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Cardiology MCQ Test 3
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Source: Cardiophile MD - October 20, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs

Valuing Value-Based Payment
By ANISH KOKA, MD The idea that payment should be linked to the value lies at the heart of most of the transactions we participate in on a daily basis. Yet, value based payment in healthcare has seemingly run into very rocky waters as of late.  It is at this precarious time that stakeholders representing large employers and other purchasers of health care’ took to the Harvard Business Review to write in defense of value based payment reform.  The authors pepper their article with cherry picked ‘successes’ of the value movement and urge the country to forge ahead on the current path.  The picture that c...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 16, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: anish_koka Tags: Uncategorized Value-Based Payment Source Type: blogs

Medtronic ’s HeartWare HVAD Heart Pump Approved for Rest of Life Use
Medtronic‘s HeartWare HVAD system, a left ventricular assist device, has been approved by the FDA as a “destination therapy” for those with advanced heart failure that cannot receive a transplanted heart. The HeartWare HVAD heart pu...
Source: Medgadget - September 29, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Critical Care Source Type: blogs

Abiomed ’s Impella RP First Percutaneous Heart Pump Indicated for Right Heart Failure
Abiomed won FDA approval for its Impella RP heart pump, the first percutaneous temporary ventricular support device indicated for right heart failure. The device moves blood from the inferior vena cava into the pulmonary artery, doing the work of th...
Source: Medgadget - September 25, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Source Type: blogs

The Cost of Public Reporting
ANISH KOKA MD In an age where big data is king and doctors are urged to treat populations, the journey of one man still has much to tell us. This is a tale of a man named Joe. Joseph Carrigan was a bear of a man – though his wife would say he was more teddy than bear.  He loved guitar playing,  and camp horror movies.  Those who knew him well said he had a kind heart, a quick wit and loved cats. I knew none of these things when I met Joe in the Emergency Department on a Sunday afternoon.  I had been called because of an abnormal electrocardiogram – the ER team was worried he could be having a heart attack. ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 18, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: anish_koka Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

The High Cost of Public Reporting
ANISH KOKA MD In an age where big data is king and doctors are urged to treat populations, the journey of one man still has much to tell us. This is a tale of a man named Joe. Joseph Carrigan was a bear of a man – though his wife would say he was more teddy than bear.  He loved guitar playing,  and camp horror movies.  Those who knew him well said he had a kind heart, a quick wit and loved cats. I knew none of these things when I met Joe in the Emergency Department on a Sunday afternoon.  I had been called because of an abnormal electrocardiogram – the ER team was worried he could be having a heart attack. ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 18, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: anish_koka Tags: Uncategorized Cardiac surgery High-risk Quality Reporting Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 18th 2017
In this study, researchers put some numbers to the correlation, and improve on previous attempts to rule out wealth and other effects as significant contributing causes. A study finds that a Chinese policy is unintentionally causing people in northern China to live 3.1 years less than people in the south, due to air pollution concentrations that are 46 percent higher. These findings imply that every additional 10 micrograms per cubic meter of particulate matter pollution reduces life expectancy by 0.6 years. The elevated mortality is entirely due to an increase in cardiorespiratory deaths, indicating that air poll...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 17, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Deans Need Progressive Responsibility Too
Dr. Antman and her family at the 2016 American Heart Association Boston Heart & Stroke Gala Editor’s Note: This blog post complements the recently published study “The Decanal Divide: Women in Decanal Roles at U.S. Medical Schools.” Read the full study on academicmedicine.org. By: Karen Antman, MD Dr. Antman is dean, Boston University School of Medicine, provost, Boston University Medical Campus, and chair, AAMC Council of Deans Why aren’t more medical school deans women? Medical school faculty don’t normally wake up thinking, “I want to be dean.” How then does one end up there? I was asked to...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 12, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective AAMC Council of Deans Boston University Medical Campus Boston University School of Medicine gender leadership research women Source Type: blogs

Abbott ’s Latest Heart Pump FDA Approved
Abbott received FDA approval for its HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device (LVAD), a pump designed to augment cardiac output in patients with severe heart failure that are waiting for their heart to recover or that are in line for a transplant. ...
Source: Medgadget - August 29, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 10th 2017
This article covers some of the advances of recent years in understanding the effects of varied forms of calorie restriction in humans. Efforts to quantify the results and find a good 80/20 point, at which most of the effects of longer and more stringent reductions in calorie intake are still evident, have resulted in practical outcomes. A number of quite interesting discoveries have been made along the way, such as the ability of longer fasting periods to clear out and replace damaged immune cells to some degree. The second phase of the Comprehensive Assessment of Long-term Effects of Reducing Intake of Energy (C...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 9, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Calon Cardio ’s MiniVAD Left Ventricluar Assist Device Set for 2018 Clinical Trials
Working with the University of Swansea, Calon Cardio, a Welsh firm, has created the first UK-developed Left Ventricluar Assist Device (LVAD). The MiniVAD is scheduled to begin a 50 patient clinical trial in late 2018, with a full clinical rollout pl...
Source: Medgadget - June 27, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tom Peach Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Source Type: blogs

Scientists Keep Bits of Hearts Alive Under High Speed Cameras to Study Arrhythmias
Detecting the source of errant electric signals in the heart that cause cardiac arrhythmias, as well as understanding what causes them, has been a notoriously difficult challenge for both physicians and researchers. This is because the heart is diffi...
Source: Medgadget - June 8, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Genetics Source Type: blogs

Bob Wachter ’ s 2017 Penn Med Commencement Address “ Go to Radiology ”
By ROBERT WACHTER, MD Dean Jameson, Trustees, Faculty, Family and Friends, and most of all, Graduates of the Class of 2017: Standing before you on this wonderful day, seeing all the proud parents and significant others, I can’t help but think about my father. My dad didn’t go to college; he joined the Air Force right after high school, then entered the family business, which manufactured women’s clothing. He did reasonably well, and my folks ended up moving to a New York City suburb, where I grew up. There were a lot of professionals in the neighborhood, but my dad admired the doctors the most. He was even a little e...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 17, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Penn Radiology Robert Wachter Speeches UCSF Source Type: blogs

Heart Sleeve Helps Heart Pump Blood: Interview with Harvard ’s Ellen Roche
Heart failure is a very common clinical condition, afflicting millions of patients worldwide, and its prevalence is expected to further increase in the near future. Unfortunately, there are limited treatment options for advanced heart failure and the...
Source: Medgadget - March 24, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Udi Nussinovitch Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Exclusive Source Type: blogs

Undoctored: Giving back control over individual health
The new Undoctored book is scheduled for release this coming May 9th, 2017, a book that shows how you can be freed from the bonds of a predatory, profit-seeking healthcare system.  Here’s a bit more from the book, now available in pre-release.   Undoctored: An excerpt Unquestionably, there are situations in which doctoring and the healthcare system are needed. If you are bleeding, injured, or struggling to breathe with pneumonia, some old-fashioned suturing, bone-setting, or antibiotics can still do the trick. Nobody around here is going to replace their own hip joint or treat a urinary tract infection with sal...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 12, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat-Free Lifestyle autoimmune diabetes gluten grains hypertension Inflammation metabolic undoctored Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs