Mike Cadogan

ECG criteria for left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) identify an abnormal electrical phenotype associated with increased left ventricular mass; they do not measure ventricular mass directly. Most criteria have high specificity but limited sensitivity: a positive result supports LVH, while a negative ECG does not exclude anatomical hypertrophy.

Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie Velpeau (1795-1867) was a French Surgeon. Velpeau was one of the most accomplished French surgeons and anatomists of the nineteenth century. Rising from rural poverty to the chair of clinical surgery in Paris, he combined clinical experience with an extraordinary literary output spanning operative surgery, regional anatomy, obstetrics, embryology and diseases of the breast.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) scribes are landing in hospitals and clinics faster than the evidence to support them. This article covers how they work, where they currently fall short, and what every clinician using one needs to know about accuracy, consent, and safety AI scribes have moved from novelty to near-routine in many clinical settings. For most clinicians, that move has happened faster than their training in how to use them safely.