Timing and Magnitude of Regional Right Ventricular Function and Their Relationship with Early Hospital Mortality in Patients with Acute Pulmonary Embolism

OpenAlex İngilizce

Social media is defined as the electronic communication platform through which people from all around the world can share ideas, personal information, and other contents.Its dynamic nature and instant availability via our mobile devices have changed not only the way we communicate with other people, but also the way of education and learning.According to a recent report, 77% of adults between ages 30 to 49 use social media in 2015, compared with only 8% in 2005.Twitter is one of the social media microblogging platforms that allows its users to post tweets limited to 240 characters.Every user has a unique Twitter handle, or username, with a prefix "@" (e.g.@TKDsosyal) and topics can be referred to or searched by using a hashtag "#" (e.g.#Cardiotwitter).Since Twitter's foundation in 2006, it has become popular among different sectors including politics, business, and academia due to its ability to rapidly disseminate new information and provide a platform for debates.It has now more than 320 million monthly active users, with more than 80% of the users from outside the United States.Among healthcare providers, most cardiologists embraced Twitter as a new way of education and communicating.Recently published papers and challenging cases are discussed, findings from major cardiovascular (CV) meetings are broadcasted in real-time, new collaborations are formed and interactions with patients and patient-advocates became much easier.In a recent paper that analyzed the volume and content of Tweets associated with cardiovascular diseases (CVD) during the period from July 2009 to February 2015, Sinnenberg et al. [1] identified 4.9 million Tweets associated with CVD of which 550338 were in English.Diabetes and myocardial infarction were the most frequently used terms, and major themes included CV risk factors and awareness.Importantly, peak rate of tweets reflected the time of major CV-related events such as the World Diabetes Day.In August