Motivational Interviewing: Quality Improvement Training for Behavioral Health Care Workers.

The aim of this quality improvement project was to provide multisession trainings that teach the fundamentals of motivational interviewing (MI) to inpatient behavioral health care workers who lack education and proficiency in these techniques. MI is a therapeutic communication approach that explores a person's mixed feelings or ambivalence and aims to encourage a positive behavior change. It was first developed for patients struggling with substance use disorders to assist them in making decisions regarding their sobriety.

Reducing Stress in Health Care Workers Using Mindfulness: A Systematic Review.

Evidence shows that health care workers (HCWs) experience high levels of stress, heightened in recent years by the pandemic. Finding ways to alleviate this stress has become an important objective for health care systems. Mindfulness has been shown to reduce stress levels in HCWs.

Baseline Concussion Testing in High School Athletes: A Gap Between Policy and Practice.

Concussions are a significant concern in high school athletes. Implementation of effective baseline concussion testing procedures can aid athletic trainers and coaches with timely and accurate concussion diagnosis, as well as being used to develop a personalized treatment plan for postconcussion management. The purpose of this policy review was to (a) identify the gap between the current baseline concussion testing policy and practices in the high schools throughout the state, (b) highlight opinions that support the importance of and need for mandatory baseline concussion testing in high school athletes, and (c) identify potential revisions to the present policy to change how baseline concussion testing is done.

Contact Force Increases During Radiofrequency Ablation: A Novel Catheter Assessment of Myocardial Response to Thermal Injury.

Background: Contact force (CF) changes after onset of radiofrequency (RF) delivery are not well understood and often ascribed to catheter instability.

Objectives: This study sought to characterize CF changes during RF-based pulmonary vein (PV) isolation.

Methods: Catheter-tip parameters including CF for all RF sessions were extracted from a novel catheter-mapping system from 6 patients undergoing PV isolation.

Lesion Morphometry of the Pentaspline Pulsed Field Ablation Catheter: Understanding Catheter Pose, Rotation, and Dosing.

Background: The pentaspline pulsed field ablation catheter achieves pulmonary vein isolation using 8 stacked, pose-specific applications with rotation. The morphology of pose-specific, single or double applications has not been described.

Methods: One or 2 applications were delivered to select veins and discrete atrial and ventricular sites in 9 swine.