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Leveraging AI-Enabled Remote Cardiac Monitoring to Improve Cardiovascular Care

DAIC

As a result, healthcare faces rising expenses from frequent emergency room visits, lengthy hospital stays, costly procedures like stent placements and bypass surgeries, as well as the long-term management of chronic conditions like heart failure (HF). These costs represent a massive portion of total health expenditures.

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American College of Cardiology Sets Full Range of Education Sessions and Meetings ACC Scientific Session, ACC.24

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Featured topics will include in-depth sessions covering non-statin lipid lowering therapies, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, viability, imaging modalities for the assessment of coronary artery disease, and antiplatelet therapy after coronary stenting.

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A female in her 60s who was lucky to get expert ECG interpretation

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Submitted and written by Alex Bracey, with edits by Pendell Meyers and Steve Smith: I was walking through the critical care section of the ED when I overheard a discussion about the following ECG. The patient was then taken to the cath lab an found to have a proximal RCA 100% thrombotic occlusion which was successfully stented.

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STEMI with Life-Threatening Hypokalemia and Incessant Torsades de Pointes

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This was stented. Crit Care Med. 1991 May;19(5):694-9 Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of potassium replacement infusions in critically ill patients. Setting: Multidisciplinary critical care unit. Heart failure leading to death was related to all subclasses of PVC. mmol/L (n = 26), 3.0

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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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Patient is informed of her husband's death: is it OMI or it stress cardiomyopathy?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

After stent deployment, we often see improvement in the ST-T within seconds or minutes. Here is the final angiogram following placement of a stent in the ostial RCA. 2:04 PM, post stent deployment You can see that even after complete restoration of flow, the ECG still looks terrible, V most of all. link] Jentzer, J. Kashou, A.