Publications by authors named "Rhythm Vasudeva"
Patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) on dialysis have an increased burden of coronary artery disease (CAD). This study assessed the trend and outcomes for coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) in patients with ESKD and stable CAD. We conducted a longitudinal study using the United States Renal Data System of patients with ESKD and stable CAD who underwent CABG from the years 2009 to 2017.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: This study assessed the educational impact of hybrid cardiac Point of Care Ultrasonography (POCUS) training in a community-based academic setting.
Methods: Internal Medicine and Medicine/Pediatrics residents across all post-graduate years (PGY) at a midwestern medical school under-took a structured hybrid (online and hands-on teaching) model of POCUS training. Anonymous surveys with Likert-type scale responses were administered before and after the curriculum.
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- * Black and Asian patients also faced lower odds of receiving invasive treatments like percutaneous coronary intervention compared to White patients, highlighting racial inequalities in healthcare access.
- * Interestingly, uninsured patients had higher rates of receiving percutaneous coronary intervention and lower in-hospital mortality compared to those with private insurance, which challenges typical assumptions about insurance status and treatment outcomes.
Background: Several cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and sequelae have been associated with COVID-19. Little is known about the distribution of CVD conditions in COVID-19 related deaths in the US population.
Methods: The public-use dataset by CDC, "Conditions Contributing to COVID-19 Deaths, by State and Age, Provisional 2020-2021", was abstracted as of August 1, 2021.
Introduction: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the most common arrhythmias among hospitalized patients. Among patients admitted with septic shock (SS), the new occurrence of atrial fibrillation has been associated with an increase in intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay and in-hospital mortality. This is partially related to further reduction in cardiac output and thus worsening organ perfusion due to atrial fibrillation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality risk. The risk for adverse outcomes in patients with PAH in sepsis or septic shock (SSS) is uncertain.
Methods: Adult patients diagnosed with SSS were identified in the National Readmissions Database over the years 2016-2017.
Objective: To evaluate the trends in hospitalization for kernicterus in the United States from 2006 through 2016.
Method: Repeated, cross-sectional analysis of the 2006 to 2016 editions of the Kids' Inpatient Database. All neonatal hospitalizations with an International Classification of Diseases, Ninth or Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification code for kernicterus and admitted at age ≤28 days were included.
Objectives: To evaluate the trends in hospitalization for neonatal jaundice and its management with phototherapy and exchange transfusion in the United States from 2006 through 2016.
Methods: Repeated, cross-sectional analysis of the 2006 to 2016 editions of the Kids' Inpatient Database. All neonatal hospitalizations with an International Classification of Diseases, 9th or 10th Revision, Clinical Modification code for jaundice and admitted at age ≤28 days were included.
Objectives: To explore trends in hospitalization rate, resource use, and outcomes of Kawasaki Disease (KD) in children in the United States from 2008 to 2017.
Methods: This was a retrospective, serial cross-sectional analysis of pediatric hospitalizations with International Classification of Disease diagnostic codes for KD in the National Inpatient Sample. Hospitalization rates per 100 000 populations were calculated and stratified by age group, gender, race, and US census region.
Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) is a constellation of microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and acute renal failure. Shiga toxin-producing - (STEC-) mediated HUS is a common cause of acute renal failure in children and can rarely result in severe neurological complications such as encephalopathy, seizures, cerebrovascular accidents, and coma. Current literature supports use of eculizumab, a monoclonal antibody that blocks complement activation, in atypical HUS (aHUS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground The incidence rate and economic burden of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) are increasing in the United States (US). We explored the link between the length of stay (LOS) and hospitalization cost for neonatal abstinence syndrome in 2018. Methods This was a cross-sectional analysis of the 2018 national inpatient sample database.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Although a growing body of evidence suggests that early transition to oral antimicrobial therapy is equally efficacious to prolonged intravenous antibiotics for treatment of acute pediatric osteomyelitis, little is known about the pediatric trends in peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) placements. Using a national database, we examined incidence rates of pediatric hospitalizations for acute osteomyelitis in the United States from 2007 through 2016, as well as the trends in PICC placement, length of stay (LOS), and cost associated with these hospitalizations.
Methods: This was a retrospective, serial cross-sectional study of the National Inpatient Sample database from 2007 through 2016.