Sal’s Stars of the Week: Jacqueline Tolentino
(Introduced by Sara Unrau)
I’d like to recognize Jacqueline Tolentino as Sals Star of the Week. Jacqueline is one of our CRNs in ICCS, who works mostly nights. She is essential to our team in keeping the unit organized and running smoothly. She is detail-oriented and keeps our night attendings up to date with patient changes. She is an expert in managing our cardiac surgery patients overnight. A recent example of this, is when she was a part of managing cardiac advanced life support (CALS) on a bleeding patient. She coached and supported her team and the physician through CALS, including coaching the steps for opening the patients sternal incision. Dr. Funk expressed his appreciation for her calm demeanor and keeping the team focused in this situation and making sure all the key team members were notified, including the cardiac surgeon. A key team member, please join me in congratulating Jacqueline Tolentino as Sals Star of the Week.
Good News
Our annual Heart Attack Day will be held Friday, April 14 from 08:15 to 16:30.
This is an accredited conference held in collaboration with CPD – Medicine, Office of Continuing Competency and Assessment
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences.
Please consider joining us. Please see the link for further information and registration.
Featured in the Recent WRHA Healthcare Connections Newsletter: Celebrating Women in Healthcare
Christina Kuttnig
ACCU, St. Boniface Hospital
“Chris is a wonderful mentor, manager, friend and organizer. She is supportive everyday to her staff, colleagues and all those she comes into contact with. She is fair, honest, reliable, knowledgeable, smart, kind, fun and approachable. She inspires others to do their best work by being an active listener. She is compassionate, caring and will always lend a hand in any way she can. Chris goes above and beyond as a manager by being available for staff, working extra hours and supporting other new managers. She gives to the community of cardiac sciences by leading the Canadian Council of Cardiovascular Nurses both provincially and as president elect of the board of directors for Canada.
From my own experience she has encouraged me to grow as an educator, supported me to become a manager and is always available to answer questions or just to listen. Please help me to honor Chris as Chris is a woman we should celebrate!!!“
Nominated by: Belinda Landry
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.
