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Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center Providing State-of-the-Art Medtronic APOLLO Clinical Trial Treating Heart Valve Disease

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The expertise of our clinicians, like Dr. Saybolt, enables our academic medical center to provide these leading-edge clinical trials. Our program continues to grow as more of our neighbors select the academic medical center to receive exemplary health care,” said Kenneth N. Sable , M.D.,

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COVID-19 myocarditis illusions

Dr. Anish Koka

Cardiac Cath labs waiting for some major influx of COVID heart damage not only didn’t see patients presenting with COVID heart attacks, but they idled as patients terrified of coming to the hospital stayed home rather than come to the hospital with chest pain.

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What is the infarct artery? What does the post PCI ECG show? What does the convalescent ECG show?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This is one case where it made a difference: Right Ventricular MI seen on ECG helps Angiographer to find Culprit Lesion Nevertheless, it is sometimes a fun academic exercise to try to predict the infarct artery: An elderly patient had onset of chest pain one hour prior. He called 911. Here is the prehospital ECG.

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A 20-something woman with cardiac arrest.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The chest pain quickly subsided. NT-pro-BNP peaked at 4831, consistent with heart failure. This distinction is more than academic — because both treatment and the response to therapy tend to be different with these 2 entities. Are you worried about OMI in this case? His response was: "I would not call it OMI.

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Myocarditis update from Sweden

Dr. Anish Koka

More evidence this past week that vaccine myocarditis is very much a real entity while COVID19 myocarditis is mostly a fabrication of academic researchers comes from Scandinavian countries. Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Notice that there is no spike in myocarditis diagnoses until the second half of 2021.

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Vaccine myocarditis update: Exploring the link between vaccine myocarditis and sudden cardiac death

Dr. Anish Koka

It is interesting particularly because the ensconced narrative in academic circles and the medically related twitterati that seem to have an outsized influence on COVID related policy has been that vaccine myocarditis is “mild” Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎🇺🇸🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇭🇰

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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Check : [vitals, SOB, Chest Pain, Ultrasound] If the patient has Abdominal Pain, Chest Pain, Dyspnea or Hypoxemia, Headache, Hypotension , then these should be considered the primary chief complaint (not syncope). Academic Emergency Medicine., h/o heart disease (+1) 3. Syncope with Exertion (EGSYS) 7.