Transcript
A (0:02)
Welcome to season three of Derms on Drugs, a video podcast brought to you by Scholars in Medicine, the best educational platform in dermatology and provided a no cost to medical providers. Derms on Drugs is where cutting edge term meets. Here, Miss Comedy. I'm Dr. Matt Zyrus from Docs Dermatology and each week I'm joining my residency buddies, Dr. Laura Fares from the University of North Carolina and Dr. Tim Patton from the University of Pittsburgh. And we use our 60 years of combined derma experience to discuss, debate and dissect the hottest topics in dermatology. It is everything you need to know to be on the cutting edge of derm. And you'll actually have some fun listening. New episodes drop every Friday on Scholars in Medicine, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other major podcast platforms. And I highly, highly recommend that you download the Scholars in Medicine app to access the full podcast video archive. Explore the best derm educational content out there. Not this pharma generated crap, but actual real bread and butter dermatology. And it's all supported by an amazing clinical consultant called Ask Simon. So before we get into our episode today, I just have to let our listeners know to keep Dr. Patton in your prayers, he is going to have to have open heart surgery later this summer. It's the. Actually the first of a series of three procedures. Turns out they can only make your heart one size larger at a time. But no, actually the he's. He is having heart surgery has to have a aortic valve replacement. Dr. Patton, we're all be wishing you the. Wishing you the best, Dr. Pat.
B (1:29)
I appreciate that. Any. Anything helps, I suppose.
C (1:33)
Okay, we'll make you record from the hospital room. It's okay, we're not missing an episode over this. You're not good enough.
A (1:40)
I can hear it now. Turn, no, turn down his pain meds. He needs to be a little more. All right, Ferris, what do you got?
C (1:51)
Okay, so my first six pack article is from the British Journal of Dermatology Weekly versus daily bathing for people with eczema. Results of the eczema bathing online randomized control trial. Bradshaw et al. So I guess they get to call it eczema and not atopic dermatitis because they probably don't have such a hard time with prior auths like we do. Or we have to give it official name. Okay, so, you know, this is kind of interesting. Like we, you know, we make patients feel like, oh my God, don't wash your skin too much, you're gonna get dry. But I. Otherwise you're gonna Be full of staph, so maybe take showers more. And, you know, does it really matter who's gonna do this clinical trial? Certainly not me. Nobody's gonna get funded. So what they did was this was actually in a pragmatic online recruited randomized trial in the uk. So, you know, what, how did they get patients for this? They, like, recruited them on social media, eczema support networks, text, general practice. And so people basically signed up to say, I'd like to be part of a clinical trial on bathing. So they screened about 880 people. 438 were ultimately randomized, so like 218 to 20 per arm. So kind of, you know, a good number. And they were randomized either to bathe every single day or bathe once a week. And I was like, those are kind of two extremes, right? Like, maybe every other day would have been a nice arm, but that was not it. And so, you know, was it blinded to it?
