July 15, 2022 This Week in Cardiology Podcast

The LIFE study, multimorbidity and evidence translation, cardiac arrest and therapeutic fashion, diabetes and cardiology, and EP cuts are the topics John Mandrola, MD, tackles in this week's podcast. This podcast is intended for healthcare professionals only. To read a partial transcript or to comment, visit: https://www.medscape.com/twic

I – LIFE Study and Substudy

- LIFE: ARNI Does Not Best Valsartan in Advanced Heart Failure https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/952681

- Tolerability of Sacubitril/Valsartan in Patients With Advanced Heart Failure: Analysis of the LIFE Trial Run-In https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jchf.2022.04.013

- Effect of Treatment With Sacubitril/Valsartan in Patients With Advanced Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection FractionA Randomized Clinical Trial https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2785700

II – Early Angiography and Therapeutic Fashion

- Emergency Angiography for Cardiac Arrest Without ST Elevation? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/975434

- Emergency vs Delayed Coronary Angiogram in Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac ArrestResults of the Randomized, Multicentric EMERGE Trial https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/article-abstract/2793310

- Immediate Coronary Angiography in Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199706053362302

- Coronary Angiography after Cardiac Arrest without ST-Segment Elevation https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa1816897

- Randomized Pilot Clinical Trial of Early Coronary Angiography Versus No Early Coronary Angiography After Cardiac Arrest Without ST-Segment Elevation https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.049569

- Angiography after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest without ST-Segment Elevation https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2101909

- Most healthcare interventions tested in Cochrane Reviews are not effective according to high quality evidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(22)00100-7/fulltext

III – Diabetes and Cardiology

- Medicare Advantage Tied to Less Use of Pricey Diabetes Drugs https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/977181

- Diabetes Care Among Older Adults Enrolled in Medicare Advantage Versus Traditional Medicare Fee-For-Service Plans: The Diabetes Collaborative Registry https://doi.org/10.2337/dc21-1178

IV – EP Cuts

- EP Ablation Rate Changes in 2022 Physician Fee Schedule https://www.acc.org/Latest-in-Cardiology/Articles/2021/11/18/01/44/EP-Ablation-Rate-Changes-in-2022-Physician-Fee-Schedule

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