Visitation restriction and decision making: Healthcare surrogate experiences.

Objectives: We sought to discover whether hospital visitation restrictions imposed during COVID, and remaining at some institutions, influenced surrogate decision-making.

Methods: Thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews of people who served as healthcare surrogates for patients admitted to the intensive care unit with a palliative care consultation in January of 2021 at a large tertiary care hospital.

Results: Thirteen healthcare surrogates agreed to be interviewed out of the fifty-six who were identified and invited to participate.

The Role of Multimodality Imaging in HIV-Associated Cardiomyopathy.

Despite marked advances in therapeutics, HIV infection remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. HIV infection is associated with cardiovascular complications including myocardial dysfunction. The description of HIV-associated cardiomyopathy (HIVAC) has evolved over time from a predominantly dilated cardiomyopathy with systolic dysfunction to one of subclinical diastolic dysfunction.