Chris Cook

Know how some surgeons carry around a keychain trach just in case they need an emergent airway in public? I think I want to carry around calipers in case I see a crowd of people gathered around a tough rhythm strip.

@drjohnm Rather than AC vs LAAC a better framing may be three axes of stroke risk reduction for those at elevated risk:(1) AC for nearly all (2) rhythm control when appropriate and (3) LAAC in cases of high residual risk or intolerance to AC.

> 600,000 left atrial appendage devices have been placed NOT NONINFERIOR 👇🏻 Trial is large, nonindustry funded and done in experienced centers in Germany Endpoint had both efficacy and safety components and still did not make non-inferiority I tried to tell you all

@hrs_journal Gotta workshop those figures a little more

Electrogram-guided Pulsed Field Ablation for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation: A Prospective Cohort Study heartrhythmjournal.com/article/S1547-…

@aclong111 For sure I call them bedtime stories

An uncomfortable reality: medicine leaves explanatory gaps. And people don't like uncertainty. And because of that, gaps rarely stay empty. They get filled with all sorts of things, when sometimes we’d be better off just admitting what we do and do not know.

Treatment of Drug Refractory VT with Conduction System Pacing as an Alternative to VT Ablation doi.org/10.1016/j.hrth… @TGHCares @USFHealth

Sure, you could use AI to summarize papers and explain them at a level anyone could understand... or you can turn the abstracts into music videos for no reason. The tools are not perfect yet, but the disparate elements (consistent characters, lip syncing, etc.) are evolving fast

Physicians cannot bear the responsibility alone here. The risk has to be distributed among our vendors, institutions, and at some level even patients will have to “buy in” (assume some of the risk) too. There are models for this in other industries that automate critical functions (e.g., autopilot). Healthcare is a very difficult space because the risks and benefits are both potentially very high and we are woefully under-resourced relative to other sectors that don’t have our systemic disadvantages (locked down data, human lives at stake). And right now we don’t know whether these systems will show superhuman effectiveness across domains or have a much narrower range of applicability. We have to prepare for all scenarios. A lot of these balancing questions also transcend healthcare, alignment is not at all guaranteed. A lot of work to be done by people interested in it, and it’s our best hope at shaping what it all looks like.

Re-learning teaching in order to teach. Superhumanization is opposite of self-acceptance. AI[validated] needs to be a flashlight to illuminate and not our eyes or brain.Wisdom remains ground truth. Calibrating AI Reliance—A Physician’s Superhuman Dilemma jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

Congratulations to Dr. Colleen McIntosh who won first place in #qualityimprovement during the poster session at this year’s Hospital Medicine Conference #HowWeHospitalist

@iScienceLuvr I’ll join

Thinking about creating a medical AI group chat here on Twitter... If you're a researcher/engineer/clinician/etc. working in AI or medical AI, let me know if you're interested in joining!

This new report adds to the list of the unanticipated and remarkable capabilities of deep learning A.I. for detecting abnormalities on medical scans

Manifestations of first degree LBBB doi.org/10.1016/j.hrth…

Transcatheter TV interventions JAILING pacemaker/ICD leads - @rdschaller ⭐️ Get #EPeeps on the CV team *early* Jailing is has risks! 🗑️ lead damage (esp pacer dependent pts) 🗑️ ⬆️⬆️difficulty & risk w/ later extraction - may be committing pts to surgical extraction #ACC23

First-of-its-kind team at TGH targets coronary micro vascular dysfunction. baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/…

@JoshLadd15 @angryfermion This is my favorite physics textbook, so good!

@angryfermion Intro to E&M (Electronic Music) DJ G ☝️ 4th edition

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (2nd Edition) by David J. Griffiths is a beautiful name for a girl

The first book of the UCLA- Amara Yad project-providing highest quality open access content for all! Thank you to @Cardiotext for partnering in this important project! Free download cardiotextpublishing.com/openaccess/atl… @dgsomucla @Ed_Gerst @clancyatheart @DrRoderickTung

@jeffrey_vinocur @AbbottNews @MRobinsonEP @Dr_Santangeli To your point an operator only has to go through and through a Capri Sun once before you start looking for a safer way.

@jeffrey_vinocur @AbbottNews @MRobinsonEP @Dr_Santangeli I feel like in 12-18 months we will all be doing that.

Great VT-focused session this week with @AbbottNews, @MRobinsonEP, @Dr_Santangeli, and Frank Marchlinski in Austin, TX. The discussion of bevel orientation during epicardial access came in handy today when trying to obtain access to a “dry” Capri Sun!

AddThis | Home doi.org/10.1016/j.hroo…

@Q_S_J Congrats I went to Georgetown for med school and it was a great experience!

JUST GOT ACCEPTED INTO GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE!! I'M GOING TO BE A DOCTOR!!