As the chair of the Heart & Lung patient organization in Sweden, I organize monthly meetings with patients and provide lectures with information about their diseases. A year ago I was at a conference called EuroHeartCare (Conference for Cardiovascular Nurses and Allied Professionals) and at that conference a physiotherapist asked me how I know what … Read more
The 2018 International Stroke Conference was headlined by the practice-changing results of DEFUSE 3 and related acute stroke care guideline updates. Having returned to our institutions, neurologists are parsing the updated 2018 acute ischemic stroke guidelines1 and wondering how best to operationalize the latest data. Overshadowed by updated guidelines regarding the extended window and … Read more
Many of my fellow bloggers here at AHA Early Career Voice are clinicians, and we’re all busy, and we all see the value in research. I wanted this post to speak to everyone who feels they’re spinning the plates of patient care, research, personal life, and having something to show for it all (besides broken … Read more
I have come to look forward to the annual International Stroke Conference each year. Due to the largess of my mentors and support of my residency program, I have had the good fortune of attending the conference each year since my third year of residency. As a third-year resident, I had decided to pursue fellowship … Read more
I have run into zealous naysayers from both camps. From a clinical researcher: “Human trials are the ultimate, difficult to run, very different from animal studies which may have no clinical relevance.” From a bench scientist: “Epidemiologic studies are trash in, trash out. Well designed animal studies are real science that will advance health.” … Read more
Writing from the 2018 International Stroke Conference, it is difficult to report on anything other than the game-changing results of DEFUSE 3. After years of clinical suspicion that endovascular therapy works, definitive evidence establishing the role of endovascular therapy in acute stroke care was first presented at the International Stroke Conference in 2015. Since then, … Read more
2017 gave us numerous dramatic advances in stroke neurology. We were treated to compelling data regarding the favorability of patent foramen ovale closure in well-selected individuals with cryptogenic stroke.1,2,3 Endovascular therapy matured with the extension of the treatment time window.4 We even saw promising rehabilitation data regarding surgical nerve transfer for chronic spastic arm paralysis.5 … Read more
During the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, there were great sessions. It was really a struggle to make an overview of all the nurses and allied professional sessions in a short blog; they were just all very interesting and informative. But I summarized the topics that were for me the most interesting during the Sessions. … Read more
From clinical science supported by data to data science supported by clinicians We live in an era of a tremendous amount of information. Scientific research is particularly well suited by the possibilities offered by analyzing large sets of data. In the past, data has been locked up in individual data bases and were not openly … Read more
American Heart Association Scientific Sessions always been inclusive of all cardiology specialties. Despite this breadth of science, each subspecialty in cardiology get enough depth to improve patient’s outcome. Trials of interventional nature had big presence at the Scientific Sessions 2017. The PRESERVE trial was one of the landmark studies presented at the sessions. The study … Read more