Feb 5, 2021 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
This Week in Cardiology
Medscape Podcasts
4.9 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Carotid screening, AF and alcohol, subcutaneous ICD, and medical education are the topics discussed by John Mandrola, MD, in this week's podcast. To read a partial transcript or to comment http://www.medscape.com/twic
Carotid Screening
USPSTF Again Recommends Against Carotid Stenosis Screening https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/945202
Subcutaneous ICD Recall
FDA Recalls Subcutaneous-ICD Leads Due to Fracture Risk https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/945168
Alcohol and AF
Alcohol and the Electric Atrium, Part 2: When BAC Exceeds the Legal Limit https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/945297
Medical Education
USMLE Stuns Again: Clinical Skills Test Permanently Ended https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/944756
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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 Mandrula from the Heart.org Medscape Medscape cardiology and this is this week in |
| 0:45.0 | cardiology for February 5th 2021. This week COVID screening for |
| 0:51.2 | carotid disease sub-Q ICDs, alcohol and AFIB, and rent seeking |
| 0:58.3 | in medical education. |
| 1:01.1 | Now first COVID, my review of the Johns Hopkins site this week reveals continued good news. Cases |
| 1:06.7 | are on a steep, steep decline. In the US, California, and in the EU U. And even in Portugal cases are coming down. |
| 1:15.2 | Every day, too, more and more people receive vaccines. |
| 1:19.9 | And on social media, you no longer risk cancellation if you mentioned the term herd immunity. |
| 1:27.6 | These are all good signs. |
| 1:29.8 | Still though I was in the ICU this week and I asked the nurses how the COVID |
| 1:34.4 | situation was going. And a nurse who was dawning her PPE responded, |
| 1:39.1 | it's like Groundhog Day. What I took from her words and her look on her face was get out of here with |
| 1:46.1 | your optimism. I'll believe it when I see it. When historians tell the story of this |
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