Search Tag: AHA
New-guidelines-for-cardiovascular-risk-assessment-released-by-acc-aha
2013 15 Nov
By focusing on prevention strategies, broader assessment may enhance at-risk patient identification. New and improved clinical practice guidelines were released by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association with the key aim to assist primary care clinicians in better recognising those adult patients at increased risk...Read more
Innovative-collaboration-aims-to-expand-science-of-heart-studies-towards-personalised-medicine
2013 20 Nov
A new collaborative research relationship between the American Heart Association, the University of Mississippi and Boston University, representing a bold vision for cardiovascular population science, was announced today at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions. The collaboration has a vision of greatly expanding important population...Read more
Zoll-achieves-platinum-status-as-american-heart-association-fit-friendly-company
2014 06 Feb
ZOLL Medical Corporation, a manufacturer of resuscitation devices and related software solutions, has been recognised for the third consecutive year as a Platinum-Level company by the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Fit-Friendly initiative for helping employees to eat better and move more. “Physical activity and employee wellness are important...Read more
Better-get-moving-moderate-exercise-cuts-women-s-stroke-risk
2014 14 Feb
Moderate exercise like brisk walking may cut women’s stroke risk 20 percent and help offset some of the increased stroke risk in women taking postmenopausal hormone therapy. According to the latest research presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2014, women do not need to run marathons or do intense aerobics...Read more
Physio-control-and-pulsepoint-foundation-expand-cpr-and-aed-awareness
2014 17 Feb
Record number of US communities go live on PulsePoint App during American Heart Month Physio-Control, the leading provider of emergency medical response technologies worldwide, and the PulsePoint Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing mobile technologies to help everyday citizens save lives, have announced that over 200...Read more
American-heart-association-launches-online-pediatric-first-aid-cpr-course
2014 17 Apr
New course teaches child care providers and parents vital life-saving skills For parents and child care providers, the statistics about accidental injuries of children up to age 19 are daunting. More than 12,000 children die from accidental injuries each year, and more than 9.2 million are treated in the ER for nonfatal injuries, according to...Read more
Aha-study-end-of-life-care-discussion-still-uncommon
2014 06 Jun
Though recommended by the American Heart Association, it appears that the subject of death is still not a common topic of discussion with only 12 percent of healthcare providers reporting having routine annual conversations about end-of-life care with their heart failure patients. Findings from a survey completed by close to 100 physicians,...Read more
Beta-blockers-no-improved-outcomes-for-heart-bypass-patients
2014 18 Jun
A new retrospective analysis of patient data suggests that the preoperative use of beta-blockers does not improve outcomes for all patients who undergo nonemergency coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery. Patients who had not experienced a heart attack in the three weeks prior to surgery, and who did not exhibit other high-risk symptoms, had...Read more
Ffr-and-ivus-guided-pci-vs-standard-pci
2014 11 Aug
According to a new observational study, the use of fractional flow reserve (FFR) or intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) during PCI does not improve long-term mortality when compared with standard angiography-guided PCI. The study findings are based on the analysis of 41,688 patients that were included in the Pan-London (UK) PCI Registry with stable angina...Read more
Zoom-on-nancy-brown-ceo-american-heart-association
2014 11 Aug
Nancy Brown is the Chief Executive Officer of the American Heart Association (AHA), the oldest and largest voluntary health organisation dedicated to building healthier lives, free of heart disease and stroke. Brown is the first woman CEO in the history of AHA. She has been holding this position since 2009. Brown has a Bachelor of Science degree in...Read more
Aha-to-clinicians-know-the-radiation-risks-of-heart-imaging
2014 01 Oct
The American Heart Association (AHA) has issued a new scientific statement stressing the importance of clinicians to understand the risks of heart imaging involving radiation and to discuss these with patients before ordering such tests. The advisory came out amidst increasing reliance on the use of medical imaging to diagnose and treat patients with...Read more
Can-advanced-emrs-make-patient-care-safer
2014 28 Nov
Patient safety is one of the foremost challenges in US healthcare, affecting hundreds of thousands of patients and costing tens of billions of dollars every year. According to the landmark Institute of Medicine (IOM) report "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System", 44,000 to 98,000 people die each year in US hospitals from preventable medical...Read more
Rick-pollack-named-president-and-ceo-of-the-american-hospital-association
2015 05 May
