4 months! Incredible

Cannot retweet enough. Focused pressure required to overcome arterial pressure! Don’t spread it out with some stupid gauze

If we all just got our pH below 5.5 we’d be just fine… hate that the government keeps suppressing any cure!

#Statistics thought of the day: For comparing two heterogeneous groups, risk difference (absolute risk reduction) is not a number. It is a function. fharrell.com/post/rdist/ Vanderbilt Department of Biostatistics Edge for Scholars #bbrcourse

Assoc4AcademicSurgery Amir A. Ghaferi @lubitz_carrie Fabian Johnston, M.D., M.H.S Hari Nathan, MD, PhD Callisia Clarke MD I don’t envy the meeting and organization leadership having to make these real hard decisions. Before you criticize, walk a mile in their shoes. #ASC2022

For the first time ever in a prospective study, septal myectomy has demonstrated improvements in quality of life and functional capacity in people with symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Milind Desai MD MBA @TallRoundsTM consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/study-confirms…

Story we’ve seen 20 times. AI + clinical risk score outperforms clinical alone, but not by much. We didn’t use the clinical risk scores. Will we use this? Finding valuable uses for algorithmic support and how to implement it is a bigger gap than AI itself.

A very discerning predatory journal

A+ thread/reminder. Easy to forget in stressful situation and ends up wasting a lot of time

Ciprofloxacin accelerates aortic enlargement and promotes dissection and rupture in Marfan mice. Read the full article in JTCVS by LeMaire, Shen, et al: doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcv… #JTCVS #CardioTwitter #ThoracicSurgery #cvsurg AATS CTSurgSocMedNetwork

What’s the worst bureaucracy you’ve dealt with, and why is it the Texas Medical Board?

Genius. Probably works for “medical twitter” as well

🎯You can have LVH due to HTN. 🎯You can have LVH not due to HTN. 🎯You can have shock with a normal BP. 🎯You can have a low BP w/o shock. 🎯You can have an occluded coronary artery w/o ST elevation 🎯You can have ST elevation without an occluded coronary artery.

“Yea, I have a thyroidectomy consult but their anatomy is a little different…”

How to not manage epistaxis

Looking forward to #AATS2022! Come join me on Monday at 7:30AM to hear about our group’s work (Led by Ravi Ghanta) using EMR data and machine learning to dynamically predict acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery.

Looking forward to hearing initial results for Stage I/II EXACT trial (multiple isoform AdVEGF for refractory angina) at #AATS Exciting to see this go from animal validation studies to clinical trial Todd Rosengart, MD

All alone with Turner’s masterpieces at #AATS22 Presidents Reception ⁦Museum of Fine Arts, Boston⁩ Maybe this cardiac surgery thing will be worth it after all

Love this quote by Andrew Vickers ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Excited to match UAB Surgery for fellowship in Cardiac Surgery. Ready to get to work!