Video and a readable digest of a talk in a Harvard meeting, especially interesting in its scepticism on prevention.
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Critical Care
January 2, 2018
A sobering editorial, read last May at the AATS, that discusses at length the ethics of ventricular assist as a super expensive therapy seen from the principle of fairness.
January 1, 2018
Incredible story about how American Heart Association President Dr John Warner suffered a cardiac arrest after his presidential address and was subsequently saved by two bystanders. This story emphasizes the fortune of being in the right place at the right time, but more importantly, the public value of knowing CPR.
December 25, 2017
This review article explores the association between postoperative mediastinal blood and atrial fibrillation.
December 21, 2017
Interesting to read the mortality and renal morbidity of PCI after serious MI. The choice of dual primary outcome may have been an afterhought....
December 16, 2017
The authors demonstrate that, even when we rationally understand which of two choices is more likely to pay off, up to half of us will rely on gut feelings instead.
November 29, 2017
An interesting dilemma posed by a tattoo providing advanced care directives.
November 18, 2017
This is a lecture about the treatment of massive pulmonary embolus.
November 16, 2017
The incoming issue of the Journal comes with an interesting group of papers revolving around a provocative topic: work from Seattle on the absence of predictive value of standard pulmonary function tests in LVAD surgery. Vivek Rao takes the opportunity to present his thoughts in this brief editorial, the important central message of which cannot be
November 15, 2017
This interesting article outlines language-related aspects of gender bias and provides some suggestions for mitigation.