Arterial Switch Operation
Transcript of the video: Arterial switch operation is the ideal corrective surgery for D-Transposition or dextro transposition of great arteries, if it can be detected early in life. As the left ventricle is facing the pulmonary artery in dextro transposition of great arteries, if there is a delay beyond two to three weeks of life, there is possibility that the muscle mass of the left ventricle can regress, so that, later if arterial switch operation is done, it will not be able to face the systemic vascular resistance and it will fail. That is why, arterial switch operation has to be done very early in life. For the same ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - April 1, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – March 31, 2024 – 55% of Change Healthcare customers expect adverse impacts on patient care, a mobile app helped 84% of seniors lower their blood pressure after 6 months, plus 19 more stories
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
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The State Department is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information about the ALPHV BlackCat ransomware-as-a-service group that was behind the Change Healthcare cyberattack.
A report from HFMA and Eliciting Insig...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 31, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT AdvancedMD Bitsight Carequality CENTEGIX CentralReach Closed Loop Medicine David Stevens Diligent Eliciting Insights Experity FrontRunnerHC Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features Hello Heart HFMA Incite Strategic Pa Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 1st 2024
This study supports the proposed model that aging-related loss of colonic crypt epithelial cell AMP gene expression can promote increased relative abundances of Gn inflammaging-associated bacteria and gene expression markers of colonic inflammaging. These data may support new targets for aging-related therapies based on intestinal genes and microbiomes.
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A Skeptical View of the Role of Nuclear DNA Damage in Aging
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/03/a-skeptical-view-of-the-role-of-nuclear-dna-damage-in-aging/
It is evident and settled that stochastic nuclear DNA damag...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 31, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Norwood Procedure for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Transcript of video: Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome is a very severe form of congenital heart disease, in which, the left ventricle, aorta and mitral and aortic valves are hypoplastic and valves may be atretic as well. It has a very poor survival. Norwood procedure is the first stage palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome, and a second stage palliaton, bidirectional Glenn procedure is done, to separate the pulmonary and systemic circulations, and finally, a Fontan procedure, Fontan type of procedure, connecting inferior vena cava also to the pulmonary circulation, is done at a still later, as a third stage.
This i...
Source: Cardiophile MD - March 31, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
What happened after the Cath lab was activated for a chest pain patient with this ECG?
Sent by anonymous, written by Pendell MeyersI received a text with this image and no other information:What do you think?I simply texted back: " Definite posterior OMI. " The person I was texting knows implicitly based on our experience together that I mean " Definite posterior OMI, assuming the patient ' s clinical presentation is consistent with ACS. "The patient was a middle-aged female who had acute chest pain of approximately 6 hours duration. The pain was still active at the time of evaluation.Queen of Hearts:You can see that the Queen is most concerned with the ST depression in V2 and V3The physician activated ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 31, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Mild Tricuspid Regurgitation
Transcipt of video: Mild tricuspid regurgitation is often noted on echocadiogram reports and sometimes causes a little bit of worry and a lot of questions are asked on mild tricuspid regurgitation. What is this mild tricuspid regurgitation?
This is the schematic diagram of the heart in which you can see right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, left ventricle, aorta and pulmonary artery. And mild tricuspid regurgitation is just a small leak from the tricuspid valve. Normally, the tricuspid valve is expected to close fully and prevent backleak of blood from the right ventricle to right atrium, when the right ventricle co...
Source: Cardiophile MD - March 30, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Ebstein ’ s Anomaly of Tricuspid Valve
Transcript of the video: Ebstein’s Anomaly is one of the cyanotic congenital heart disease in which survival to adult life is common. In Ebstein’s anomaly, there is downward or apical displacement of posterior and septal tricuspid leaflets. The anterior leaflet is not displaced, but is elongated to meet the other leaflets, so that when it closes, a loud sound, tricuspid sound, is produced, which is called as the sail sound. Ebstein’s anomaly may be associated with atrial septal defect or a patent foramen ovale, in about 50% of cases. The cyanosis in Ebstein’s anomaly, is usually not due to pulmonary...
