CardioExchange, an NEJM practice community for medical professionals dedicated to improving cardiac patient care, was active from 2009 to 2015. CardioExchange fostered discussion between clinicians from across the globe.
In the catheterization laboratory, the most consequential decisions are frequently not about whether to treat, but rather about how far to extend treatment. Nowhere is that tension more apparent than in high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). In these cases, the margin between a good outcome and a catastrophic one is...
Among patients undergoing complex PCI, elective unloading with a microaxial flow pump did not reduce the risk of major adverse clinical outcomes as compared with standard care.
A physician offers to help in a medical emergency on a transatlantic flight. Though she faces limits of bureaucracy, equipment, and ultimately biology, she discovers her physicianhood is inescapable.