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Chest discomfort and a dilated right ventricle. What's going on?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

21, 2017 ). Smith's book : Learning points: 1) OMI can be very subtle and RV infarction may manifest poorly on the standard ECG. 2) Typical persistent chest pain with a sigificantly elevated troponin is OMI until proven otherwise, regardless of the ECG. Our THANKS to Dr. Magnus Nossen for sharing this case with us.

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A young peripartum woman with Chest Pain

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Many of these issues were described in a prior post by Dr. Angie Lobo ( @aloboMD ) (For open-access reviews of this literature, see Saw 2016 , Saw 2017 , or Hayes 2018.) were pretty sick, with mostly LM/pLAD lesions and high rates of cardiogenic shock. Lobo et al. examined SCAD presenting as STEMI (unlike Hassan et al.

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Should Troponin be a Vital Sign? Perhaps, but only if Interpreted Using Pre-test Probability.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The patient went into cardiogenic shock and ultimately died of this MI. Main outcome measures Positive predictive value of an elevated cardiac troponin concentration for a diagnosis of type 1 myocardial infarction. Regional WMA: Lateral , large, hypokinetic. Sandoval Y et al. American Journal of Medicine 130(12): 1431-1439, Dec.

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Interhospital Variation in Admissions Managed With Critical Care Therapies or Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring in Tertiary Cardiac Intensive Care Units: An Analysis From the Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network Registry

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, Ahead of Print. Admissions to CICUs with the highest tertile of CCRx utilization had a greater burden of comorbidities, had more diagnoses of ST–elevation myocardial infarction, cardiac arrest, or cardiogenic shock, and had higher Sequential Organ Failure Assessment scores.

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Published Research

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Lead Author Title Publication Date Jacob Raphael Red Blood Cell Transfusion and Pulmonary Complications: The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Analysis The Annals of Thoracic Surgery January 2024 Joseph Sabik Multi-Arterial versus Single-Arterial Coronary Surgery: Ten Year Follow-up of One Million (..)

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Published Research

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

Program Designations Access and Publications (A&P) 1 Participant User File (PUF) 2 Task Force on Funded Research (TFR) 3 Special Projects 4 Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Lead Author Title Publication Date William Keeling 2 National Trends in Emergency Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery October 2023 Jake (..)

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The early and mid-term outcomes of acute type A aortic dissection patients with ECMO

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Postcardiotomy cardiogenic shock (PCS) is a severe complication following ATAAD repair that complicates postoperative recovery. BackgroundAcute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD) poses significant challenges in cardiovascular management due to its high morbidity and mortality rates.