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News, opinions and meeting coverage in critical care.

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A Dose of Hope

Focusing on our community will lift us from these dark times

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Post-MitraClip Gradients Not So Dangerous After All

COAPT analysis suggests benefit of MR reduction offsets risk of mitral stenosis

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COVID Deaths Higher With Neuro Syndromes in Hospitalized Patients

Encephalopathy, coma most prevalent neurologic manifestations

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Global Stroke Care Takes a Hit During the Pandemic

Seventy-country study finds ties to drop in volume of stroke hospitalizations, treatment

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Op-Ed: The Energy-Draining Life of a Physician

It's a long, hard road, so you must find your passion

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COVID Stroke Rare in ICU

Ischemic stroke in intensive care didn't raise mortality, but hemorrhagic stroke did

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Op-Ed: These Hospital COVID Restrictions Are Dumb

And they aren't based in science, according to ZDoggMD

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Reassuring Data on Tranexamic Acid and Blood Clots

Yet concerns of thrombotic complications remain

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CaMKII Inhibitor Disappoints in Post-MI Cardioprotection

First agent of its kind to test the waters in heart disease

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Inhaled Steroid for Early COVID-19 Passes Another Test

New analysis demonstrates speedier recovery for patients treated at home

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Comfort Care on the Rise in Acute Stroke

Trends show steep drop in death in-hospital with palliative interventions

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Donor Heart Preserver Survives Review by FDA Advisors

Panel had many bones to pick with the Transmedics OCS device

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Cath Lab Team Easily Trained to Do Stroke Intervention

European center reports good results from the start of its endovascular program

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Stripped of Hospital Privileges, St. Louis Cardiologists Go to Court

Suit against SSM Health seeks $50 million if former status not restored

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Was This Doctor Wrongly Terminated?

Mark Haganman, DO, says he was fired for raising concerns about COVID safety practices

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COVID Monoclonal Antibodies: Do They Work in Dialysis?

Early data suggests efficacy but with big caveats

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Being a Doctor Is My 'Heart-Song'

Even if it's not always easy

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Harmony Pulmonary Valve Gets FDA Nod

Transcatheter valve implantation approved for people without surgical RVOT conduits

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Benzene Found in Multiple Hand Sanitizer Brands

Known human carcinogen can be absorbed through the skin

What to Make of That Danish Reinfection Study?

Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, discusses the findings and their takeaway

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Bacon and Dementia Risk; Zinc Fingers and Tau; Older Adults Light Up

News and commentary from the world of neurology and neuroscience

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Positive Data Salvaged for Thrombectomy on Basilar Strokes

BEST, BASICS trials not wholly negative, group finds

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'They Stopped Treating and the Effect Persisted': What We Heard This Week

Quotable quotes from 番茄社区's sources

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COVID Strokes: Rates, Types, Disparities

The latest stroke data from the pandemic illuminates patterns

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Stroke Thrombectomy: 6-Hour Threshold Not So Relevant?

Pooled trial analysis supports move to imaging-based criteria

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Stroke Care: Some Progress on Racial Disparities

But substantial gaps remain

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Adjustable Stent Retriever Passes Muster

Novel device offers better grip on clots in LVO strokes

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Intermediate-Dose Clot Prevention Flops for Severe COVID

Prophylactic anticoagulation reigns in the ICU

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'COVID-to-COVID' Double Lung Transplant Performed

Northwestern calls February procedure a success, opens door to more

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Novel Vasoregulator Explored for Acute Ischemic Strokes

Early results may signal benefit for those not treated with thrombectomy

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Loop Recorder Proves Mettle in Broader Stroke Population

STROKE AF trial supports use outside of cryptogenic stroke category

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Don't Ditch the tPA in Stroke Thrombectomy Yet

Direct endovascular therapy dealt a blow in MR CLEAN-NO IV

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Time to Stop Routine Anesthesia for Stroke Thrombectomy?

Neurologists debate pandemic-related guidelines

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COVID-19 Treatments: What's In, What's Out

A look at which treatments are effective -- and which aren't

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Immediate Angiography Feasible for Large Vessel Stroke Patients

Not stopping patients in the ED improved hospital workflow and patient outcomes

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Multi-City Study Bolsters Case for Mobile Stroke Units

But reimbursement woes, balkanized EMS agencies block path to broader use

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Op-Ed: Did We Hurt Healthcare Workers With Bad Mask Advice?

ZDoggMD discusses new evidence that suggests we did

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Uneven Progress Closing Race Gap in Heart Health

Urban areas more successful at narrowing disparities

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Holding tPA for All DOAC Users Not the Way to Go, Stroke Docs Say

Clinical conundrum could be solved by a point-of-care DOAC test

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Intracoronary Imaging Backed in Hunt for Vulnerable Plaques

But is labor-intensive IVUS-NIRS practical in the real world?

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