The Effectiveness of Different Teaching Modalities for the Detection of Heart Murmurs in Undergraduate Medical Education: A Review.

One of the many physical exam skills introduced to medical students during their pre-clerkship education is cardiac auscultation, one purpose of which is to teach the detection and identification of heart murmurs. Cardiac auscultation with a stethoscope has been the standard method of teaching. Another method, point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), has been recently introduced as another modality by which students learn to detect and identify murmurs.

Circadian Hygiene in the ICU Environment (CHIE) study.

To investigate the environment and care in the intensive care unit (ICU) and its relationship to patient circadian temperature disruption. 30-day, prospective period prevalence study. 27-bed tertiary ICU.

Predictors of New Onset Atrial Fibrillation Burden in the Critically Ill.

Introduction: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is common in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting and has been associated with adverse outcomes. In this context, there is increasing research interest in AF burden as a predictor of subsequent adverse events. However, the pathophysiology and drivers of AF burden in the ICU are poorly understood.

Circadian Rhythmicity of Vital Signs at Intensive Care Unit Discharge and Outcome of Traumatic Brain Injury.

Background: Physiological functions with circadian rhythmicity are often disrupted during illness.

Objective: To assess the utility of circadian rhythmicity of vital signs in predicting outcome of traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Methods: A retrospective single-center cohort study of adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients with largely isolated TBI to explore the relationship between the circadian rhythmicity of vital signs during the last 24 hours before ICU discharge and clinical markers of TBI severity and score on the Glasgow Outcome Scale 6 months after injury (GOS-6).

Critical illness associated new onset atrial fibrillation: subsequent atrial fibrillation diagnoses and other adverse outcomes.

Aims: Amongst patients with critical illness associated new onset AF (CI-NOAF), the risk of subsequent atrial fibrillation (AF) diagnoses and other adverse outcomes is unknown, and the role for long-term anticoagulation is unclear. This study sought to determine the factors associated with subsequent AF diagnoses and other adverse outcomes in this cohort.

Methods And Results: Admissions to a tertiary general intensive care unit (ICU) between December 2015 and September 2018 were screened for AF episodes through hourly analysis of continuous ECG monitoring.