Treatment Collaboration: Confusion to Confidence
001 Pathogens and Why Baseline Testing is Essential
02:25 More on Plaque
03:34 The Vital Tests for Confidence
We can't just look for clinical disease because when they do those CIMTs, the carotid intermediate thickness, and they're looking for these soft plaques, they are more related to the microbial levels. We have to know if those pathogens are there, if those microbes are there or not. We always want to clinically address our patients and be looking at them in diagnosis, but we've been missing a key piece to be competent in our treatments. And that's what is there microbially.
Baseline testing is the essential takeaway, an objective point of view. It allows us to answer, "are the pathogens even there? How much of those pathogens are there? And then what is the growth pattern?"
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