"OAC alone for 6 to 12 months after ACS or PCI, including patients at high risk for atherothrombotic events, lowers cardiovascular mortality, major bleeding, and NACE without any apparent trade-off compared with OAC + SAPT" www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... @jaccjournals.bsky.social
104K screened to identify 280 with major CV conditions, cost (ECG ~$50 and echos ~$500, not clinician time) is about $26K per patient. 29 patients experienced sudden death, despite screening @accintouch.bsky.social www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...
Novel camera can visualize scatter radiation in real time www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... @jaccjournals.bsky.social
JNC Early Career Editorial Board: Call for Applications, due by April 4 www.asnc.org/news-publica... @asnc.bsky.social
Most physicians practice where they train, among FM docs, CA, MN, OR, TX, VT retained >70% between 2007 and 2018, while <40% remained in RI, DC, and WY.https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2025.01003
Burnout in primary care was 44% in the US, similar to UK, Canada, and New Zealand. Lowest in Netherlands/Sweden around 15-20%. www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...
From 2018-2022, 451 Private equity primary care buyouts, staffing increased by 0.39 clinicians per practice, offset by departure of 0.22 www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...
Why is tricuspid valve endocarditis is more common in persons who inject IV drugs? curiousclinicians.libsyn.com/archive-more... @curiousclinpod.bsky.social
Should we use a lottery for residency selection? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq4a... @jbcarmody.bsky.social Agree about UME incentives, that was one of the reasons that NBME used to justify creation of Step 2 CK
"Are Thousands of Medical Cures Hiding in Plain Sight?" @freakonomics.bsky.social freakonomics.com/podcast/are-...
New guidelines on pulmonary embolus are out, they provide a framework for escalating therapy based on risk, derived from clinical, imaging, and lab assessment. The at-a-glance document provides a great quick summary. @accintouch.bsky.social www.jacc.org/doi/epdf/10.... www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...
How does calcium "stabilize the membranes" in hyperkalemia? The Curious Clinicians lay out the evidence curiousclinicians.libsyn.com/reboot-hyper...
Survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that the public's #1 healthcare concern is prior auth, nearly half of Americans have been denied, delayed, or forced into alternative care www.kff.org/public-opini...
More than half of Mississippi’s rural hospitals at risk of closure, report finds www.wapt.com/article/more... actual report: chqpr.org/downloads/Ru... Among Florida's rural hospitals, 36% at risk
References on the increase in US healthcare spending from 1776 to present day www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/... www.cms.gov/research-sta... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Non-medical androgen use and risk of CV events onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
First in human, ischemia-free, beating heart transplantation www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... @jaccjournals.bsky.social #cardiosky
“Chapters are a great way for members to participate in ACC activities at a local level and get to do it in their own backyard.” -#ACCBOG Chair @drdavemd.bsky.social in a 🆕 REMARKable Conversations w/ #ACCPresident @chriskramermd.bsky.social and Dr. Eugene Yang.
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Differences in cardiac output based on thermodilution vs. direct Fick www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/... #cardiosky
Glad to share this summary of @accintouch.bsky.social Legislative conference in JACC Advances @jaccjournals.bsky.social www.jacc.org/doi/epdf/10.... #cardiosky
REMARKable Conversations with @chriskramermd.bsky.social and Dr. Eugene Yang about @accintouch.bsky.social Chapters and Sections www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfLY...
1.1 mil doctors in US. In 2013, 3.5% (~38,500) stopped practice. In 2019, that increased to 4.9% (~53,900). There were ~40,000 PGY1 spots last year. The math suggests that as of 7 years ago, the US physician workforce was shrinking by >10,000 a year
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Defining ultra-processed foods is difficult, this new document from @accintouch.bsky.social and by Dr. Kim Williams et al does that and much more www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... #cardiosky
"After private equity acquisition, hospitals on average reduced salaries and staffing relative to nonacquired hospitals, notably in the EDs and ICUs, which are higher-acuity and staffing-sensitive areas." www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
Multimodality Imaging in the Diagnostic Work-Up of Patients With Cardiac Masses www.jacc.org/doi/epdf/10.... @jaccjournals.bsky.social #cardiosky
'The prevalence and magnitude of CAD did not differ between recreational athletes with high vs low postexercise cTn, suggesting that most of the variation in exercise-induced cTn elevations is not attributable to occult CAD' @jaccjournals.bsky.social
New meta-analysis in @jaccjournals.bsky.social finds that antiplatelet treatment informed by genetic testing may reduce risk of adverse events
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Part four of @Freakonomics Guide to Getting Better on the current state of AI in healthcare freakonomics.com/podcast/can-...
Exploring mechanisms of how adipose tissue may contribute to HF www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/... @jaccjournals.bsky.social #Cardiosky
