Restless Legs: How to help the Augmented Patient - Season One - Episode 3

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Published 2024-05-15

Season One - Episode 3: Patients are still presenting to sleep specialists on high doses of dopamine agonists with intense augmentation and profound insomnia. In this podcast, Dr. Michael Silber discusses how to manage patients with this distressing problem.

00:38 Introduction to Episode 3
01:27 What is augmentation and how common it is...
05:22 Do you see a role for levadopa...
06:31 Let's consider another clinical scenario...
09:11 Let us consider a case of more severe augmentation...
15:20 Do you have a preference for gabapentin, pregabalin...
16:43 Final messages

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