MITRAL RUMBLES

 

 

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

February 09, 2019

CSP News

• February is Heart Month. Shelley Zieroth and Olga Toleva well-represented the program in support of HSF on radio, TV and the Free Press this week. The link to Shelley’s interview is appended. https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/mobile/video?clipId=1605780.

• For a quick overview of my research program and apropos of this week’s Cardiology Grand Rounds updating progress in the management of hypertension you can tune into my CTV interview from last week https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1604506

Upcoming CSP events

• CSP is cosponsoring a daylong workshop “Let’s talk about drugs: when drug use and hospital care collide” Saturday February 23, 2019. The event is for MDs, NPs, CA/PAs related to the care of patients who inject drugs. Please click HERE for further info.

• Don’t forget this week’s Wear Red Event, Wednesday Feb 13. https://www.wearredcanada-mb.com/winnipeg-events.html

Publications by our Faculty this week

Slater M, Bielecki J, Alba AC, Abrahamyan L, Tomlinson G, Mak S, MacIver J, Zieroth S, Lee D, Wong W, Krahn M, Ross H, Rac VE. Comparative effectiveness of the different components of care provided in heart failure clinics-protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis. Syst Rev. 2019 Feb 2;8(1):40. doi: 10.1186/s13643-019-0953-4.

Wildes TS, Mickle AM, Ben Abdallah A, Maybrier HR, Oberhaus J, Budelier TP, Kronzer A, McKinnon SL, Park D, Torres BA, Graetz TJ, Emmert DA, Palanca BJ, Goswami S, Jordan K, Lin N, Fritz BA, Stevens TW, Jacobsohn E, Schmitt EM, Inouye SK, Stark S, Lenze EJ, Avidan MS; ENGAGES Research Group. Effect of Electroencephalography-Guided Anesthetic Administration on Postoperative Delirium Among Older Adults Undergoing Major Surgery: The ENGAGES Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2019 Feb 5;321(5):473-483. doi: 10.1001/jama.2018.22005.

Arcinas LA, McIntyre WF, Farag A, Kushneriuk D, Hiebert B, Seifer CM. Right ventricular pacing is associated with increased rates of appropriate implantable cardioverter defibrillator shocks. Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol. 2019 Feb 5:e12636. doi: 10.1111/anec.12636. [Epub ahead of print]

Koleini N, Nickel BE, Edel AL, Fandrich RR, Ravandi A, Kardami E. Oxidized phospholipids in Doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity. Chem Biol Interact. 2019 Jan 29. pii: S0009-2797(18)31603-X. doi: 10.1016/j.cbi.2019.01.032. [Epub ahead of print] Review.