MITRAL RUMBLES

 

 

By Dr. Ross Feldman,
Medical Lead,
Cardiac Sciences Manitoba

April 06, 2022

Announcements

Sals Star of the Week:  Denarah Bayrak (introduced by Linda McLean)

It is my pleasure to introduce Denarah Bayrak, NICT Unit Clerk as this week’s Sal’s Star!

Denarah is a recent graduate from the Red River Unit Clerk Program in January 2021 where she was initially hired just after her practicum on CR4. Denarah came to our rescue last summer when we had a vacancy for a unit clerk where she blended her hours from CR4 and our needs in CR1 to assist in both areas. She stepped up again when we were left without our 2 clerks and took over in a Full-Time position to run the NICT ship single handedly.

Denarah has brought fresh innovative ideas for implementation and streamlined processes effectively. She undertakes any task with proficiency.  When presented with implementing change Denarah jumps right in and takes it on with a positive can – do attitude. Her organizational attributes are in fine form as Denarah has taken on organizing our Holter reading structure to ensure results are processed efficiently and no balls are dropped on our end. She has updated the Stress Lab reception area and manages to run back and forth between 2 buildings to maintain services across our spectrum. As the face and voice that first greets our patients and staff we could not wish for a more pleasant personality to set first impressions. Denarah fills her time and heart with partner Sam, 2-year-old son Matteo and dogs Sawyer, Findley and Jet. She has filled our hearts with gratitude that she chose to come on board full time with our crew and be our clerical support lifesaver!

Cheers to Denarah, Sal’s Star of the Week for April 1st!!

This Week’s Faculty Publications

Heather Rossong, Summer Debreuil, Weiang Yan, Brett M Hiebert, Rohit K Singal, Rakesh C Arora, Michael H Yamashita  Long-term survival and quality of life after extracorporeal membrane oxygenation  J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2022 Feb 18;S0022-5223(22)00204-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2021.10.077. Online ahead of print.

Kei Sato, Nicole White, Jonathon P Fanning, Nchafatso Obonyo, Michael H Yamashita, Vinesh Appadurai, Anna Ciullo, Meryta May, Elliott T Worku, Leticia Helms, Shinichiro Ohshimo, Dafsah A Juzar, Jacky Y Suen, Gianluigi Li Bassi, John F Fraser, Rakesh C Arora, COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium Investigators Impact of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibition on mortality in critically ill COVID-19 patients with pre-existing hypertension: a prospective cohort study  BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2022 Mar 23;22(1):123. doi: 10.1186/s12872-022-02565-1.

Amy A Kirkham, Edith Pituskin, Richard B Thompson, John R Mackey, Sheri L Koshman, Davinder Jassal, Marshall Pitz, Mark J Haykowsky, Joseph J Pagano, Kelvin Chow, Albert K Tsui, Justin A Ezekowitz, Gavin Y Oudit, D Ian Paterson Cardiac and cardiometabolic phenotyping of trastuzumab-mediated cardiotoxicity: a secondary analysis of the MANTICORE trial  Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Pharmacother. 2022 Feb 16;8(2):130-139. doi: 10.1093/ehjcvp/pvab016.

Rachel Eikelboom, Rizwan A Manji  Commentary: Reducing unnecessary transfusions in cardiac surgery: A TEG talk J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2022 Mar 10;S0022-5223(22)00246-X. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2022.03.005. Online ahead of print.

Ross