ECG Guru

JANUARY 30, 2025

In this 12-lead ECG there is a bradycardic rhythm, which is regular, heart rate about 45 bpm. The QRS complexes are narow. What is this rhythm called? There are no P waves present, and no flutter or fibrillation waves can be seen. There are 2 possibilities: 1. There is a sinus arrest with a junctional escape rhythm. The junctional rhythm either cannot conduct retrograde to the atria (therefore no inverted retrograde P wave can be seen) or the retrograde P wave is hidden in the QRS complex (atria

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 30, 2025

A limited mask mandate is returning to my state this week. In 2023, the Maryland Department of Health (DOH) adopted a standard for return to universal masking in healthcare facilities when hospitalizations with respiratory viruses (covid, influenza, or RSV) reach a level of 10 cases per 100,000 population. Maryland has a population of 6.3 million and about 10,000 licensed hospital beds, so that works out to about 6% of hospital beds.

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The Bottom Line

JANUARY 30, 2025

Antibiotic Treatment for 7 versus 14 Days in Patients with Bloodstream Infections BALANCE Investigators. NEJM 2024; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2404991 Clinical Question In hospitalised patients with bloodstream infections (BSI), is antibiotic treatment for 7 days, compared to treatment for 14 days, non-inferior with respect to mortality at 90 days?

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Science Based Medicine

JANUARY 30, 2025

Please recognize that you are now influencing the national public health policy and understand that being in authority is a very different job than simply questioning authority The post An Open Letter to Dr. Vinay Prasad first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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NRC Health

JANUARY 30, 2025

Ryan Hatt, Director of Customer Success at NRC Health, and Tom Kirby, Senior Director of Strategic Marketing and Intelligence at UPMC, discussed the importance of brand strength amid new competition from companies like Amazon and Dollar General during a special recording of SHSMDs Rapid Insights podcast. The post Building resilience in healthcare through brand strength appeared first on NRC Health.

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