Study: 28% of U.S. Adults are Tobacco Users
In the U.S., 28 percent of adults 18 years of age or older were current users of at least one type of tobacco product in 2013 and 2014 and nearly... Read more
Cardiac Rehabilitation: The Missing Link to Close Chain of Survival?
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common condition underlying out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Since the burden of CVD parallels that... Read more
Heart Disease in Postmenopausal Women Increased by Paracardial Heart Fat
Postmenopausal women are at a higher risk of heart disease due to a certain type of heart fat that collects around the organ, according to a... Read more
Is PCI Safe for Patients Undergoing TAVR?
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in addition to transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in patients with concomitant severe aortic... Read more
Higher Heart Disease Risk for Disadvantaged Women than Men
Women from low socioeconomic strata are 25 percent more likely to suffer a heart attack than disadvantaged men, according to a new study... Read more
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The World Health Organization (WHO) defines telemedicine as the delivery of health care services by healthcare professionals in areas where distance is a critical factor and where information and communication technologies need to be used for the exchange of information regarding diagnosis, treatment and prevention. The goal of telemedicine was... Read more
Zoom On: Prof. Mamas A. Mamas
Prof. Mamas A Mamas is a structural interventional cardiologist, treating patients with underlying coronary artery with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in both the elective and emergency setting and undertaking Transcatheter Aortic Valve Interventions (TAVI). He is also the Associate Editor of Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions and leads... Read more
Zoom On: Chelsea Beecher - Innovator of the Year
Chelsea Beecher serves as the Director of Development for the American Heart & Stroke Association in New York City. She led the launch of STEM Goes Red in New York City and received the Innovator of the Year Award in 2018 for this initiative. STEM Goes Red aims to empower young women to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)... Read more
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Future ICU Design: Return to High Visibility
Future ICU designs must feature high visibility to ensure safety.... Read more
The Footprints of a Gigantic Hound – Biomarkers in Intensive Care
Biomarkers hint at the pathophysiology behind a clinical entity, leading... Read more
Trust-abundant team principles
Effective models of trust How can you incorporate... Read more
Should Families Be Allowed To Visit Dying COVID-19 Patients in the ICU?
COVID-19 has drastically changed how end-of-life care is practiced... Read more
Biomarkers
Biomarkers are quantifiable indicators of physiological or pathological... Read more
Professorial Clinical Units
Advancing Research in the Intensive Care Unit via the Integration of a... Read more