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Uncategorized Published - 1 March, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
Novel Preoperative Risk Stratification Using Digital Phenotyping Applying a Scalable Machine-Learning Approach

AUTHORS: Laferrière-Langlois, Pascal MD, MS et al  Anesthesia & Analgesia December 05, 2023. | BACKGROUND: Classification of perioperative risk is important for patient care, resource allocation, and guiding shared decision-making. Using discriminative features from the electronic health record (EHR), machine-learning algorithms can create digital phenotypes among heterogenous populations, representing distinct patient subpopulations grouped by shared characteristics, […]

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Uncategorized Published - 29 February, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
Poor Agreement Between Preoperative Transthoracic Echocardiography and Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography for Grading Diastolic Dysfunction

AUTHORS: McIlroy, David R. MBBS, MD, MClinEpi, FANZCA et al  Anesthesia & Analgesia 138(1):p 123-133, January 2024. BACKGROUND: Guidelines for the evaluation and grading of diastolic dysfunction are available for transthoracic echocardiography (TTE). Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is used for this purpose intraoperatively but the level of agreement between these 2 imaging modalities for grading diastolic dysfunction […]

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Uncategorized Published - 29 February, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
Association Between Loop Diuretics and Mortality in Patients With Cardiac Surgery–Associated Acute Kidney Injury

AUTHORS: Zhu, Shouqiang MD et al Anesthesia & Analgesia November 22, 2023. BACKGROUND: Although loop diuretics (LDs) have been widely used in clinical practice, their effect on mortality when administered to patients experiencing cardiac surgery–associated acute kidney injury (CS-AKI) remains unknown. The study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of LD use in patients with CS-AKI. […]

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Uncategorized Published - 29 February, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
A closer look at how weight loss drug semaglutide improves the cardiovascular health of obese patients without diabetes

Author: Michael Walter Cardiovascular Business | Weekly treatments of semaglutide can reduce the risk of cardiovascular death, heart attack or stroke among obese patients without diabetes, according to new data presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2023 conference and simultaneously published in The New England Journal of Medicine.[1] Subcutaneous treatments of semaglutide, a GLP-1 receptor agonist […]

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Uncategorized Published - 29 February, 2024    By - Dr Clemens
Cardiologist reprimanded for performing surgery after testing positive for COVID-19

Author: Michael Walter Cardiovascular Business  Malcolm Kirk, MD, a veteran cardiologist who specializes in electrophysiology has been reprimanded by the Rhode Island Board of Medicine Licensure and Discipline for performing a surgery one day after testing positive for COVID-19. WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, reported on the story, noting that Kirk performed the procedure on Jan. 12 […]

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