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The Weekend Effect Touches TAVR Too

CardiacWire

Weekend procedures also face limited access to specialized cardiac teams, affecting timely decisions and making urgent procedures more difficult to schedule. Beyond in-hospital mortality, weekend patients faced a 3.27x higher risk of death following the procedures.

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ECG Blog #401 — What Kind of Block?

Ken Grauer, MD

My Immediate Impression — was that this elderly woman with a several week history of symptoms would most likely leave the hospital with a pacemaker. Given this patient's older age — if nothing "fixable" is found, she most likely has SSS ( S ick S inus S yndrome ) and will need a pacemaker ( See ECG Blog #342 for more on SSS ).

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