#TLDR: Twitter is Changing Everything

Changing pertussis epidemiology: everything old is new again.

Before vaccination, pertussis was a universal disease of early childhood. Although apparent control of the disease in the United States and other countries was achieved through vaccination, pertussis is resurgent. Though acellular vaccines have been in use for 20 years, new data are emerging on their effectiveness and durability of protection and the contribution of these characteristics to the...

Is Timing Everything?

Thank you Ben and AmSECT for organizing this conference. And thank you all for showing up on Saturday morning. My objectives for this presentation are to review the current knowledge of time spent below critical thresholds and more specifically the relationship between low oxygen delivery and organ function following cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). Additionally, we will investigate the time–dose ...

Support is everything

Inadequate support for placement of balloons or stents continues to be a problem in interventional cardiology. We read with interest the report on MotherDaughter-Granddaughter Double Guide Liner Technique for Delivering Stents Past Multiple Extreme Angulations. The authors cleverly describe the use of a 6 French Guide Liner inside an 8 French Guide Liner to cross two difficult to cross saphenou...

Everything Is Under Control

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Timing Is Everything?