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Highlights of the week ending 11-24-2019

By Manesh Patel, M.D. in Uncategorized on November 24, 2019.

CardioMEMs Program Launches at VA

The cardiology team at Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center launched their CardioMEMs program this week. This program, implemented by Rajesh Swaminathan, Paul Rosenberg, Tony Carnicelli, Sara Jensen, and Susan Roberts, aims to reduce hospital readmissions for veterans with congestive heart failure. Three patients underwent successful implantation of the CardioMEMs pressure monitor by Sunil Rao with help from fellows Tony Carnicelli, Jaidip Chakravarti, and Navid Nafissi. Congrats to the VA Cardiology Team – this will certainly be of big benefit to our veterans!

Joint Commission Site Visit Announced: Stroke

Joint Commission surveyors will be on site at Duke University Hospital on Dec. 2^nd and 3^rd to electively review our Comprehensive Stroke Program as part of our normal biennial review cycle. It is anticipated that the surveyor(s) will spend most of the time interviewing staff and providers that participate in the care of stroke patients in the ED, on Neuro units and in Radiology. They will evaluate care of patients that undergo carotid endarterectomy procedures. With current capacity restraints, stroke patients can be located throughout DUH; therefore, please be prepared for them to visit anywhere within Duke University Hospital.

Upcoming Opportunities/Save the Date:

Cardiology Grand Rounds

We will not hold Cardiology Grand Rounds this week due to the holiday. Happy Thanksgiving!

Upcoming Grand Rounds:

December 3: Zach Wegermann
December 10: (5 p.m.) Heart Center Grand Rounds on CTEPH
December 17: (5 p.m.) Faculty Staff Meeting
December 24: No Grand Rounds. Happy Holidays!
December 31: No Grand Rounds. Happy Holidays!

January 17, 2020: Please plan to attend a special Medicine Grand Rounds in the Searle Center Lecture Hall. Damon Tweedy, MD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and author of Black Man in a White Coat, will present the annual Martin Luther King Jr. memorial lecture.

March 26, 2020: 15^th Annual Duke Quality & Safety Conference, Durham Convention Center.

The keynote speaker is Brent C. James, MD, MStat, a clinical professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, who will be presenting “Thriving under pay-for-value: the best clinical result at the lowest necessary cost.” The deadline for abstracts for the Duke Health Quality and Safety Conference is Dec. 2 at 5:00 p.m.

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Duke Heart in the News:

November 16 — Pamela Douglas

TCTMD/the heart beat

ISCHEMIA: Invasive Strategy No Better Than Meds for CV Events

https://www.tctmd.com/news/ischemia-invasive-strategy-no-better-meds-cv-events

November 16 — L. Kristin Newby

Medscape

COLCOT: Colchicine Shows Promise to Reduce Events After MI

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/921460?src=rss

November 17 — Manesh Patel

TCTMD/the heart beat

More Adverse Events, Higher Costs With Impella: New Observational Studies