Persistent opioid use (>90 days postoperatively) in this Medicare database study identified modifiable factors, including prescription size and preoperative prescription refills, among other features, that could be targeted in order to reduce opioid dependency.
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Cardiac
October 24, 2019
The authors review the growing suspicion that fluoroquinolone antibiotic (FQ) use may be related to the occurrence of thoracic aortic aneurysms and acute aortic dissection. The proposed mechanism is through an increase in matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), which degrade collagen, a precursor to aortic injury.
October 24, 2019
Identification of Anonymous MRI Research Participants with Face-Recognition Software: The authors demonstrated the ability to use facial recognition software to identify individuals undergoing head MR, highlighting the risk of loss of anonymity when seemingly de-identified data are available to others.
October 23, 2019
This video demonstrates a patch augmentation of the anterior leaflet of the tricuspid valve.
October 22, 2019
Abdelhadi Ismail and his co-authors of the Southampton University Hospitals Trust in the United Kingdom presents a discussion on cardiac biochemistry from a clinical perspective.
October 20, 2019
In this video, the authors demonstrate off-pump coronary artery bypass with the bilateral internal thoracic artery for left main disease.
October 19, 2019
Quite interesting to see that the incidence of revascularisation after multivessel PCA (the additional element on the second co-primary outcome) appears to have occured in more than 1% of the patients within three years...
October 18, 2019
Using data from the FREEDOM (Future Revascularizaiton Evaluation in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: Optimal Management of Multivessel Disease) trial, the authors developed an 8 variable model that predicts individual risk of major acute cardiovascular events in diabetic patients with multivessel disease.
October 17, 2019
Filmed at the STS Structural Heart Symposium in Chicago, Illinois, David Fullerton moderates a discussion on surgical training for transcatheter aortic valve replacement.
October 17, 2019
This review offers data suggesting that intermediate-term outcomes for saphenous vein grafting are similar to those for radial artery grafts used for CABG.