ICU doc here.
This is a cardiac arrest not a heart attack and this is terrible resuscitation. Not managing the airway. Trying - unsuccessfully - for a hand IV. The LUCAS device looks malpositioned and its use is associated with worse neurological outcomes than manual CPR.
A Foodpanda rider named Basharat Ali was passing through Bahria Town Phase 7, Rawalpindi late at night when he heard a girl crying. He found two armed men attempting to assault her. Despite the danger, he stopped and shouted for help, drawing attention from nearby people. The girl was rescued, and both attackers were arrested by the police.
Dr. Howard Tucker has been awarded the record title for the oldest doctor ever after working until the age of 103.
He was continuing to work as a neurologist until just two months before his passing on 22 December 2025.
AHFTC training covers an enormous clinical landscape — MCS, transplant, shock, palliative care, etc. — often in a single fellowship year.
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The fact that a 68 yo woman has had multiple PCIs over the last decade with pretty much the entirety of her coronary system stented tells me how badly the system has let patients down.
Whomever did this needs to take a long hard look at themselves in the mirror- and ask themselves whether they were doing the best for the patient or their pocket.
We need to do better. I very much doubt she wasn't a surgical candidate in her 50s / 60s
Tirzepatide/Retatrutide shots, Rosuvastatin Tadka, Aspirin ki Sauf, Empagliflozin flavored ice cream and LIMA to LAD to try later at home! Desi Ma ka pyaar!
🧵So OPTIMAL just dropped at ACC.26, and I’ll be honest — it’s going to make a lot of interventionalists very UNCOMFORTABLE.
806 patients 😮. Unprotected left main PCI. Randomized to IVUS vs angiography guidance.
Result? No difference.🤯
Among patients with supraventricular tachycardia, use of a handheld Valsalva assist device resulted in greater rates of sinus rhythm restoration compared with the standard Valsalva maneuver (63% vs 29% within 1 minute after up to two attempts). https://t.co/nzVVdHNO7a
Clopidogrel is superior to aspirin for cardiac outcomes beyond 1-year up to 5-years. Results from the STOPDAPT-2 ACS and STOPDAPT-2 Total Cohort. Should it be a lifelong maintenance therapy? @HirotWatanabeMD@MNatsuaki@KoYamamoto7 https://t.co/SkorxNqlrS
I know. CLOSURE-AF is everywhere. The trial was negative. No dispute here. But I disagree with stating that "LAAC doesn't work". Here's what I think of the data.
Swiss-cheese multiple muscular ventricular septal defects are often very challenging to close. Trans-ventricular approach allows simple and effective closure of multiple muscular VSDs.