{"podcast":{"title":"PsychRounds: The Psychiatry Podcast","slug":"psychrounds-the-psychiatry-podcast-6714703","podcast_index_feed_id":6714703,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/eb936048/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/psychrounds","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/39423042/39423042-1699304839414-787f9f0b04889.jpg","author":"Dr. Tanner Hewitt, Dr. Larry Wang and Dr. Bradley Miller","episode_count":114,"summary":"Welcome to Psych Rounds, the podcast tailored for psychiatry residents and students. Join us, three psychiatric resident physicians, as we delve into quick insights, interviews, and practical tips essential for educational practice. Subscribe for a straightforward yet informal approach to psychiatric knowledge. Contact us: psychroundspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/psychrounds/","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T16:18:47.387705+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/psychrounds-the-psychiatry-podcast-6714703"},"episode":{"title":"Lorazepam (Ativan)","slug":"lorazepam-ativan","published_at":"2025-12-31T05:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/psychrounds-the-psychiatry-podcast-6714703/lorazepam-ativan","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/psychrounds-the-psychiatry-podcast-6714703","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/psychrounds/episodes/Lorazepam-Ativan-e3cb8rs","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/eb936048/podcast/play/112615740/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-11-14%2F414360971-44100-2-6d1654e565f39.m4a","summary":"Welcome back! Today we are at the highly prescribed and popular benzodiazepine Lorazepam, also known as Ativan. We look at its uses in psychiatry, especially catatonia. But despite anecdotal efficacy, does the evidence hold up? References: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK532890/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36805317/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6120058/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10229064/ https://psychopharmacologyinstitute.com/section/catatonia-diagnosis-the-lorazepam-challenge-2911-5899/","meta_description":"Welcome back! Today we are at the highly prescribed and popular benzodiazepine Lorazepam, also known as Ativan. We look at its uses in psychiatry, especia…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":867,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/psychrounds-the-psychiatry-podcast-6714703/episodes/lorazepam-ativan/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/psychrounds-the-psychiatry-podcast-6714703/lorazepam-ativan.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}