
Nkiru Osude, MD MS
@nkiruosude
Cardiology Fellow @DukeCardiology, Lover of All Teas || Loose Leaf Tea | Healthcare Quality | Patient Saftey | Diversity | Opinions=Mine
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12-01-2021 23:11:16
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Antibiotics aren't sufficient to cure cardiac device infection. Extraction is critical to achieve cure. #Treat2BeatCIEDInfection❤️🩹 M. Rizwan Sohail, MD Christopher Granger Sean Pokorney Elaine Wan Bruce Wilkoff AHA Science Ellie Coromilas, MD Alexandra Wick, MD BCMHouston


Dr Sean Pokorney highlighting the critical importance of timely extraction for CIED infection #ACC22 #EPeeps #Cardiotwitter Bruce Wilkoff JMC Robert Schaller Duke Heart


“We’ve identified a large gap in care among patients with pacemaker and defibrillator infections,” said Sean Pokorney “I want to close that gap to save lives.” Jonathan Piccini, MD, MHS Manesh Patel Duke Clinical Research Institute Duke Health #Treat2BeatCIEDinfection

Had a wonderful time today during our Friday’s with Fawaz Lecture Series. Grateful to Fawaz Alenezi, MD and Abbott Cardiovascular for an informative interdisciplinary and interactive session on mitral clips and important images to obtain on pre-procedural TEEs 🩺🫀👩🏿⚕️ Duke Cardiology Fellows #echofirst



What a great crew!! Love being on this fight to ⬇️🫀disease with you all Let’s do this… one clinic at a time💪🏾🏃🏾♀️ Duke Cardiology Fellows Duke Heart


Our latest Featured Fellow is Anezi Uzendu, MD, a CV research fellow at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute. Nominated by Douglas Drachman, he has an incredibly inspiring story of resilience and perseverance. I invite you to read more about him on TCTMD's #FellowsForum. tctmd.com/news/anezi-uze…

Grateful to Steve Greene for an amazing conference on hospitalized HF Some Pearls🧠 1️⃣ Don’t consider GMDT..PRESCRIBE it 2️⃣ Treat HF with rapid sequence initiation of GDMT 3️⃣ A slice of 🍕 was not the trigger for the HF hospitalization, lack of GDMT initiation was!🤯



Our study which is the first randomized controlled trial of time restricted eating (TRE) in shift workers (firefighters working 24-hour shifts) was published today in Cell Metabolism and featured on the cover.🧵ASPC American College of Cardiology AHA Science Cardiometabolic Health Congress



Spent a few days on Capital Hill at #ACCLegConf advocating for legislation to: ⬆️ patient access to🫀care ⬆️ NIH research funding for valvular disease & South Asian🫀disease disparity ⬇️ delays in care 2/2 prior authorization 🧑🏽⚕️🫱🏿🫲🏾👩🏿⚕️ NC Chapter ACC Duke Cardiology Fellows #WIC #NCACCFIT


Grateful for this amazing group of friends, colleagues, & mentors from NC representing the ACC on Capitol Hill today! #ACCLegConf NC Chapter ACC Amy Winiger, DNP, ACNP-BC, FACC Thelsa Weickert Nkiru Osude, MD MS Mary Branch, MD MS B. Hadley Wilson MD Geoffrey Rose Wake Forest Baptist Health Cardiology


So much to do. What does community engagement look like? Individual patient engagement? Corporation engagement? Partnership is 🔑 The answer is not nothing. I’m inspired by Anezi Uzendu, MD and his work with MakeBLSBasic. Our communities are waiting. 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

Super proud of our daughter Kirin Saint (an M4 Michigan Medicine) for her recent essay in JGIM Journal of General Internal Medicine Could be the first time the term ‘gupshup’ has found its way into a biomedical journal 😉 #Kvelling #ProudPapa #GoBLUE


Shahzeb Khan discussing the design of the ALLEVIATE-HF trial Shahzeb Khan CVCT - CardioVascular Clinical Trialists #CVCT2022
