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CVRx Announces Key Senior Leadership Team Hires

DAIC

Dr. Adamson earned his MD with distinction from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and MSc in physiology from the University of Oklahoma. Thomas University, a BA from Concordia University, and an AS in Nursing from Normandale Community College. He will begin his employment at CVRx on May 23, 2024.

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

DAIC

The authors note that consumer wearables, including smartwatches and fitness trackers that detect physical activity, heart rate, and other physiological parameters, may or may not include FDA -approved components. Effectiveness and accuracy of wearable devices vary based on many factors including the type of sensor(s) in the device.

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Red Meat and Diabetes: Untangling Causation from Correlation

Physiologically Speaking

Physiologically Speaking is a reader-supported publication. 1 The polarizing study investigated the association between red meat and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) incidence in three American prospective cohorts: the Nurses' Health Studies I, (NHS-I), Nurses' Health Studies II (NHS-II), and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS).

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Distractions

EMS 12-Lead

David Didlake Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Firefighter / Paramedic (Ret) @DidlakeDW Expert contribution by Dr Robert Herman @RobertHermanMD @PowerfulMedical (Chief Medical Officer) An adult male called 911 for new-onset epigastric burning. Fire/EMS crews found him clammy and uncomfortable. Quite frankly, none of this matters acutely!

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What Lies Beneath

EMS 12-Lead

The combination of prolonged QT and deep T wave inversion throughout the precordium is typical of Takotsubo syndrome, or Stress Cardiomyopathy – which can occur in the context of a physiologically distressed ICU patient, further compromising their hemodynamics.

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Are these Hyperacute T-waves?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

It’s an intubated septic nursing home patient." Electrocardiology 40: 475-477, 2007 ) — which is the BEST review I’ve seen on the physiology explaining the relative size of artifact deflections when the cause of the artifact is from a single extremity. Here is her old ECG:" What do you think?

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Hyperkalemia

EMS 12-Lead

David Didlake Firefighter / Paramedic Acute Care Nurse Practitioner @DidlakeDW Peer review provided by Dr. Steve Smith [link] @SmithECGBlog An adult female called 911 for chest discomfort and difficulty breathing. Physiology. Chapter 4: Cardiovascular Physiology. Journal of Electrocardiology, 37 (3), 149-156. [3] 4] Parham, W.