Care Gaps for Women With Cardiogenic Shock Merit Action: SCAI
Female shock patients face delays in treatment and are less likely to receive approved interventions, says Suzanne Baron.
Female shock patients face delays in treatment and are less likely to receive approved interventions, says Suzanne Baron.
The inaugural generation of ICs urge humility, common sense, knowing your limits, and avoiding shortcuts.
The findings highlight the need to both ensure adherence to anticoagulation and control other risk factors.
Treatment should be stopped if nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, which can cause vision loss, is diagnosed.
The aim is to “activate these guidelines in a way that they become more actionable for clinicians,” Harlan Krumholz says.
The lack of effect shouldn’t detract from MINT, which showed a strong trend toward benefit with liberal blood transfusion.
Relying on iFR/FFR values from the LCx alone could mean many patients with left main disease miss out on revascularization.
This explains at least some of the racial/ethnic gaps in survival, researchers say. Harder to pinpoint is exactly why practices differ.
With new CVD treatments arriving each year, “there’s no reason why outcomes should be getting worse,” says Jason Wasfy.
Nearly two-thirds of patients reached < 70 mg/dL with the small interfering RNA therapy.