Structural and interventional Cardiologist. FACC,FSCAI. Tweet ≠ medical advice. Like/RT/Follow ≠ endorse. Tweets ≠ employer’s opinion. #CardioX
Joined January 2017
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15 May 2019
Today I finally used my extensive training in the Krebs cycle from undergrad and medical school to diagnose and treat a patient.
Just kidding. I rounded and did some caths.
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Matthew Sample retweeted
4 May 2025
Interventional cardiology is largely a cognitive specialty rather than a technical one. Can’t have one without the other.
3 May 2025
I don’t always agree with posts by @georgetolisjr, but this is correct.
Much of surgery is technical.
But often, the cognitive part and decision making is the difference between life and death.
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15 Mar 2025
Owning three Labradors is a constant game of either What’s That Smell, Why Are You Wet, or Who’s Throw Up Is This?
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Matthew Sample retweeted
9 Sep 2024
I was part of #FAUST RCT
This was published 14 years ago and here we are still talking about operators not utilizing ultrasound. 🤦♂️
29 Mar 2019
#FAUST was randomized ultrasound guided vs fluoro guided femoral access
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2065…
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4 Sep 2024
This is why I’m still on this app. Well done.
4 Sep 2024
Temporary mechanical circulatory support in infarct-related cardiogenic shock: an individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised trials with 6-month follow-up: @TheLancet
🥸 "The use of MCS should be restricted to certain patients only" ~ @thiele_holger
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21 Jun 2024
If an operator has a 0% rate of radial access for diagnostic LHC, is this
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Valid based on evidence
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Malpractice
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Neither, please explain
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21 Jun 2024
Option 1, valid based on evidence would be more appropriately labeled as valid based on lack of evidence. Our data for radial benefits are in association with PCI. To my knowledge, there hasn’t been a robust clinical trial for radial vs femoral cath for diagnostic only.
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30 May 2024
I think BNP (and Pro BNP) have nearly eliminated clinical reasoning when it comes to diagnosing decompensated heart failure.
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29 May 2024
All states should adopt this law @AlHouseInfo @ALSenateRepubs @ALSenateDems
End this extortion by @ABIMcert
Found it! Thanks @MSampleMD !
The text reads:
“requirements to practice medicine.
The board shall not deny a physician licensure based on a physician's non-participation in any form of maintenance of licensure, including requiring any form of maintenance of licensure tied to maintenance of certification. The board's regular requirements, including continuing medical education, demonstrate professional competency.
The board shall not require any form of specialty medical board re-certification or any maintenance of certification to practice medicine in this state.
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20 Apr 2024
Quick! There’s a legal emergency down at the courthouse!
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14 Apr 2024
I just found out player 2 controlled the duck the whole time.
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Matthew Sample retweeted
5 Apr 2024
#SavvySpotlight from Drs. @MSampleMD, Bakir and Ferguson at @BBHealthAL! A 20 mm #Sapien 3 Ultra implanted via #SavvyWire in patient with low flow, low gradient aortic stenosis. 27 mmHg pre gradient & 34mmHg LVEDP. Post implant gradient of 3 mmHg. 1st #SavvyTAVI in Alabama!
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16 Jan 2024
Wow. That’s completely…reasonable.
16 Jan 2024
We applaud the @IDSAInfo and their call for substantive changes to ABIM MOC:
"...it would be more relevant to allow physicians to be self-directed in their learning, requiring instead that they partake in a specific number of hours or credits in their medical educational training of choice. Doing so will undoubtedly lead physicians to focus on filling learning gaps that are germane to their own practice."
@IDSAInfo - NBPAS provides a maintenance pathway that is streamlined, self-directed and cost efficient. Let us know if you would like to learn more.
academic.oup.com/cid/advance…
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Matthew Sample retweeted
12 Jan 2024
Thank you @PaulTeirstein @CMichaelGibson @bhweiner and @InfoNbpas Proud to be an NBPAS Diplomate! Looking forward to working together to end the @ABMSCert @ABIMcert MOC monopoly in 2024!
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3 Jan 2024
These were the last two tweets on my feed - I worry about the direction our collective intellect as a nation is headed. #MakeEducationGreatAgain @JaymetheRN @this_is_mallory
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9 Dec 2023
I’m kinda surprised that @nationallampoon and @tylenol haven’t gotten together on a deal for a Christmas season edition of Tylenol, capitalizing on the slogan
Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?
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1 Dec 2023
In my opinion, the ideal training regimen:
4 years college
4 years medical school
1 year intern (IM/transitional)
3 year Cardiology residency
2 or 3 year Interventional Fellowship (train in all CHIP, SHD, PVD)
In the US education system, to become an interventional cardiologist…
4y of college.
4y of medical school.
3y of IM residency.
3y of CV fellowship.
2y of IC fellowship.
Assuming no gap years, that is a total of 16 years of training, after high school!!
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Matthew Sample retweeted
30 Nov 2023
If there is a single thing I can add to the universe coming out of this illness, it is to build something that helps caregivers.
It's simply not possible for caregivers to "take care of themselves" if there is no infrastructure to rely on.
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20 Nov 2023
Walking outside of a patients room recently and heard the physician ask, “do you know where you are?”.
Why was the first thing that jumped into my head
“You’re in the jungle, baby!”?
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9 Nov 2023
Do y’all remember when we got to vote on a new M&M color? Those were the days.
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30 Oct 2023
Maybe I missed this, but when did picking your seats on a plane so as to sit with the person you’re traveling with becoming a fee and only intermittently honored?
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