Bedside Heart Pump Insertion: No Trip to the Cath Lab Necessary? Cardiogenic shock patients could stay in the cardiac ICU for IABP placement, group finds Apr 15, 2022
Even With CKD, Patiromer Helped Heart Failure Patients Keep Hyperkalemia at Bay Promising findings from prespecified renal analysis of the DIAMOND trial Apr 09, 2022
Systemic Corticosteroids in Acute HF: Worth Another Look? Some see a potential treatment for patients with more inflammation Apr 08, 2022
COVID-Related AKI Chronically Hard on Kidneys More critically ill COVID patients developed CKD versus bacterial pneumonia patients Apr 08, 2022
Cardiac Monitoring Finds Arrhythmias, but Treatment Did Not Improve Outcomes No differences in mortality, hospitalization between monitored patients and control patients Apr 05, 2022
Nafcillin a Safe Option for Late-Onset Sepsis in Preemies Guidelines to reduce vancomycin use at an Ohio hospital did not affect mortality rate Apr 05, 2022
TAVR Valve Outlasts Surgical Bioprostheses at 5 Years No longer assume that TAVR bioprostheses are inherently less durable Apr 05, 2022
Patiromer Limits Impact of RAAS Inhibitor-Related Hyperkalemia in HF Patients better able to achieve target dose of mineralocorticoids and angiotensin inhibitors Apr 04, 2022
Flu Vaccine Didn't Stop Vascular Events in Heart Failure Patients But study in lower income countries sees hint of benefit during peak disease season Apr 04, 2022
EHR Pop-Ups Spur Better GDMT Implementation in Heart Failure Alert-based intervention in PROMPT-HF trial said to be low-cost, scalable Apr 03, 2022
Low-Salt Diet Helpful for HF Symptoms, but Not Necessarily for Clinical Events Sodium restriction still holds its ground in SODIUM-HF trial Apr 02, 2022
Obstructive HCM: Will Septal Reduction Zapping Hold Up? More progress on PIMSRA at one Chinese center Mar 30, 2022
Pumping (IV) Iron Linked to Varying Anaphylaxis Risk for Older Adults Study finds risk was low, but unequal across different products Mar 28, 2022
Infamous Vitamin C Study May Rely on Fraudulent Data Statistician alleges data in study led by Paul Marik, MD, were fabricated Mar 25, 2022
It's Not Over for Aspirin in Moderate COVID-19 Results more favorable for older people, those with comorbidities Mar 24, 2022
Blood Clots More Likely With COVID Versus Pneumonia More testing needed in COVID patients, researchers say Mar 24, 2022
Antiplatelets Don't Get Critically Ill COVID Patients Off Ventilation Sooner REMAP-CAP trial weighs in on addition of aspirin, P2Y12 inhibitors Mar 22, 2022
COVID Vaccines Staved Off Severe Outcomes During Omicron Racial disparities in hospitalizations also highlighted in latest CDC studies Mar 18, 2022
Awake Prone Positioning: Which COVID Patients Benefit? Meta-analysis supports maneuver to reduce need for intubation in these groups Mar 17, 2022
More Clues Emerge for Brain Bleed Prognosis Large study identifies some novel risk factors for mortality, disability Mar 15, 2022
'Exceptional' ECMO Outcomes in COVID-19 Reflect Early Choices When not used for last-ditch salvage, high proportion survive and recover lung function Mar 10, 2022
Does Post-Discharge Dexamethasone Help COVID Patients? No apparent benefit among those receiving less than 10 days of the steroid during hospitalization Mar 09, 2022
CMS Sepsis Measurement Under Fire Measure doesn't work and its re-endorsement process was flawed, critics say Mar 08, 2022
Concussions Linked to Mental Health Issues in Kids Higher risks of self-harm and psychiatric hospitalization seen vs orthopedic injury Mar 07, 2022
Bob Saget's Traumatic Brain Injury The "Full House" star died from accidental head trauma Mar 03, 2022
Russian Missile Hits Maternity Hospital Near Kyiv "The damage is huge, but the building is standing," says medical director Mar 02, 2022
ARB-Cancer Link May Come Down to Cumulative Exposure Does a new paper resolve the conflicting safety data on the popular antihypertensives? Mar 02, 2022
Comatose Cardiac Arrest Survivors Don't Need Brain Misfires Suppressed Trial finds seizure meds unwarranted for aberrant EEG patterns in the ICU Feb 23, 2022
Bad Falls and Bad Calls: Speculation on Bob Saget's Death Second-guessing the forensic pathologist was bad science and lazy journalism Feb 23, 2022
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