Publications by authors named "N R Waldron"
Article Synopsis
- This article is the 17th installment in an annual series that reviews recent advancements in cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesiology, highlighting key themes for 2024.
- Key topics covered include perioperative rehabilitation and enhanced recovery strategies, insights into cardiac surgery particularly concerning anemia and gender disparities, and advancements in cardiothoracic transplantation and mechanical circulatory support devices.
- The article aims to inform readers about significant progress in the field, ultimately improving patient outcomes in cardiothoracic and vascular care.
Article Synopsis
- Informal caregivers providing home care often face stress that can negatively impact their health-related quality of life (HRQOL).
- The study aimed to assess the impact of the Further Enabling Care at Home (FECH+) program on improving HRQOL for caregivers of older adults after hospital discharge.
- Conducted as a randomized clinical trial in Australia, caregivers in the intervention group received structured support through phone calls, while the control group only received standard care, with various outcomes tracked over 12 months.
Introduction: Cardiac function is important to quantify for risk stratification. Although left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is commonly used, and identifies patients with poor systolic function, other easily acquired measures of cardiac function are needed, particularly to stratify patients with relatively preserved LVEF. LV relative wall thickness (RWT) has been associated with adverse clinical outcomes in patients with preserved LVEF, but the clinical relevance of this observation is not known.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Year in Graduate Medical Education: Selected Highlights from 2023.
J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth
December 2024
This special article is the third in an annual series of the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia that highlights significant literature from the world of graduate medical education published over the past year. Major themes addressed in this review include the potential uses and pitfalls of artificial intelligence in graduate medical education, trainee well-being and the rise of unionized house staff, the effect of gender and race/ethnicity on residency application and attrition rates, and the adoption of novel technologies in medical simulation and education. The authors thank the editorial board for again allowing us to draw attention to some of the more interesting work published in the field of graduate medical education during 2023.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To explore the association of estimated plasma volume (ePV) and plasma volume status (PVS) as surrogates of volume status with new-onset AKI and in-hospital mortality among hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
Materials And Methods: We performed a retrospective multi-center study on COVID-19-related ARDS patients who were admitted to the Mayo Clinic Enterprise health system. Plasma volume was calculated using the formulae for ePV and PVS, and longitudinal analysis was performed to find the association of ePV and PVS with new-onset AKI during hospitalization as the primary outcome and in-hospital mortality as a secondary outcome.