Clinical

This channel newsfeed includes clinical content on treating patients or the clinical implications in a variety of cardiac subspecialties and disease states. The channel includes news on cardiac surgery, interventional cardiologyheart failure, electrophysiologyhypertension, structural heart disease, use of pharmaceuticals, and COVID-19.   

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How much is too much? Older heart failure patients often go home on 10 or more prescriptions

Clinicians should consider the potential negative impact of prescribing so many medications at once, the study's authors noted. 

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Valve durability after 5 years: Sapien 3 TAVR outcomes comparable to SAVR

The Sapien 3 prosthesis continues to impress, though researchers must continue to monitor its performance as time goes on.

Alex Azar

HHS officially extends COVID-19 public health emergency again ahead of upcoming expiration date

This is the third such renewal and will prolong the PHE into January, Secretary Alex Azar said. 

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TAVR safe for low-risk patients with bicuspid aortic valve disease

More research on long-term outcomes is still needed before TAVR can be recommended for such patients across the board.

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2 new recalls announced for extended-release metformin due to contamination

More lots of extended-release metformin have been recalled due to high levels of NDMA, a contaminant associated with cancer.

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Hydroxychloroquine ‘not an effective treatment’ for COVID-19, leads to longer hospital stays

The study's authors explored data from more than 1,500 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine and more than 3,000 who received usual care. 

Calculating COVID Countermeasures at Scale

Calculating COVID Countermeasures at Scale

In response to the COVID pandemic, most hospitals have adopted a policy of curtailing elective clinical and surgical services while preserving urgent/semi-urgent and inpatient care in order to conserve personal protective equipment (PPE), and to reduce patient and personnel exposure to infection, while providing for surge capacity in the event of wider dissemination. 

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Why metoprolol should be the beta-blocker of choice for heart attack patients

While metoprolol was linked with limiting infarct size, two other beta-blockers—atenolol and propranolol—were not associated with such improvements.