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Closing the Gap Between CIED Guidelines and Real-World Care

Managing pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) in the perioperative setting has always required a careful balance of preparation, judgment, and time. For anesthesiologists working in fast-moving operating rooms, the challenge isn’t a lack of guidelines—it’s accessing the right information quickly enough to use it. The Periop Pacemaker app grew out

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Building a Smartphone App: Taking a Chance on an Idea

“We need to take a chance on this.”. Almost three years ago, on a cold November morning, we found ourselves walking through the streets of downtown Richmond toward a university innovation building. The air was crisp, the idea was unproven, and everything about what we were about to do felt

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