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• Infographic: Doctors Grade Their EHR Systems Physicians reveal how well they think their employer's electronic health record (EHR) systems are or aren't delivering on certain key features.
  Medscape, December 01, 2023
• Tranexamic Acid Cuts Trauma Deaths Tranexamic acid has a modest yet significant impact on trauma mortality, according to a meta-analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, December 01, 2023
• Withholding Intubation Benefits Comatose Poisoning Patients A randomized French study reveals that withholding intubation significantly improves outcomes without compromising patient safety.
  Medscape Medical News, December 01, 2023
• ACC/AHA Issue Updated Atrial Fibrillation Guideline The new guideline proposes a new way to classify AF, emphasizes the importance of early rhythm control and lifestyle modification, and gives catheter ablation a Class 1 indication.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2023
• AHA, AAP Update Neonatal Resuscitation Guidelines The update addresses use of intact umbilical cord management in preterm, late preterm, and term newborns. It also lists optimal devices and interfaces to administer positive-pressure ventilation.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2023
• Small-Volume Bloodwork Tubes May Reduce Transfusions in ICUs Decreasing blood supply use could also preserve blood products for patients undergoing cancer treatment or surgery and for those with trauma or other illnesses.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2023
• Late-Life Increases in Pulmonary Pressure, Hypertension Age-related increases in pulmonary artery systolic pressure occur in concert with worsening left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and contribute to late-life dyspnea, new data show.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2023
• TCT 2023 Transapical Valve Replacement Relieves Mitral Regurgitation Transapical mitral valve replacement by catheter eliminated mitral regurgitation and improved hemodynamics in a frail high-risk population, results of the SUMMIT trial show.
  Medscape Medical News, November 30, 2023
• Vagus Nerve Stimulation Promising In POTS Results of a small new study support use of this non-invasive neuromodulation to treat patients with postural tachycardia syndrome.
  Medscape Medical News, November 29, 2023
• Medscape Physicians and EHRs Report 2023 Physicians reveal how long and how their medical practices have used electronic health records (EHRs), where they have ongoing concerns, and where they hope for improvements in EHR systems.
  Medscape News Slideshows, November 29, 2023
• Wisdom From a Scottish GP: The Lost Art of Convalescence   The final Medicine and the Machine podcast guest, physician and author Gavin Francis, shares his approach to keeping his occupation rewarding and satisfying.
  Medscape, November 28, 2023
• Uric Acid Levels May Influence Mortality in OSA Data from NHANES showed a nonlinear association between serum uric acid levels and all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality.
  Medscape Medical News, November 28, 2023
• Less Severe Strokes With LAA Closure vs DOAC in AF? Atrial fibrillation treated with left atrial appendage closure was associated with ischemic strokes that were less severe than those among similar patients treated with direct oral anticoagulation.
  Medscape Medical News, November 27, 2023
• Air Filtration Best Intervention Against Respiratory Viruses?   Even mask "supporters" don't like having to wear them, so perhaps we can find a better way to protect us from respiratory viruses.
  Medscape, November 27, 2023
• AHA 2023 Sudden Cardiac Deaths Down Among NCAA Athletes The incidence of sudden cardiac deaths has decreased over the past two decades among NCAA collegiate athletes but remains relatively high for male basketball players and certain other groups.
  Medscape Medical News, November 27, 2023
• Leveraging the Million Veteran Program Infrastructure and Data for a Rapid Research Response to COVID-19 The Million Veteran Program was launched to better understand how genes, lifestyle, military experience, and environmental exposures interact to influence health and illness in veterans.
  Federal Practitioner, November 22, 2023
• VA Lessons From Partnering in COVID-19 Clinical Trials The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Research and Development (ORD) supports an extensive and experienced clinical research enterprise, including the first multisite trials in the US.
  Federal Practitioner, November 22, 2023
• VA Research and COVID-19 The impressive collection of articles in this special issue provides a snapshot of the large-scale, all-hands approach the VHA adopted during the COVID-19 public health crisis.
  Federal Practitioner, November 22, 2023
• 20 Best Holiday Gift Ideas for RNs and NPs From pampering their hard-working hands and feet to personalizing their work essentials, find the perfect present for your favorite nurse.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, November 22, 2023
• AHA 2023 AI Voice Analysis App May Detect Worsening HF Early Voice analysis with an app that uses artificial intelligence may provide early warning of acute decompensated heart failure, researchers suggest. But these are early days, a cardiologist cautions.
  Medscape Medical News, November 22, 2023
• Artificial Intelligence Gives Paralyzed Woman Voice Back A brain-computer interface translates neural signals of a woman who is unable to speak, not only into text on a screen but into audible speech using a digital avatar.
  Medscape Medical News, August 23, 2023
• As MOC Debate Heats Up, Cardiology Societies Weigh In The MOC process is once again under attack by cardiologists and other specialty physicians. A petition aiming to end the requirements has garnered more than 17,000 and counting signatures.
  Medscape Medical News, August 22, 2023
• Deep Brain Stimulation Promising in Post-Stroke Recovery A small pilot study shows DBS to be both safe and efficacious in reducing motor impairment and improving recovery of upper limb function after stroke.
  Medscape Medical News, August 18, 2023
• New Practice Guidelines on Postdural Puncture Headache The guidelines provide a framework for individual clinicians to assess risk, confirm diagnosis and adopt a systematic approach to management.
  Medscape Medical News, August 18, 2023
• Only 1 in 4 Feel Fully Recovered Following COVID-19 Hospitalisation Being female, obese, and having had mechanical ventilation in hospital are all associated with being less likely to feel fully recovered one year after COVID-19 hospitalisation.
  Medscape News UK, April 26, 2022
• Cardiovascular Risk Linked with Severe COVID Risk People with an elevated 10-year cardiovascular risk score are linked to more severe COVID outcomes, in a new study.
  Medscape News UK, April 14, 2022
• Call for Tighter LDL Targets for Highest Risk Patients With multiple new lipid-lowering drugs coming on the market, and European guidelines suggesting lower than ever targets in patients with very high cardiovascular risk, experts say aim for ‘ones not twos’ with low-density lipoprotein (LDL) targets.
  Medscape News UK, November 15, 2021