Apr 16, 2021 This Week in Cardiology Podcast

This Week in Cardiology

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🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

COVID-19 vaccine-related clotting, vitamin D, anticoagulation strategies before PCI, and a good intervention at end of life are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week's podcast. https://www.medscape.com/twic

COVID-19:

How Some COVID-19 Vaccines Could Cause Rare Blood Clots https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/949262

FAQ: What to Know About the J&J Vaccine Pause https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/949231

Vitamin D Screening:

Don't Screen for Vitamin D in General Population, Says US Task Force https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/949167

Pre-PCI AC Decisions:

Parity Whether Anticoagulation Is Halted or Not for Unplanned Cath https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/949064

Uninterrupted Oral Anticoagulant Therapy in Patients Undergoing Unplanned Percutaneous Coronary Intervention https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcin.2021.01.022

Pacemaker or Defibrillator Surgery without Interruption of Anticoagulation https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1302946

Continued vs. interrupted direct oral anticoagulants at the time of device surgery, in patients with moderate to high risk of arterial thrombo-embolic events (BRUISE CONTROL-2) https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehy413

A Superb Intervention at End of Life:

Use of Comfort Care Increasing After Stroke, May Reduce Costs https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/949297

Decade‐Long Nationwide Trends and Disparities in Use of Comfort Care Interventions for Patients With Ischemic Stroke https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.120.019785

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0:00.0	You're listening to this week in cardiology from the heart.org on medscape.
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0:38.6	Hi everyone, this is John Mandrola from the Heart.org Medscape Cardiology, and this is this week in
0:45.2	Cardiology for April 16th, 2021.
0:49.7	This week, COVID vaccine vaccine-related clotting, a correction, vitamin D, anti-coagulation strategies before
0:59.2	PCI, and a very good intervention at end of life.
1:04.0	First COVID, the United States seems in a plateau
1:08.0	but with a handful of troublesome hot spots,
1:11.0	Michigan most notably. The UK curve looks amazing and of course the New
1:15.8	England Journal Medicine published real world data from Israel showing
1:19.4	that vaccinating rapidly and the most vulnerable has dramatically beneficial effects.
1:25.3	The sad news is the global rise in cases and deaths in India, Brazil, Turkey, some EU countries, and Canada.
1:34.0	Canada.
1:35.3	Numerous Canadian friends tell me of a slow vaccine rollout there.
1:39.6	Which is weird because it's always seemed to me that the Canadian health care system is the most ideal.
1:45.3	Now once again, there was another big bad piece of vaccine news this week.
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