Lung Ultrasound Beats X-Rays in COVID Pneumonia Screening Patients with negative scans typically go home, while positives head to CT Nov 01, 2020
Cardiac ICU: AHA Drafts Guidance for Best Practices Scientific statement aims to optimize specialized critical care, pending more rigorous evidence Oct 29, 2020
Physicians Push Back on Trump's Claim of Inflated COVID Deaths Accusations provoke outrage; but president has his believers too Oct 27, 2020
Newborns Getting Preoperative Blood Transfusions Have More Complications Data favor restrictive transfusion strategy Oct 22, 2020
First COVID-19 Wave Offers ICUs Lessons for Next Time Medication shortages forced hospitals to get creative, but staff shortages still loom large Oct 20, 2020
No Aspirin Post-STEMI Stent; Sapien 3 Stroke Risk; and More It's a TICO-STEMI, SOLVE-TAVI, FLASH, and IREMMI trial data round-up Oct 19, 2020
TAVR For Failing TAVR Doesn't Impress in Registry Data 5 year data for TAVR after SAVR looks "more optimistic" Oct 17, 2020
Sobering Efficacy Data for TriGuard 3 Deflector in TAVR Randomized trials on embolic protection devices are ongoing Oct 16, 2020
ACS Patients Benefit From Bivalirudin During PCI, Pooled Data Show Risks can be mitigated with infusion strategy, patient-level meta-analysis finds Oct 14, 2020
More Evidence Points to Role of Blood Type in COVID-19 Two studies find ties to infection susceptibility, severity, but with caveats Oct 14, 2020
Registry: Door-to-Balloon Times No Slower in COVID-19 Patients North American registry shows worse outcomes even so Oct 14, 2020
Is PCI the Answer to Vulnerable Plaques That Don't Limit Flow? Some success with BVS placement in PROSPECT ABSORB Oct 14, 2020
How Beaumont's Megamerger Fell Apart Staff, donors at Detroit-area system upset as "efficiency" seemed to be pushing patient care aside Oct 08, 2020
Virtual Heart Failure Care No Substitute for the Face-to-Face Visit? Reduced GDMT titration suggests a dip in quality of care Oct 05, 2020
Kaletra Again Fails for Moderate-to-Severe COVID-19 RECOVERY trial affirms smaller trial findings Oct 05, 2020
Phrenic Nerve Stimulation Holds Up for Central Sleep Apnea Apnea indices, daytime sleepiness improved over 5 years Oct 05, 2020
Stress Tests: A Waning Practice Before Knee, Hip Replacement Yet one surprising group actually saw an increase Sep 30, 2020
COVID-19 in Health Workers; Stimulating New White Blood Cells: It's TTHealthWatch! This week's topics also include gene expression and COVID infection, and outbreaks in childcare settings Sep 19, 2020 podcast
COVID-19 Storms: Bradykinin In, Cytokine Out? Papers poke holes in cytokine storm as gene expression study offers a new theory Sep 11, 2020
Bedside MRI Feasible in ICU, for COVID-19 Study showed abnormalities found without any complications from the device Sep 09, 2020
When COVID-19 Really Is 'Just Another Flu' Imagine a world as jaded about SARS-CoV-2 as it is about influenza Sep 08, 2020
The Real Reason Post-COVID Myocarditis Is a Worry Sorry, it's not all about football, cardiologist argues Sep 08, 2020
Angiography for Cardiac Arrest Survivors: No Need to Rush Findings from 1-year follow-up of the COACT trial Sep 02, 2020
Does Ejection Fraction Matter Anymore? Experts debate whether familiar metric still has a place in heart failure management Sep 02, 2020
ESC Offers Sports, Exercise Guide for Heart Disease Patients Addresses broad spectrum and specific conditions Sep 01, 2020
The Cost of Herd Immunity in the U.S. Likely involves more than a million deaths; "That cannot be our price" Sep 01, 2020
'Definitive Data': Continuing ACE/ARB Tx Safe in COVID-19 Randomized trial affirms no harm in mild to moderate coronavirus cases Sep 01, 2020
REALITY Check: Stricter RBC Transfusion Safe for Anemic MI Patients Restrictive strategy makes sense for clinical outcomes, costs Sep 01, 2020
HCA Hospitals Accused of Requiring COVID-Infected Nurses to Work OSHA complaint says hospital chain allows "gravely dangerous" working conditions Aug 31, 2020
SGLT2 Inhibitor Wows in Chronic Kidney Disease DAPA-CKD shows fewer renal events, prolonged overall survival Aug 30, 2020
PARALLAX Trial: Mixed Results With Entresto in HFpEF No boost in 6-minute walk test, but some heart failure biomarkers did improve Aug 30, 2020
Antianginal Tx Fails to Make a Difference After Coronary Stenting Prophylactic trimetazidine doesn't enhance optimal medical therapy Aug 30, 2020
Aspirin Alone Best Bet for Majority of Post-TAVR Patients Lessons from DAPT in PCI do not translate to TAVR, researchers find Aug 30, 2020
Low-Dose DOAC Valuable in Afib After Age 80 Randomized trial suggests benefit on par with warfarin in younger groups Aug 30, 2020
