Podcast 817: MI Risk during Elections

Podcast 817: MI Risk during Elections

Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD

Educational Pearls:

  • 2020 retrospective study with dat from two California hospitals compared rates of cardiovascular admissions in a five day period two weeks before and the five days after the presidential election
  • Hospitalization rate for acute cardiovascular disease increased by 17% and rate of acute myocardial infarction increased by 42%
    • Highest rates occurred in demographic of white males older than 75 years old
  • No significant difference between groups in rates of stroke and heart failure

References

Mefford MT, Rana JS, Reynolds K, et al. Association of the 2020 US Presidential Election With Hospitalizations for Acute Cardiovascular Conditions. JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(4):e228031. Published 2022 Apr 1. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.8031

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Podcast 696: ST Elevation and Differential Diagnoses

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Educational Pearls: Albert Einstein had chronic abdominal pain as a middle-aged man Dr. Rudolph Nissen, founder of the Nissen fundoplication, performed exploratory surgery for this pain and found an ...

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Podcast 694: Complete Heart Block

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Contributor: Nick Hatch, MD Educational Pearls: Complete heart block or 3rd degree atrioventricular (AV) block is diagnosed via EKG and occurs when electrical signals from the sinoatrial (SA) node ar...

19 Juli 20214min

Podcast 693: Humerus Fractures

Podcast 693: Humerus Fractures

Contributor: Nick Tsipis, MD Educational Pearls: Humerus fractures can be characterized as proximal, midshaft, and distal fractures Proximal humerus fracture is the second-most common fracture in eld...

14 Juli 20217min

Podcast 692: Pelvic Fractures

Podcast 692: Pelvic Fractures

Contributor: Peter Bakes, MD Educational Pearls: Pelvis is comprised of the iliac, ischium, and sacrum Three mechanisms for pelvic fractures by Young-Burgess Classification Anterior-posterior compr...

13 Juli 20214min

Podcast 691: TXA in Head Bleeds

Podcast 691: TXA in Head Bleeds

Contributor: Ricky Dhaliwal, MD Educational Pearls: CRASH 3 Trial looked at over 12,000 patients with traumatic intracranial bleeds, randomizing patients to a therapy with TXA or standard of care wit...

12 Juli 20212min

Podcast 690: Rectal Oxygen. Nice,

Podcast 690: Rectal Oxygen. Nice,

Contributor: Chris Holmes, MD Educational Pearls: In the 1700s, boxes lined the River Thames to pump smoke up the rectum to resuscitate people who had been found unconscious in the river Sea cucumber...

7 Juli 20213min

Podcast 689: Peri-Intubation Hypotension

Podcast 689: Peri-Intubation Hypotension

Contributor: Ricky Dhaliwal, MD Educational Pearls: Hypotension in patients requiring intubation should be resuscitated as much as possible While intubating, the negative inspiratory pressure goes aw...

6 Juli 20214min

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