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Urgent Need to Develop Best Practices to Advance Use of AI in Cardiovascular Care

DAIC

Among the objectives of this manuscript is to identify best practices as well as gaps and challenges that may improve the applicability of AI tools in each area.”

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Health Record Trigger Boosted Screening for Primary Aldosteronism

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- An electronic health record (EHR) best-practice advisory helped identify candidates for primary aldosteronism (PA) screening, a prospective quality improvement study found. Out of a pool of 57,334 adults with hypertension seen.

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What is New in the ESC Hypertension Guideline?

Hypertension Journal

Hypertension, Ahead of Print. Blood pressure guidelines serve as a beacon of best practice for the diagnosis and management of hypertension. In 2018, the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and European Society of Hypertension (ESH) released a joint guideline for the management of hypertension.1

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The Management of Elevated Blood Pressure in the Acute Care Setting: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

Hypertension Journal

Hypertension, Ahead of Print. In contrast, there is a lack of comparable evidence for guiding the management of elevated BP in the acute care setting, resulting in significant practice variation.

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Abstract WMP94: Trends in Co-morbidities and Mortality in Rescue Stenting and Elective Stenting for Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease: National Inpatient Sample Data Analysis

Stroke Journal

There were significantly higher incidences in uncontrolled hypertension (28.2% Interestingly, there was a trend towards increased co-morbidities in patients during this period, despite the improved outcomes. vs 7.9%), diabetes (33.6% vs 4.6%), obesity (26.4% vs 10.2%) in the 2020 patient group compared to the 2009 patients.

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Abstract NS1: Identification of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: The Impact of a Nurse Led Screening Tool Utilizing the Ottawa Rule

Stroke Journal

Data showed SAH patients who presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with headache (HA) and hypertension frequently had long wait times before evaluation by a provider. If criterion is met, a best practice alert (BPA) triggers within the electronic medical record.

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CTA and ACC Collaborate to Tackle Cardiovascular Disease with Technology

DAIC

This new document builds off of the previously published Best Practices for Consumer Cardiovascular Technology Solutions in January 2022. The framework outlines opportunities for the broader integration of the technology into the workflow for screening and diagnosing cardiovascular disease, using AFib and Hypertension as examples.