry to the 2023 Rheumatology Advances in Practice Trainee Publishing Programme.
Read the article: How to self-examine for tender and swollen joints: co-producing a training video for people with rheumatoid arthritis
You can also watch the video or find out more about the REMORA project.

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Ep 35. Trainee Publishing Programme 2023: Dr Pallavi Shamdasani

How can we best diagnose septic arthritis in the acute care setting?
Dr Pallavi Shamdasani joins Prof Rene Westhovens to discuss the utility of synovial aspiration and intra-operative synovial fluid and tissue culture for the accurate diagnosis of septic arthritis.
Dr Shamdasani is a dual trained rheumatologist and obstetric medicine physician based in Melbourne, Australia. Her paper was a winning entry to the 2023 Rheumatology Advances in Practice Trainee Publishing Programme.
Read the winning paper: Diagnosis of septic arthritis in the acute care setting: the value of routine intra-operative sample culture

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Ep 37. Can MSUS and RADAI-F5 help to identify RA patients at risk of poor functional and radiological outcomes?

Anika Hoque joins Dr Michael Backhouse to discuss their recent article, which examines the construct validity of the RA foot disease activity index in relationship to musculoskeletal ultrasonography and clinical examination.

Listen now to hear the findings, and what this means for future clinical practice and the impact on RA patients at risk for poor functional and radiological outcomes.

You can read this article [https://doi.org/10.1093/rap/rkad048] in Rheumatology Advances in Practice.

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