Early Seizures After Traumatic Brain Injury Tied to Epilepsy, Mortality TBI severity, prior comorbidities up risk of early seizures Feb 22, 2022
Cardiac Arrest Patients Don't Necessarily Do Better With Intubation Debate on prehospital advanced airway management continues Feb 18, 2022
A Simple Way to Tell When Asymptomatic Aortic Stenosis Isn't So Benign Could regular NT-proBNP testing be of value to patients with non-severe AS? Feb 16, 2022
Certification Status Makes a Difference for Stroke Centers Lower-level hospitals performing a "surprising" number of thrombectomies Feb 12, 2022
Evidence for Stroke Thrombectomy in Kids 'as Good as It Gets' Expansion of EVT bolstered by population-based study from Australia Feb 11, 2022
Stroke Clot Composition Linked to Functional Outcomes, Death Study hints at personalized treatment potential Feb 11, 2022
DOACs Working Out for CVT Strokes So Far Findings of ACTION-CVT provide some reassurance Feb 10, 2022
Can Tenecteplase Help Late-Presenting Strokes? Early phase data from China suggestive of benefit Feb 10, 2022
Thrombectomy Helps Large Core Strokes Randomized trial shows "surprising" magnitude of benefit on par with that in smaller infarcts Feb 09, 2022
DAPT De-Escalation Carves Out a Role After Heart Attack PCI More to consider than standard versus short DAPT Feb 07, 2022
ACIP Embraces Spikevax Amid Serious Talk of Changing mRNA Dosing Interval Would longer time between doses do the trick to reduce myocarditis risk? Feb 04, 2022
Adult Congenital Heart Surgery: Go for the Pediatric Specialists? Study suggests worse outcomes at adult centers with expertise in other heart surgeries Jan 31, 2022
Slammed to the Max: This Hospital Has Hovered at Capacity Since Pandemic Began Staffing is at the breaking point, and diversion isn't an option Jan 31, 2022
IV Hyperimmune Immunoglobulin No Help in Severe COVID Randomized trial finds no benefit for hospitalized patients Jan 28, 2022
Two Antivirals No Better Than One for Severe Flu Randomized trial finds no difference when adding baloxavir to standard antivirals Jan 26, 2022
Was DOAC to Blame for Patient's LVAD Pump Thrombosis? Direct oral anticoagulant tried after warfarin resistance fell short in this patient with obesity Jan 21, 2022
Microbiome Therapy Cut Post-Antibiotic C. Diff Recurrence Phase III trial showed "two-pronged" approach worked, regardless of age, antibiotic type Jan 19, 2022
Death During Sex: Not Just an Old Man Thing But sudden cardiac death remains rare even for sexually active people with heart conditions Jan 12, 2022
Controversial Doc Resigns From Medical School Paul Marik, MD, has been embroiled in legal battle with Virginia hospital Jan 05, 2022
At Their Breaking Point, Nurses Plead With Public in COVID Videos "Hospital staff are paying the price" of vaccine misinformation Dec 20, 2021
ECG Monitoring for Post-TAVR Delayed Conduction Disturbances Put to the Test How long should monitoring last, and in whom? Dec 20, 2021
Next Up in Drug Shortages: Potassium Chloride Healthcare providers facing a nationwide shortage of the intravenous formulation Dec 17, 2021
Post-Stroke Epilepsy Treatment May Influence Mortality All-cause death lowest in people taking lamotrigine Dec 13, 2021
Hospitals in the Midwest Face New COVID Surge Amid increasing Delta cases, staffing is down, and Omicron looms Dec 09, 2021
Does High-Flow Oxygen Improve Outcomes in COVID Patients? Randomized trial examines two types of oxygen therapy in severe cases Dec 07, 2021
Head Trauma Patients on Blood Thinners Need Surveillance Delayed intracranial bleeding observed in patients Dec 01, 2021
Doctor's Ivermectin Fight With Hospital Continues On Judge allows one of Paul Marik's claims to proceed Nov 30, 2021
Study: Some Venous Catheters Safer Than Others May help settle what kind to prefer for short-term venous access Nov 29, 2021
The Right Ventricle Still Matters in LVAD Patients Right heart failure signaled trouble ahead in the Intermacs registry Nov 29, 2021
Doctor Sues Hospital Over Ivermectin Ban Amid Journal Article Retraction Virginia hospital took issue with article co-authored by Paul Marik, MD Nov 17, 2021
Hospitalized Acute HF Patients See Clinical Benefits With Empagliflozin EMPULSE results support early start for the SGLT2 inhibitor, but more data needed, expert says Nov 16, 2021
Peak VO2 Improved After Beta-Blocker Withdrawal in Some HFpEF Patients Beta-blockers may not benefit HFpEF patients with chronotropic incompetence Nov 15, 2021
Two Anticoagulants -- When Used Correctly -- Similarly Protective Against Dementia GIRAF trial tested warfarin versus dabigatran in older Afib patients Nov 14, 2021
Delaying Surgery Hurts Patients With Silent Aortic Stenosis Early aortic valve replacement wins in AVATAR trial Nov 13, 2021
Aspirin: How Low Can You Go? The Skeptical Cardiologist probes the literature on 30-mg aspirin Nov 10, 2021
DCBs for the Coronaries: Early Victories for New Drug Coatings Researchers eye next gen drug-coated balloons despite lack of FDA OK for use in PCI Nov 07, 2021
Gastrointestinal Damage Nearly Universal With Antiplatelet Use After PCI Noninvasive endoscopy in OPT-PEACE reveals surprises about GI effects of antiplatelets Nov 07, 2021
More Good News for Empagliflozin in Patients With Heart Failure Slower renal function decline with SGLT-2 inhibitor in EMPEROR-Preserved trial Nov 06, 2021
