Open Heart

JANUARY 21, 2022

Deficits in health literacy are common in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), and this is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. In this scoping review, we sought to identify health literacy interventions that aimed to improve outcomes in patients with CAD, using a contemporary conceptual model that captures multiple aspects of health literacy.

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Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Technology

JANUARY 19, 2022

Press Release The Thoracic Surgery Foundation Awards Inaugural International Fellowships January 19, 2022 jbagley Wed, 01/19/2022 - 09:52 Cardiothoracic surgeons from the US and Italy receive practice-changing funding support CHICAGO (January 19, 2022)—Through a collaborative effort between The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) and the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), two standout young surgeons recently each received $20,000 in fellowship grants to learn new techniques

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Cardiothoracic Heart Transplant Allied Health Education 52

ECG Cases

JANUARY 18, 2022

A few select videos from EM Cases Summit 2021 have been made FOAMed and available here and on our youtube channel. The latest release is with Dr. Rob Simard who explains the failings of the ACLS protocol for PEA arrest, how PoCUS pulse checks can help us differentiate true PEA from pseudoPEA, and how to integrate this information and our PoCUS skills into the flow of our cardiac arrest management.

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta

JANUARY 17, 2022

The first thing I want to say is that unfortunately the practice of modern day medicine is largely servile to clinical guidelines. We decide how to treat a patient based on how someone else (i.e whoever wrote the guideline) tells us how to manage the patient. If we stick to the guideline, we feel that we are offering top quality care and we can defend ourselves in court.

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Dementia Ablation Atrial Fibrillation Risk Factors 52

Open Heart

JANUARY 21, 2022

Objectives To describe the occurrence of significant pericardial effusion, and to investigate characteristics associated with pericardial effusion within three months following heart valve surgery. Methods A retrospective, observational cohort study including adult patients undergoing heart valve surgery at Odense University Hospital from August 2013 to November 2017.

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Heart Valves Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Aortic valve Bicuspid/Mitral 52

Open Heart

JANUARY 20, 2022

Background Cardiac arrhythmias have been observed among patients hospitalised with acute COVID-19 infection, and palpitations remain a common symptom among the much larger outpatient population of COVID-19 survivors in the convalescent stage of the disease. Objective To determine arrhythmia prevalence among outpatients after a COVID-19 diagnosis. Methods Adults with a positive COVID-19 test and without a history of arrhythmia were prospectively evaluated with 14-day ambulatory electrocardiograph

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COVID-19 Arrhythmia Outpatient Atrial Flutter 52

Open Heart

JANUARY 19, 2022

Background Circulatory failure after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) as part of the postcardiac arrest syndrome (PCAS) is believed to be caused by an initial myocardial depression that later subsides into a superimposed vasodilatation. However, the relative contribution of myocardial dysfunction and systemic inflammation has not been established.

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Cardiac Arrest Hospital Biomarkers Blood Pressure 52

Open Heart

JANUARY 21, 2022

Objectives Diastolic dysfunction (DD) has been reported to be highly prevalent in people living with HIV (PLWH) on antiretroviral therapy (ART) leading to the hypothesis that it may be an early marker of myocardial disease. Our objective was to evaluate the prevalence of DD in people living with human immunodeficiency virus without known history of diabetes or hypertension in Western Kenya.

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Risk Factors Blood Pressure Hypertension Diabetes 52

Open Heart

JANUARY 19, 2022

Objectives To determine the prevalence and types of viral pathogens in the myocardium of patients presenting with clinically suspected myocarditis in South Africa. Method This is a prospective cross-sectional study. Consecutive adults presenting to a single tertiary centre in South Africa between August 2017 and January 2021 who fulfilled the European Society of Cardiology’s diagnostic criteria for clinically suspected myocarditis and who had undergone the appropriate investigations, inclu

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