Heart Patients Can Stop Blood Thinners before Elective Surgery
According to research by Duke Medicine, patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) who stopped taking blood thinners before they had elective surgery... Read more
Monitoring of Pacemakers, Defibrillators Underestimates Device Problems
According to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, the current monitoring of patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs)... Read more
Cardio-oncology Services can Improve Patient Care
According to a survey published in the American Journal of Cardiology , lack of hospital training programs, no formal training or services... Read more
Researchers find Cell that Replenishes Heart Muscle
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a cell that replenishes adult heart muscle by using a new cell lineage-tracing... Read more
Uninterrupted Vitamin-K Antagonists during Ablation and Device Implantation
The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has recommended uninterrupted anticoagulation with vitamin K antagonists during ablation and device... Read more
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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
How are robots improving cardiovascular medicine?
Robots were first used in cardiovascular medicine in the late 1990s as a part of the digital revolution . Since then, robotics have been applied to endovascular surgery, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, and interventional cardiology, to name a few fields. Robots give medical professionals the ability to diagnose, treat, and intervene more... Read more
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What is the future of breast cancer screening?
Αdvances in technology and the advent of precision medicine point... Read more
Future of ultrasound: where are we going?
CEUS for children, ultrasound simulation and gamification models for... Read more
Healthcare 2030: Transformation in the Next Decade
2020 marks the start of a new decade and, with factors such as the Silver... Read more
Hospital Magazines: Top Tips From an Expert
Following HealthManagement. org's articles on blogging (La Calle et... Read more
Protecting ward patients
Finding patients before they crash might be the next major opportunity... Read more
Inotropic Agents for Heart Failure - Wishful Thinking?
Summary: Calcium activation and calcium sensitivity in the failing... Read more
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The Task Force® Monitor is the all‐in‐one workstation for continuous noninvasive hemodynamic and autonomic assessment. It is the state‐of‐the‐art diagnostic tool to study syncope and autoregulation of blood pressure and has further established as an...