Dec 10, 2021 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
This Week in Cardiology
Medscape Podcasts
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🗓️ 10 December 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
AF triggers, rising BP during the pandemic, long COVID, cardiac arrest care, and social media are the topics John Mandrola, MD discusses in this week's podcast. To read a partial transcript or to comment, visit: https://www.medscape.com/twic
I – AF Triggers
- Alcoholic Drinks Stand Out in Novel Trial Exploring AF Triggers https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/962911
- Individualized Studies of Triggers of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/article-abstract/2786196
II – BP Increase During the Pandemic
- Blood Pressure Control Worsened During COVID Pandemic https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/964329
- Rise in Blood Pressure Observed Among US Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.057075
III – DOAC after VTE
- Apixaban Outmatches Rivaroxaban for VTE in Study https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/964301
- Risk for Recurrent Venous Thromboembolism and Bleeding With Apixaban Compared With Rivaroxaban: An Analysis of Real-World Data https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/full/10.7326/M21-0717
- Ticagrelor or Prasugrel in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1908973
IV – Long Covid
- In Long COVID, CPET Finds Abnormalities Other Tests Don't https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/964250
- Use of Cardiopulmonary Stress Testing for Patients With Unexplained Dyspnea Post–Coronavirus Disease https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchf.2021.10.002
V – Cardiac Arrest Care
- Calcium Does Not Benefit Patients in Cardiac Arrest https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/964059
- Effect of Intravenous or Intraosseous Calcium vs Saline on Return of Spontaneous Circulation in Adults With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2786819
VI – Social Media
- Online Reviews Most Important Factor in Choosing a Doctor: Survey https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/964264
Features:
- Booze Out, Coffee Okay to Outsmart Atrial Fibrillation? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/961993
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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 |
| 0:45.1 | Cardiology for December 10th 2021. |
| 0:48.9 | This week, AFIB, blood pressure rises during the pandemic, long COVID, cardiac arrest care, and a brief |
| 0:57.9 | word on social media. |
| 1:00.2 | First up, AF triggers. What triggers an AF episode in an individual patient comes up often. |
| 1:07.2 | If you can find a pattern to PAF, the solution is easy. |
| 1:10.8 | Just avoid the trigger. The UCSF group has done and is doing great work on AF triggers, |
| 1:18.0 | which is a topic that we see all the time in Cardiology Clinic. |
| 1:22.6 | They recently presented and published in Jama Cardiology |
| 1:26.0 | the I Stop A-Fib trial, first author Greg Marcus. |
| 1:31.1 | This trial tested the hypothesis that N of 1 trials of self selected A of triggers would improve |
| 1:38.6 | quality of life in patients with A-Fib. An N of one trials when a patient acts as their own control. |
| 1:47.0 | This differs from regular trials in which we get mean outcomes from two populations, the active arm and the control arm. |
| 1:55.0 | An N of one trial can demonstrate how a given individual react particular interventions. |
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