Source: Cardiophile MD - March 30, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Determination of Electrical Axis in ECG
Transcript of the video: When we talk about the electrical axis in the ECG, we usually mean the mean QRS axis. Even though it is possible to calculate the axis of each component of the QRS like the initial activation and later activation, we usually mean the mean QRS electrical axis. And, electrical axis can be calculated for the P wave, PR segment, QRS complex, ST segment and T wave. All can be calculated separately. Modern ECG machines, with in-built computerized diagnostic algorithm, usually display a clock face in the print out, which will indicate the axis of P wave, QRS and T wave. Along with that, the measured axis ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - March 30, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Addressing mental health in the medical field
In the heart of a bustling hospital, where the relentless pace of saving lives never wanes, lies an unseen battle that rages quietly within the souls of those who care for us. Health care professionals, heralded as heroes, especially in the wake of a global pandemic, face an array of mental health challenges, often overlooked
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Addressing mental health in the medical field originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 29, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Niana Gill Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Surgical Treatment of Tetralogy of Fallot and Sequelae
Transcript of video: Tetralogy of Fallot is one of the commonest cyanotic congenital heart diseases. As the name implies, there are four defects. One is ventricular septal defect, second is overriding aorta, third is pulmonary stenosis, usually right ventricular outflow tract stenosis and associated right ventricular hypertrophy. Overriding aorta with ventricular septal defect causes right to left shunt and cyanosis so that in infancy, cyanotic spells may also be there and squatting is one of the important symptoms of tetralogy of Fallot. There are several surgical options for tetralogy of Fallot and also some sequelae for...
Source: Cardiophile MD - March 29, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
The Advantages, Challenges, and Costs of Healthcare at Home Services
Switching to fully remote operations during the pandemic was a rushed adventure into what was mostly uncharted territory. There were a lot of challenges and bugs to work out, but there were also plenty of advantages and unforeseen benefits. And it is thanks to those advantages and benefits that healthcare at home is continuing, even as there are still challenges to work on and in-person operations return. While our first big push into remote care was a leap into the unknown, this time we want to make sure that we are surveying the landscape to make this a safe, smart, and financially responsible decision.
So let’s ta...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 28, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Revenue Cycle Management Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Alaina Victoria Ash Wellness Brenden Hayden Carenet Health Carium Chris Darland David McCormick Source Type: blogs
Brugada Syndrome
Transcript of the video: Brugada Syndrome was described by Brugada brothers in 1992 as right bundle branch block pattern in anterior leads with ST segment elevation and syncope or sudden cardiac death and it was later in 1998, that the genetic basis of the disease was identified, with mutations in sodium channel. Later on, several other mutations have been attributed to cause the ECG pattern in Brugada syndrome.
I am always happy to see this ECG of Brugada syndrome sent to me by Professor Josep Brugada, in 2001, for the inaugural issue of the Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal, which I started in 2001. And, this r...
Source: Cardiophile MD - March 28, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Wide Complex Tachycardia -- VT, SVT, or A Fib with RVR? If SVT, is it AVNRT or AVRT?
A 69 y.o. male with pertinent past medical history including Atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, cardiomyopathy, Pulmonary Embolism, and hypertension presented to the Emergency Department via ambulance for respiratory distress and tachycardia. Per EMS report, patient believes he has been in atrial fibrillation for 5 days, since coming down with flu-like illness with rhinorrhea, productive cough, SOB. Patient is on rivaroxaben, carvedilol, and dofetilide (to suppress atrial fib -- rhythm control). He states that he maybe missed a dose or two during recent illness. On EMS arrival, patient ' s oxygen sat...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 28, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Interesting Epidemiological Results for Time Restricted Feeding
In this study, researchers investigated the potential long-term health impact of following an 8-hour time-restricted eating plan. They reviewed information about dietary patterns for participants in the annual 2003-2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) in comparison to data about people who died in the U.S., from 2003 through December 2019, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Death Index database.
The analysis found: (a) people who followed a pattern of eating all of their food across less than 8 hours per day had a 91% higher risk of death due to cardiovascular d...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 26, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
WebMD Health Corp. Acquires Healthwise, Incorporated ’ s Operating Assets, Building on Leadership in Member and Patient Engagement Solutions
Healthwise’s Current Operating Assets will become part of WebMD Ignite, Creating an Industry-Leading Healthcare Growth and Engagement Platform Serving 650+ Healthcare Organizations
WebMD Health Corp., an Internet Brands company and a leader in health information services for consumers, physicians and other healthcare professionals, today announced it has joined forces with Healthwise, Incorporated, the patient and member health education and engagement company, through the acquisition of Healthwise’s current operating assets.
Healthwise delivers a powerful offering of consumer health content to help healthcare ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 26, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Ann Bilyew Canaccord Genuity LLC Dr. Adam Husney Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Healthwise Internet Brands WebMD Health Corp. WebMD Ignite Source Type: blogs
