Are Cannabis Edibles Safer Than Smoking? - The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/01/29/wel…

Nightmare in the cath lab 😱

The balloon gets stuck after post-dilation. It gets worse the shaft breaks when you try to pull the system out - you can't retrieve it, you can't snare it.

😨What would you do?

jeroen sonck jcspratt PCRonline 🫀

Big news from the NRMP:

Starting in 2026, there will be *public* reporting of match outcomes for medical schools and applicant demographic data for programs.

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We Are Chasing Impact, Not Impact Factor—my video w/my vision for #JACC . I was frustrated with the peer-reviewed journal establishment, and now I am part of it. So…can we create author-centricity, and high-value for society. JACC Journals youtube.com/watch?v=bbHSR6…

Never a dull moment in #realworld #CLI patient. Shearing off a V18 with pedal access then trouble shoot AMP the CLI Meeting Multidisciplinary CLI Network - CLI Global Society SCAI Now American College of Cardiology AHA Peripheral Vascular Disease Council SIR RFS Srini Tummala MD FSIR FSVM Venkat Tummala MD Lorenzo Patrone Kumar Madassery Keith Pereira MD, #VIrad Hady Lichaa, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FSVM, RPVI Robert A Lookstein MD, MHCDL Mark Lessne, MD

More of our fellows working hard while also getting to enjoy Atlanta at #ACC24

Great presentations by the Baystate Cardiology fellows at #ACC2024 Baystate Health UMass Chan Medical School American College of Cardiology UMass-Chan Baystate IM

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Inside the rise and fall of Steward’s Ralph de la Torre bostonglobe.com/2024/03/29/met…

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Attending physicians at Mass General Brigham Salem Hospital, have voted to form a union with Council 93 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

The Physicians Union comprises attending physicians who are 'dedicated to advocating for their

Wow ...

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) combining clinical departments and academic programs across as single departments.

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MINT (Restrictive vs liberal transfusion in MI)
PEP (death or MI): Adjusted RR 1.15, 0.99-1.34, p=0.07
No significant difference! Is that not an uncharitable inference?
Effect ranged from 1% benefit to 34% harm.
Prob of RR >1.10 = 72%!; RR >1 = 97%

If you didn’t believe me when I said that the loss of ERAS revenue is an existential threat for the AAMC, take a look at this ‘not for circulation’ e-mail they sent to medical school deans, urging them to keep program directors from switching to another application system.

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Some LV pseudoaneurysms are bigger than others. Failed to thrombose with largest ASD occluder due to a small residual crescentic defect. Came back to pack it. 6.5x4cm by CTA

Today is Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day!🫀This January, our structural heart team reached a monumental milestone: 2,000 successful TAVR procedures! That's 2,000+ lives enhanced with this revolutionary alternative to traditional open-heart surgery. Great work all!

Congratulation Andrew M. Goldsweig, MD, MS, Baystate research team, and Cath lab at Baystate Health for being the #1 enrolling site for OCCLUFLEX trial. Andrew M. Goldsweig, MD, MS using the Occlutech new delivery system. Cardiac Interventions Today SCAI Now

Is an echocardiographer's primary site of practice associated with whether they report paradoxical low flow, low gradient aortic stenosis as *severe* aortic stenosis? We show it may matter more than experience or volume Kamil Faridi MD MSc Lissa Sugeng American Society of Echocardiography

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Amid recall crisis, Philips agrees to stop selling sleep apnea machines in the U.S. - ProPublica apple.news/Asw8fpNUtTPmSZ…

Thanks JACC Journals for highlighting this work.

In cardiac surgery, procedures are combined routinely (CABG, valves, MAZE, LAAL, etc.).

If safe & effective, we can treat more efficiently & avoid extra procedures by combining in cardiology too!

Baystate Health Amir Lotfi

Baystate Cardiology Baystate Valve and Structural Heart Team celebrates 2000th TAVR and being a ‘High Performing’ TAVR program in the country! New England Valve and Structural Heart Foundation American College of Cardiology SCAI Now