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Dec 9, 2022 This Week in Cardiology Podc...

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Nudges, statins, AI, less-is-more in the ICU, myocarditis, exercise as medicine, and December in the hospital are the topics John Mandrola, MD, covers in this week's podcast.

This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only. To read a partial transcript or to comment, visit:

https://www.medscape.com/twic

I. Nudges and Statin Prescribing

EHR Alerts to Both Doc and Patient May Boost Statin Prescribing

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/984944

Effect of Nudges to Clinicians, Patients, or Both to Increase Statin Prescribing

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/article-abstract/2798971

Association of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program With Mortality Among Medicare Beneficiaries Hospitalized for Heart Failure, Acute Myocardial Infarction, and Pneumonia

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2719307

Lack of Efficacy of a Salience Nudge for Substituting Selection of Lower-Calorie for Higher-Calorie Milk in the Work Place https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4488787/

II. AI and Chest X-Ray

Single Chest X-Ray Could Predict 10-Year CVD Risk

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/984910

III. BOX Trial

Shorter Fever Prevention Duration Effective After Cardiac Arrest

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/984852

Duration of Device-Based Fever Prevention after Cardiac Arrest

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2212528

Oxygen Targets in Comatose Survivors of Cardiac Arrest

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2208686

Blood-Pressure Targets in Comatose Survivors of Cardiac Arrest

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2208687

Lower or Higher Oxygenation Targets for Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2032510

IV. Myocarditis

Mortality Higher in Myocarditis After Virus Than After COVID Vax

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/985045

Autopsy-based histopathological characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00392-022-02129-5#Tab2

Myopericarditis After COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination Among Adolescents and Young Adults

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2798866

Prognosis of Myocarditis Developing After mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination Compared With Viral Myocarditis

https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacc.2022.09.049

V. Exercise as Medicine

Just 8 Minutes of Exercise a Day Is All You Need

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/984684

Vigorous physical activity, incident heart disease, and cancer: how little is enough? https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehac572

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Medscape editor-in-chief Eric Topol, MD, and master storyteller and clinician Abraham Verghese, MD, on Medicine and the Machine

https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine

 

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https://www.medscape.com/author/bob-harrington

Questions or feedback, please contact news@medscape.net

John M Mandrola, MD

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