Listener feedback on the most important study in a decade, MONITOR-HF, a flawed paper and analysis, and the tension between pathos and logos are the topics John Mandrola, MD discusses in this week's podcast.

This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only.

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I. Listener Feedback

Earlier Anticoagulation Safe in Stroke With AF: ELAN

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/992411

- Early versus Later Anticoagulation for Stroke with Atrial Fibrillation

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2303048

- Fibrinolysis or Primary PCI in ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1301092

II. Monitor HF

CardioMEMS Boosts QoL, Curbs HF Hospitalizations: MONITOR-HF

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/992333

- Remote haemodynamic monitoring of pulmonary artery pressures in patients with chronic heart failure (MONITOR-HF): a randomised clinical trial

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00923-6

- Remote pulmonary artery pressure monitoring in heart failure care: part of the new normal?

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01010-3

- Sowell’s A Conflict of Visions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Conflict_of_Visions

III. Intensive BP Treatment in Older Patients – Pathos vs Logos

- Clinical Outcomes of Intensive Inpatient Blood Pressure Management in Hospitalized Older

Adultshttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2805021

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