In this study, aspirin was not required to maintain outcomes with a fully magnetically levitated LVAD in advanced heart failure, and exclusion of antithrombotic therapy was demonstrated to be safe and associated with a reduction in bleeding events. ja.ma/3QSxnpb #AHA23

What to do if you want to do lumbar puncture (LP) but the patient is taking antiplatelet or anticoagulant? Here's a guide on periprocedural antithrombotic management for LP doi.org/10.1136/practn…

In this secondary analysis of MIND USA including 566 patients with delirium neither haloperidol nor ziprasidone significantly increased QTc intervals compared with placebo in patients with QTc<550. No study drug–related fatal cardiac arrhythmias occurred. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

🫀How crucial is #anticoagulation control in patients with mechanical heart #valve? 671 pts with MHV treated with #warfarin: 📌~15% with #TTR<40% 🚨every 10% lower TTR: ~30%⬆️#thrombosis, #bleeding and death 👉thieme-connect.de/products/ejour… #cardiotwitter #VHD #ValvularHeartDisease

Modified 4Ts scoring system in patients on mechanical circulatory support which may allow for more accurate screening helping identify patients at risk for developing HIT, with prompt treatment 🖇️ bit.ly/49zYR9p With editorial on MCS & heparin 🖇️ bit.ly/3SAVmZx

Bivalirudin ecarin chromogenic assays could be useful in these cases, particularly if concomitant thrombosis is present rb.gy/9mh9w8

Cardiac Surgery Mayo Clinic is honored to be ranked No.1 in Newsweek's 'World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2024'! bit.ly/3IgpdBZ

🫀#TransMedics Organ Care System a remarkable advancement in heart #transplantation. It maintains the donor heart at physiological conditions, allow for real-time assessment, extend permissible out-of-body time, enable use of extended-criteria, DCD donors  jcvaonline.com/article/S1053-…

Google Scholar has been flooded with research papers containing AI-generated text. Look up phrases like "An an AI langauge model," "I don't have access to real-time data," "As of my last knowledge update"... and you will see hundreds of papers with text generated by ChatGPT.

In our latest Review, Behnood Bikdeli and colleagues discuss the challenges of optimizing antithrombotic therapy in patients with coexisting #cardiovascular and #gastrointestinal disease: rdcu.be/dBUlc

Full trial finally out! Can’t wait to dig into this: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Logistic Regression clearly explained 👇🏻

Can’t wrap your head around statistical terms like 'skewness' or 'variance'? Here is a min-course on 24 statistics terms & what they mean:⬇️ Credit: Matt Dancho