Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 1, 2024

The patient was promptly admitted to the hospital for further evaluation. Cannon waves are associated with reduced RV compliance or elevated RV end-diastolic pressure ( Ali et al — Ann Noninvasic Electrocard 22:e12423, 2017 — and — Chen and Pel-Ying Pai — Circulation 119:e381, 2009 ). What do you think? What is the rhythm?

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Tachycardia Blog Ischemia Heart Failure 112

EMS 12-Lead

APRIL 2, 2022

He requested transport to the hospital out of an abundance of caution, and all subsequent serial ECG’s showed no changes from Figure 1-2, shown above. The respective hospital course was unremarkable. The patient verbalized complete resolution of symptoms, and the skin was noted to be warm, pink, and dry. Figure 1-2. 2] Surawicz, B.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

Author continued : STE in aVR is often due to left main coronary artery obstruction (OR 4.72), and is associated with in-hospital cardiovascular mortality (OR 5.58). NEJM 362(9):779; March 4, 2009. NEJM 362(9):779; March 4, 2009. 2 The astute paramedic recognized this possibility and announced a CODE STEMI. De Backer D et al.

Ischemia 40

Ischemia Cardiogenic Shock Aortic Stenosis 40

Cardiology Update

JANUARY 22, 2024

In the RAFT trial, 1798 patients were enrolled by February 2009. At a mean (±SD) follow-up of 40±20 months, CRT showed a significantly lower risk of death or hospitalization due to heart failure. Out of 1798 enrolled patients, 1050 were included in the long-term survival analysis. The median follow-up duration for these patients was 7.7

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Heart Failure Defibrillator Heart Transplant Transplant 115

Journal of the American Heart Association

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Data on HT‐related emergency department (ED) visits are limited.Methods and ResultsA retrospective analysis of 177 450 HT patient ED visits from the 2009 to 2018 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample was conducted. Multivariable logistic regression was used to predict outcomes of hospital admission and death.

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DAIC

APRIL 2, 2024

Estimating sodium quantities in a meal can be challenging,” said Elsie Kodjoe , MD, MPH, an internal medicine resident at Piedmont Athens Regional Hospital in Athens, Georgia and the study’s lead author. Food labels aid in dietary sodium estimation by providing sodium quantities in packaged food.

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Heart Disease Cardiovascular Disease Diet Coronary Artery Disease 105

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Methods We performed a single-centre retrospective study of all patients undergoing RA between October 2009 and October 2022. Patient characteristics, procedural variables, and in-hospital complications were registered. Results A total of 331 patients who underwent RA procedure were analysed.

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Bradycardia Diabetes Hospital 72

Coronary Artery Disease Journal

JUNE 10, 2024

Methods The National Inpatient Sample database (2009–2020) was used to study trends in admissions and outcomes of post-STEMI VSR over time. Results There were 2 315 186 ± 22 888 visits for STEMI with 0.194 ± 0.01% experiencing VSR during 2009–2020 in the USA. In-hospital mortality was 73.6 ± 1.8%, but only 29.2 ± 1.9 and 10 ± 1.2%

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Myocardial Infarction STEMI Outcomes Inpatient 40

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

PurposeThis study aimed to assess sex-specific aspects in diagnosing IE.MethodsAll consecutive patients admitted at Ulm University Heart Center with suspected IE between 2009 and 2019 were included. Male sex was the only independent risk factor for in-hospital mortality [p=0.036, HR 4.127 (95%-CI 1.096-15.538)].

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Outcomes Coronary Artery Disease Risk Factors Defibrillator 52

Journal of the American Heart Association

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The overall mortality, cardiac deaths, myocardial infarctions, and hospitalizations for unstable angina were acquired from national registry data for 1 to 10 years of follow‐up (median, 4 years). PTP was calculated according to the 2013 and 2019 ESC guidelines.

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Coronary Artery Disease Myocardial Infarction Angina Hospital 40

Journal of the American Heart Association

JANUARY 19, 2024

Multivariable logistic regression evaluated the association between time from admission to ECMO initiation and in‐hospital death. After multivariable adjustment, patients with ECMO initiated >24 hours after admission had higher risk of in‐hospital death (adjusted odds ratio, 1.20 [95% CI, 1.06–1.36];P=0.004). 1.36];P=0.004).

