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Heart Failure Pharmacology with Dr. Regan Wade

Louisville Lectures

Wade evaluates literature related to new therapies and indications for medications in patients with heart failure. Dr. Wade’s clinical practice interests are in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Anticoagulation, Transitions of Care, and Teaching and Precepting.

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Digital platform shows complexity of how patients recover after surgery

Medical Xpress

Measuring the patient's perspective of recovery after cardiac surgery is challenging. During the initial recovery phase, clinicians struggle to collect information about sleep patterns, mental health, and other symptoms from their patients.

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Migraine headaches: diagnostic and treatment tips

Common Sense Family Doctor

A patient with a history of headaches is brought by ambulance to the emergency department for the abrupt onset of weakness and decreased sensation in their left arm and leg. A code stroke is called. Are these symptoms of an acute stroke or a stroke mimic , such as a hemiplegic migraine ?

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Do sexual orientation and gender identity affect your stroke risk?

Medical Xpress

Researchers from UC San Francisco and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) reviewed the medical records of 26 stroke patients who identified as sexual and gender minorities and compared them with 78 age-matched stroke patients who were not sexual and gender minorities. 18, 2023.

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

But if ACE units are so great, why do so few hospitals have them? Which patients are eligible to go to an ACE unit? Kellie Flood’s paper in JAMA IM showing that not only ACE units deliver better care, but also help with the hospitals bottom line. What are the benefits of an ACE unit? Transcript. This is Eric Widera. Alex: Yeah.

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Growing together: How Sound creates a culture of leadership

Sound Physicians

Great patient care starts with great clinician leadership. I am often asked about how Sound builds the next generation of clinical leaders. The expertise and thoughtfulness that our leaders bring to our patients, teams, and, most importantly, our hospital partners is not something that just happens.

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Checklist prompters support ICU rounds

Medical Xpress

Rounding checklists can help hospital care teams improve patient outcomes, and new research points to the potential for patient-specific checklists as a valid way to effectively translate the latest evidence into clinical practice.