Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Allied Health

AUGUST 24, 2022

Webinar Arrest after Cardiac Surgery: Is Your Team Ready? kchalko Wed, 08/24/2022 - 08:44 August 18, 2022 During this installment of the STS Webinar Series, an expert panel highlights a team-based approach to managing cardiac surgery patients who suffer sudden postoperative cardiac arrest. The panel also discusses the implementation of Cardiac Surgery Advanced Life Support protocols and their utility in failure-to-rescue algorithms.

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EMS 12-Lead

AUGUST 22, 2022

David Didlake Firefighter / Paramedic Acute Care Nurse Practitioner @DidlakeDW Expert commentary and peer review by Dr. Jesse McLaren @ECGcases [link] [link] This case was kindly submitted by Dr. Paco Dardon (@PacoDardon), and it’s a privilege to present it as a formal review due to the many pathophysiological, and electrophysiological, phenomenon at play.

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Open Heart

AUGUST 22, 2022

Objective Adjuvant chemotherapy with trastuzumab improves the postoperative life expectancy of women with early-stage breast cancer. Although trastuzumab is reportedly cardiotoxic, quantification based on real-world evidence is lacking. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to analyse trastuzumab cardiotoxicity using a nationwide claim-based database. Methods In this retrospective study, we used data from a nationwide claims database (Japan Medical Data Center, Tokyo, Japan) under the universal hea

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

AUGUST 26, 2022

26th August 2022 And so, after a great deal of faffing about, my article on cardiovascular disease ‘Assessing cardiovascular disease: looking beyond cholesterol’ has been made free to view. Writing an article for a medical journal is not that difficult. Trying to submit it through Kafkaesque editorial systems, now, that is tricky. They seem incapable of understanding that I am not funded by anyone.

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Medical Xpress - ECG

AUGUST 23, 2022

A survey of 507 U.S. women found that most were amenable to using wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) technology throughout their pregnancy to monitor maternal and fetal health, according to a UW Medicine-led study published recently in the Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics.

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

AUGUST 24, 2022

24th August 2022 As a change in direction, I thought I would share a short story I wrote. This was an entry to the New England Journal of Medicine competition. This one under the theme “A patient who presented too late”. It did not win, but I thought some of the readers of this blog may like it. THE REASON WHY The ewe was suffering, lying on its side, its bleat reduced to a painful gasp.

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