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Cardiogenic Shock Outcomes Cardiac Arrest Hospital 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

This study aimed to analyze the clinical variables associated with the neuropsychological function in a large cohort of aSAH survivors.Methods:Patients with aSAH admitted to our institution since 2009 were recruited. and in patients who developed new radiological ischemia during hospitalization (OR: 3.42, p 0.03).

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Hemorrhage Aneurysm Quality of Life Ischemia 40

Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 15, 2023

BMC Endow Disorders 2009 The issue with using waist circumference to identify insulin resistance is that it likely only flags it as an issue when things have progressed very far. Assessing fasting insulin can be tricky and often needs to be done in a major hospital lab setting. 2009 Jan 12;9:1. BMC Endocr Disord. 2018.0105.

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Blood Pressure Risk Factors Diabetes Cholesterol 52

Global Cardiac Surgery

AUGUST 17, 2018

It was not much later that cardiac care in the country dramatically took off, with the establishment of the Shahid Gangalal National Heart Center (SGNHC) , where Dr. Bhagwan Koirala was appointed as Chief Cardiac Surgeon and Executive Director, serving until 2009.In We try to find resources for them.

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Open-Heart Surgery Cardiothoracic Transplant Innovation 52

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

All included ACP patients were recruited in 2009 at Yonsei University Hospital and were followed up until 2022. Moreover, electrically silent phenomena—intracellular ionic currents as well as vortex currents—can be measured and quantified. Results During half of the follow-up period (6.5 years), 11 patients died.

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Chest Pain Cardiac Arrest Public Health Defibrillator 64

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2013

in Vienna found that 27 of 765 (4%) of out of hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) were due to SAH. Only 1 of 27 survived, after 45 days in the hospital, with a cerebral performance category of 2; this patient had ventricular fibrillation. Kurkciyan et al. In 25 (93%), the initial rhythm was asystole or PEA. Chicago November 2010.

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Cardiac Arrest STEMI Hemorrhage Hospital 52

Journal of the American Heart Association

MARCH 26, 2025

BackgroundThe risk of ischemic stroke hospitalization in patients with endstage kidney disease has declined over time, but data are limited, especially for hemorrhagic stroke trends. Journal of the American Heart Association, Ahead of Print. We identified 391 195 new patients undergoing hemodialysis (mean age, 70.1

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Strokes Stroke Hemorrhage Kidney Disease 40

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

Cardiology documented “late presentation STEMI but likely aborted given resolution of ST changes from EMS to hospital.” Eur Heart J 2009 4 Lemkes et al. Due to these borderline findings and patient’s cardiac history, cardiac interventionalist was called for consult.” The patient had a 100% occlusion of the RCA graft. Busk et al.

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Chest Pain STEMI Bradycardia Myocardial Infarction 86

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MARCH 13, 2013

In multivariate analysis, STE in lead V 4 R on admission electrocardiography remained a strong independent variable associated with acute HF and the combined end point of primary VF, acute HF, or death during hospitalization. 2009) similarly found that STE in aVR correlated with proximal (vs. How about STE in aVR ?

STEMI 52

STEMI Myocardial Infarction Electrocardiogram Chest Pain 52

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

APRIL 8, 2015

in 2010 EM Clinics of North America (full text link) For an Exhaustive Review of Syncope and its full management outside the ED environment, go to the 2009 European Society of Cardiology Guidelines (full text pdf). Clinical predictors of cardiac syncope at initial evaluation in patients referred urgently to general hospital: the EGSYS score.

Arrhythmia 52

Arrhythmia Outcomes Chest Pain Risk Factors 52

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This study aims to evaluate the medium-term outcomes of surgical repair for AAOCA and to introduce a novel off-pump technique for anomalous coronary artery reimplantation.MethodsWe retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 12 patients aged 12 years and older who underwent AAOCA surgery at Fuwai Hospital between 2009 and 2016.ResultsThe

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Aortic Sudden Cardiac Death Angioplasty Outcomes 52