For example, if £50,000 was available for outcome data collection and the cost of a detailed assessment of outcome by a trained nurse or doctor was £50 per patient, it would be possible to assess outcomes on 1000 participants. If the cost of sending a validated outcome questionnaire ...
About 25% of our patients go to the ICU after a FlowTriever intervention. This is not due to a complication or poor device performance. Rather, these are patients who had syncopal episodes, hypotension, or a vasoconstrictor requirement or who just did not improve how one woul...
Moreover, conversion to conventional CABG can take place immediately if needed [40]. Hospital stay is also estimated to be shorter in simultaneous HCR approach. However, bleeding concerns due to dual anti-platelet therapy and incomplete heparin reversal, as well as acute stent thrombosis possibility...
Some clinicians may take the view that patient benefits can be achieved by assessing coronary function (40). A simpler, pragmatic approach may be to administer a trial of medical therapy as a matter of routine in all symptomatic patients and assess their responses over time, representing a trial...
My very last clinical experience, I had the “good” fortune of getting assigned to a clinical instructor who was a very powerful person in the hospital, a director of a department who thought she would try her hand at being a clinical instructor. I still am unsure of the how or why,...
Why don’t we allow high-school graduates who want to “help people” take a 2month correspondence class. If you pass with a 2.0, you can be a doctor. This would surely lower costs since the start-up costs for physicians would be minimal. I am not really advocating this approach, but...
Firstly, due to the lack of long-term patient observation, it was not possible to assess long-term prognosis in AF patients treated with an individual antithrombotic strategy. Secondly, there were hospitalized AF patients examined where only some of them had a first-time diagnosed AF, and only...