This review article explores the association between postoperative mediastinal blood and atrial fibrillation.
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Critical Care
December 25, 2017
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.
October 27, 2017
A measured succinct reflection on MagLev and older ventricular assist devices, on the occasion of a relevant 'expert opinion' paper on the topic.
October 18, 2017
The authors report the non-intuitive finding that blood from female donors who had ever been pregnant was associated with increased mortality among male recipients (HR 1.13). If validated by other studies, might this substantially complicate matching donated blood with appropriate recipients? Clearly the underlying mechanism will be interesting to
October 18, 2017
The author decries what he sees as the corporatization of airline pilots, with their accompanying loss of autonomy and prestige. He speculates on whether a similar future is ahead for physicians, but does not provide specific suggestions on how to avoid this from occurring.