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Duke Heart Week ending August 9th 2020

Thank-you, Duke Heart Providers & Staff!!

Thank you to all of our Duke Heart staff members and provider teams for your dedication and extraordinary efforts throughout the pandemic. This has not been an easy time for any of us and we know you’re working extremely hard under difficult and often confusing circumstances, be it in the clinics, the hospitals, our research facilities or you’re working from home. It might be virtual; it might be in person and behind a mask – either way, we see you and we know you’re giving us your all. We have an incredible team within Duke Heart (we think it’s the best one at Duke!) – thank you everyone. We truly appreciate what you do each and every day.

Shout-out to Sandoval

Duke Cardiac Sonographer Eddy Sandoval was caught going the extra mile for our patients this week – not only by expertly acquiring and interpreting cardiac images, but then following all of that up by wheeling a patient back to her car.

Hat tip to James Jollis for the photo!

MURDOCK C3PI Study Update

We learned this week that more than 1,300 people have enrolled in the MURDOCK Cabarrus County COVID-19 Prevalence and Immunity (C3PI) Study since June 9, including 300 participants co-enrolled in a testing cohort.

The MURDOCK C3PI Study is a partnership between Duke, study participants, and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) to understand the community prevalence of COVID-19 and to monitor the disease over time. The study is part of a statewide effort to learn more about what percentage of people have no symptoms and better understand the true number of COVID-19 infections in North Carolina.

Located at the Duke CTSI office in Kannapolis, the Translational Population Health Research (TransPop) group set up a drive-through testing site in a parking lot at the North Carolina Research Campus to observe participants self-administer their initial nasal swab test. They will do subsequent nasal swabs at home every other week for at least six months to detect COVID-19 infection. Serology testing is also underway to detect antibodies that could indicate prior, potentially asymptomatic, exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and possible immunity.

To read more about this project, please visit: https://www.ctsi.duke.edu/news/murdock-c3pi-study-covid-19-testing-serology-underway-kannapolis

 

COVID-19 Updates:

All the latest official DUHS information regarding coronavirus/COVID-19 response at the following locations:

Have news to share?

If you have news to share with the Pulse readership, please contact Tracey Koepke, director of communications for Duke Heart at tracey.koepke@duke.edu. We would love to hear about your latest accomplishments, professional news, cool happenings, and any events or opportunities that may be of interest to our Duke Heart family. Please call with any questions: 919-681-2868. Feedback on Pulse is welcome and encouraged.

Duke Heart in the News:

August 2 — L. Kristin Newby and Chris Woods (Global Health, CTSI)

Independent Tribune

Testing begins in Duke CTSI’s COVID-19 study

https://bit.ly/3guRBRf

August 3 — Ann Marie Navar and Michael Zeitouni (Duke Clinical Research Institute)

Healio/Cardiology

Cholesterol guideline suitability questioned in younger patients with, at risk for MI

https://bit.ly/3fEwPx7

August 3 — Duke University Hospital

Becker’s Hospital Review

Top hospitals for cardiology by state, ranked by US News

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/cardiology/top-hospitals-for-cardiology-by-state-ranked-by-us-news.html

 


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