Almost two in five physicians suffered moral distress in the two weeks leading up to their being asked about it by researchers. That was a markedly larger slice than the team observed in the general U.S. working population. 

The first FDA-approved pacing lead specifically developed for LBBAP is now being implanted throughout the United States. 

The Society of Interventional Radiology and others are calling for updated safety standards that reach beyond patients and take into account the occupational hazards faced during fluoroscopy. 

Several U.S. medical societies have collaborated on a new report advocating for better safety standards in cardiac catheterization labs. As one cardiologist described it, clinicians have shifted from "accepting risk" to "expecting better."

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