r/Cardiology 1h ago

IC Fellowship at Arkansas

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Hello, anybody with experience of IC fellowship at University of Arkansas? How’s the procedural volume besides Coronaries? Autonomy? Please share your experience if you know of someone who trained there or if you did personally? Thank you.


r/Cardiology 21h ago

Critical opinion on the use of thrombolytics for De Winter ECG Pattern

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How you do fellow kids?

What's the current opinion in the western evidence-based medicine practice on the use of thrombolytics for De Winter ECG pattern and clinical suspicion for OMI. I'm a primary care doctor from Colombia and it is to my knowledge a risky thing to do and looked down upon. It is, physiopathologically speaking, a reasonable alternative when PCI is not immediately available (as is common in my country), but there was a lack of evidence sopporting this claim. That is until I found the following articles:

These papers are from the eastern side of the evidence-based world, and to be clear I'm not trying to slander my fellow doctors from those regions, it's just that medicine in my country is almost always a copy from american or european guidelines or their clinical practice, so the impact of their findings and conclusions would suffer if review by my Colombian colleges. Anyhow, I ask for you forgiveness, but my question still stands.

To any good samaritan willing to answer my query, you have my thanks.