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Who is guiding the guidelines?

Posted in bio ethics, Cardiology quotes, Centre for cardiology unlearninng, Medcal research, Medical education, Medical ethics, medical quotes, Quotes, Science and Religion, Uncategorized, wisdom in cardiology, tagged best quote on medical education, cardiology quotes, dr venkatesan cardiologist, guidelines protocols recommendation acc aha esc scai, medical ethics, venkat quotes on July 14, 2022|

Who is the guiding the guidelines, which have become omnipresent & omnipotent ?

I don’t know really. Some good people I guess. But, the doubt creeps in when they try to coerce it on us.

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“To be or Not 2B” : Let us stop fooling around with premature scientific evidence !

Posted in evidence based cardiology, health economics, Public Health, Public health issues, Social medicine, Uncategorized, tagged acc aha scai esc guidelines, class 2a vs 2b indication, Class 2b Indication, Comparative efficacy, cost effetiveness, dr venkatesan, evidence based medicine, health economics, health outcome analysis, levels of recommendation, venkat quotes on July 8, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is being projected as a scientific God’s secret specialty. Physicians who don’t follow EBM are considered unfit non-professionals. Presumably, in pursuit of truth, all those glamorous official bodies in cardiology bring out umpteen number of protocols, guidelines, advisories, and recommendations.

The blueprint for EBM

We have the famous 3 levels of recommendation backed up by different levels of evidence. Many of us trust these as the jury’s final verdict for most illnesses in cardiology. I would like to bring one particular issue about this hugely popular model of EBM. It is about one specific class of Indication referred to as 2b. The other day, there was an intense argument for an ICD in a young HCM patient and CRT in DCM based on this 2b stuff. Kindly request all of you to pause for a moment and introspect. We can realize, class 2b plays a mischievous game in EBM with the English language “may and may not”. It tries to push subconsciously an interventional bias from equipoise, in spite of lack of good evidence and clear divergence of opinion and a possible trend towards harm.

Further, there is widespread reluctance in many cardiac workgroups to refer class 3 recommendations as an absolute (or at least relative contraindication) It was strange to note one of my colleagues argued that, class 3 is also a fair recommendation, to accept or reject is in our domain. I was initially shocked to hear that but had to agree with him ultimately as we realized a significant chunk of interventions we do, like delayed PCI > 24 hrs, CTOs, and chronic stable belongs to the proud class 3 recommendation. The debate came to a funny end when a senior cardiologist confessed somehow class 3 seemed to be a lesser evil than even class 2B.

Final message

For the sake of our patients, we need to bring an urgent reform in the EBM. Let us merge class 2b with class 3 and put it in a single basket and keep it out of reach to all tempting stakeholders. We shall display only class 1 in our therapeutic showcase.

Counterpoint

(*Dynamic recommendations is the norm in science, as we accumulate evidence with time.. Agreed, let us do this silently in research labs. Don’t bring it to practical guidelines. No, can’t agree. Freedom to indulge with an experimental modality in a no-option patient must always be there as we are able to give the benefit of doubt to these helpless patients. This is a valid argument but we must not forget even in dire situations good option need not be a compulsive action, it can be in action as well)

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Democrazy in science needs some attention

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged best quote in science, ethics in medicine, venkat quotes on June 19, 2021|

Further reading

Here is a book from Dr. Ralf Sundberg, a former general and transplant surgeon, a prolific researcher from the prestigious Karolinska Institue, is trying hard to spill some not-so-sweet truths. A must-read, especially for the heavily biased optimistic scientists.

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How to read medical journals ? Please ensure . . . your knowledge has a short expiry date !

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged venkat quotes on February 25, 2018| Leave a Comment »

One car company recalls 100s of thousands of cars for faulty equipment issues in recent years . It goes on to add , beware , it’s potentially dangerous . . . please fix it and bring your car at the earliest !

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Mean while , scientific medical literature is flooded with dangerous articles, papers and guidelines . . . and pose serious threat to your patients !

Please search for the junk knowledge and then go on to expose, erase and , . . . and throw it to dustbin ! After all , research is searching for truth , again and again !

Let us welcome a new era , where we shall get alerts about wrong knowledge withdrawals and reversal ! Let it challenge the self proclaimed sancto-scientific medical world and a new medical literature cleansing movement (MLCM) begin in every sub specialty.

One such paper from Yale is linked below .

Finally . . . the forbidden message !

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Where there is a will . . . there will be a way !

Posted in Cardiology quotes, cardiology-ethics, tagged caring, ethics in medical profession, venkat quotes on October 30, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Caring shall be an inbuilt character in the Noble profession ,need not be a value added service or a separate medical specialty !

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Knowledge minus “ego” equals wisdom !

Posted in bio ethics, cardiology innovation, Cardiology quotes, cardiology-ethics, Venkat quotes, Wintage cardiology, tagged aga asd device ado 1 2 figulla flex 2, asd vasd pda device closure, cath lab nightmares, cath lab tricks and techniques, dr s venkatesan, ego vs wisdom, venkat quotes, wisdom quotes, wisdom vs knowledge on July 28, 2014| Leave a Comment »

As we practice this Noble (& Delicate ) profession ,we often tend to Ignore the warnings even from our learnt colleagues , Why ?

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Modern medical quotes : Medical research

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged hippocrates, medical quotes, medical research, randomised trails, rct, venkat quotes on June 18, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Essential qualification for becoming a great medical researcher is the “Fine art of mis-interpretating data “ Venkatesan sangareddi MD .Chennai .India

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