Sal’s Stars of the Week: Melyssa Correia
(Introduced by Christina Kuttnig)
I am pleased to introduce this week’s Sals Star of the week Melyssa Correia. Melyssa has been a valued member of ACCU since completing her CCNOP course in 2020. She has a wealth of knowledge, experience and skills from her previous clinical roles working family medicine at Seven Oaks and the CAU/IMCU/6AS at St. Boniface. She became a CRN in ACCU in July of 2022.
Melyssa is known within the unit as an approachable, kind, deeply caring and devoted nurse. Her colleagues notice she comes in early and leaves late. She is always helping on the floor, is available and patient with all questions. We all love her sense of humor and easy manner.
Just recently Melyssa was on a shift where a massive transfusion protocol had been called and was in progress. The unit had incredibly high acuity with our baseline of 3 doubles, so lean on resources and even though her relief arrived to take over, she stayed from her 12 hour day till 2230 to help out on the unit. She would not leave until the unit settled and she felt they were safe.
Most recently Melyssa, in the supervisor’s words “went above and beyond to assist with cardiology staffing challenges on nights Feb 14”. There was a transfer from ACCU to 6AS and Melyssa found they were going to be 3 short for the night 8. She worked with the 6A CRN to troubleshoot how to cover the unit. Melyssa volunteered herself to take on the role of charge on 6A and take a full patient assignment. She also touched base with ACCU throughout the night to ensure they were supported. As the overnight supervisor stated “Melyssa showed outstanding leadership and support for a struggling unit and I wanted to recognize that and show my appreciation.”
These are a few recent examples why I’m honored to congratulate Melyssa on being this week’s Sals Start of the Week.
Good News
Please welcome Volodymyr Primakhov, Clinical Assistant, to the Cardiac Sciences Program with a start date of March 3rd, 2023.
Volodymyr completed his MD at Dnipropetrovsk State Medical Academy in Dnipro, Ukraine in 2005. He then completed a residency in General Surgery at the same University from 2005 to 2010.
He was an Assistant Professor/General Surgeon at the Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy from 2010 to 2020.
Most recently he has been working as a Clinical Assistant in Orthopaedics at the Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg since September 2022.
He is very much looking forward to joining the Cardiac Sciences Program at St Boniface Hospital.
Heart Attack Day
This Week’s Faculty Publications
Charles Michael Pearman, David Lee, Brianna Davies, Habib Khan, Rafik Tadros, Julia Cadrin-Tourigny, Jason D Roberts, Shubhayan Sanatani, Christopher Simpson, Paul Angaran, Simon Hansom, Erkan Ilhan, Colette Seifer, Martin Green, Martin Gardner, Mario Talajic, Zachary Laksman, Jeff S Healey, Andrew D Krahn Incremental value of the signal-averaged ECG for diagnosing arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy Heart Rhythm. 2023 Feb;20(2):224-230. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2022.10.005. Epub 2022 Oct 14.
Spyridon Kostantinis, Bahadir Simsek, Judit Karacsonyi, Athanasios Rempakos, Khaldoon Alaswad, Michael Megaly, Oleg Krestyaninov, Dmitrii Khelimskii, Dimitrios Karmpaliotis, Farouc A Jaffer, Jaikirshan J Khatri, Paul Poommipanit, Mitul P Patel, Ehtisham Mahmud, Michael Koutouzis Ioannis Tsiafoutis, Sevket Gorgulu, Basem Elbarouni, William Nicholson, Wissam Jaber, Stephane Rinfret, Nidal Abi Rafeh, Omer Goktekin, Ahmed M ElGuindy, Salman S Allana, Bavana V Rangan, Yader Sandoval, M Nicholas Burke, Emmanouil S Brilakis Impact of proximal cap ambiguity on the procedural techniques and outcomes of chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention: Insights from the PROGRESS-CTO Registry Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2023 Feb 5. doi: 10.1002/ccd.30580. Online ahead of print.
Nima Moghaddam, Nathaniel M Hawkins, Robert McKelvie, Stephanie Poon, Sebastien Xavier Joncas, John MacFadyen, George Honos, Jia Wang, Carlos Rojas-Fernandez, Melanie Kok, Vishaldeep Sidhu, Shelley Zieroth, Sean A Virani Patient Eligibility for Established and Novel Guideline-Directed Medical Therapies After Acute Heart Failure Hospitalization JACC Heart Fail. 2023 Jan 11;S2213-1779(22)00638-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2022.10.013. Online ahead of print.
Bahadir Simsek, Spyridon Kostantinis, Judit Karacsonyi, Abdul Hakeem, Abhiram Prasad, Anand Prasad, Anna E Bortnick, Basem Elbarouni, Hani Jneid, J Dawn Abbott, Lorenzo Azzalini, Louis P Kohl, Mario Gössl, Rajan A G Patel, Salman Allana, Tamim M Nazif, Usman Baber, Olga C Mastrodemos, Tarek Chami, Madeline Mahowald, Athanasios Rempakos, Bavana V Rangan, Yader Sandoval, Emmanouil S Brilakis Educational Experience of Interventional Cardiology Fellows in the United States and Canada JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2023 Feb 13;16(3):247-257. doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2022.11.034.
Robert J Mentz, Jonathan H Ward, Adrian F Hernandez, Serge LePage, David A Morrow, Samiha Sarwat, Kavita Sharma, Scott D Solomon, Randall C Starling, Eric J Velazquez, Kristin Williamson, Shelley Zieroth, Eugene Braunwald Rationale, Design and Baseline Characteristics of the PARAGLIDE-HF Trial: Sacubitril/valsartan versus Valsartan in HFmrEF and HFpEF with a Worsening Heart Failure Event J Card Fail. 2023 Feb 14;S1071-9164(23)00040-4. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2023.02.001. Online ahead of print.
Evan J Wiens, Robin Ducas A primer on simple congenital cardiac shunt lesions: A primer on cardiac shunts in adults Curr Probl Cardiol. 2023 Feb 9;101636. doi: 10.1016/j.cpcardiol.2023.101636. Online ahead of print.