The American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Board of Trustees has announced the appointment of Rick Pollack as the next president and CEO, to succeed Richard J. Umbdenstock, who retires at the end of 2015. Pollack has served since 1991 as AHA’s executive vice president for advocacy and public policy responsible for the development, implementation and...Read more
Statement-from-penumbra-inc-regarding-aha-asa-guidelines-on-acute-ischemic-stroke
2015 29 Jun
Guidelines Confirm the Benefit of Endovascular Treatment -- Penumbra, Inc ., a global interventional therapies company that designs, develops, manufactures and markets innovative medical devices, including those used in endovascular stroke therapy, issued the following statement from Adam Elsesser, chairman and chief executive officer, regarding...Read more
Promoting-healthy-lifestyle-to-combat-non-communicable-disease
2015 09 Jul
Leading experts in cardiology and preventive medicine have issued a call to action to tackle the global problem of deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as heart problems, diabetes and cancer, through healthy lifestyle initiatives. They say that identifying the enormous burden caused by NCDs is not enough and call for a "paradigm shift"...Read more
Genomic-medicine-may-revolutionise-cardiovascular-care
2018 07 Jun
Genomic medicine is the study of the health effects of the molecular interactions of a person's unique genes. Genomic medicine looks at all the types of molecular variation, from the DNA and RNA to the microorganisms in the human gut that seem to play an increasingly important role in maintaining health. A new scientific statement from the...Read more
2019-aha-acc-hrs-guideline-for-the-management-of-af
2019 07 Feb
An update of the 2014 AHA/ACC/HRS Guideline for the Management of Patients with Atrial Fibrillation has been released. The focused update includes revisions to the section on anticoagulation, revisions to the section on catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF), revisions to the section on the management of AF complicating acute coronary syndrome...Read more
Zoom-on-chelsea-beecher-innovator-of-the-year
2019 15 Mar
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
2019-aha-acc-guideline-on-cvd-primary-prevention
2019 20 Mar
An updated guideline for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease has been released jointly by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology. Among the major changes is a recommendation against the broad use of aspirin in primary prevention, after recently reported results of the ARRIVE, ASCEND, and ASPREE trials...Read more
Aha-rural-health-care-leadership-conference-2020
2020 02 Feb
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Heart-failure-patients-do-not-take-guideline-recommended-drugs
2019 10 Apr
Heart failure patients who could possibly benefit from a newer class of drug to lower their heart rate were more likely to take the medication if it was prescribed before hospital discharge rather than in a follow-up doctor's visit, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association's Quailty of Care and Outcomes Research...Read more
Medi-learn-emergency-doctor-course-christkindl
2019 06 Dec
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Sensors-in-everyday-objects-for-dementia-care
2019 26 Aug
Summary: The past, present & future of dementia care using sensors in everyday life objects through four use cases from research labs to large-scale pilots & adoption by pharmaceutical companies. Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder. It is the main cause of dementia, a syndrome defined by loss of cognitive...Read more
Cardiovascular-disease-prevention-2019-quo-vadis
2019 26 Aug
Summary: Cardiovascular disease prevention strategies in 2019 remain a major healthcare issue, requiring an individualised approach for diagnostic and therapeutic decision making. Introduction Since investigators from the Framingham Heart Study first confirmed the existence and importance of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in...Read more
Encourage-trial-simple-nudges-improve-statin-prescription-adherence
2019 23 Nov
Statins are an effective medication for treating patients with heart disease. They cut the risk of a second major adverse cardiac event by almost 50$. But only about 6% of patients take statins as prescribed. One way to solve that? Nudge them. Literally. In a new study presented to heart specialists from around the world, researchers at the Intermountain...Read more
Orion-10-trial-inclisiran-effective-at-reducing-ldl
2019 23 Nov
Twice-yearly injections of an experimental cholesterol-lowering drug, inclisiran, were effective at reducing low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, often called bad cholesterol, in patients already taking the maximum dose of statin drugs, according to data of the ORION-10 trial presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2019....Read more
Heart-on-a-chip-technology-directly-measures-in-vivo-cardiac-performance
2019 23 Nov
At the AHA Scientific Sessions in Philadelphia, data from a study of investigational candidate, MYK-491, showed that a human iPSC-derived organ-on-a-chip technology can directly measure in vivo cardiac performance. MYK-491 increases the contractility of the heart (systolic function) with minimal or no effect on myocardial relaxation and compliance...Read more