July 16, 2021 This Week in Cardiology Podcast
This Week in Cardiology
Medscape Podcasts
4.9 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
COVID-19, Ivermectin, a dissolving pacer, clinician well-being, and finerenone are discussed this week.
1 COVID-19
US 'Losing Time' Against Delta Variant, NIH Chief Says https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/954882
Ivermectin for COVID: How Do We Know What to Believe? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/954681
2 Dissolving Pacemaker
Dissolving Pacemaker Impressive in Early Research https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/954774
3 Clinician Well-being
Global Heart Organizations Unite to Promote Clinician Well-Being https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/954803
Clinician Well-Being: Addressing Global Needs for Improvements in the Health Care Field A Joint Opinion From the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, European Society of Cardiology, and the World Heart Federation https://www.jacc.org/toc/jacc/0/0
From Triple to Quadruple Aim: Care of the Patient Requires Care of the Provider https://www.annfammed.org/content/12/6/573.full
Bullying in Academic Medicine Rife, Underreported https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/954709
4 Finerenone
FDA Approves Finerenone (Kerendia) for Slowing CKD in Type 2 Diabetes https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/954606
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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 |
| 0:45.3 | Cardiology for July 16th 2021. This week COVID-19 Ibermectin, a dissolving pacemaker, clinician well-being, and Finerinone, a new |
| 0:57.2 | mineralicoid receptor antagonist. First up COVID, and my gosh the pandemic is completely exhausting. |
| 1:06.0 | Geographic hotspots of rising hospitalizations remain and most of the patients |
| 1:10.9 | ill enough to be in the hospital are not vaccinated. |
| 1:14.0 | I'd estimate that 1 in 10 of my clinic patients don't plan to be vaccinated. |
| 1:20.0 | And most of these folks are not persuadable. |
| 1:23.0 | Now some are and I've had some rare successes. |
| 1:26.0 | But the thing is, while most people are happily getting the vaccine |
| 1:31.0 | because of course the injections offer protection against the disease |
| 1:35.0 | it still seems unrealistic to think that all American patients are just going to comply with the vaccine. |
| 1:44.0 | I mean people are not robots that make decisions based on odds ratios. |
| 1:49.0 | People feel risk and for some people the risk of the vaccine is real. |
| 1:55.0 | Remember, if people made decisions purely based on harm benefit calculations, |
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