Heart:
Heart Failure, Heart Disease, Heart Attack, Human Heart, Open Heart Surgery.
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May 5th, 2009
Survival rates from out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest almost doubled when professional rescuers using cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) gave better chest compressions and minimized interruptions to them.
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May 1st, 2009
Researchers have discovered a possible cause for memory and taste loss among patients who undergo procedures such as heart bypass and dialysis - it may be the plastic tubing used to deliver intravenous fluids, also shown to affect heart function in lab studies using rats.
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Apr 28th, 2009
Heart patients who receive primary care at community health clinics — especially women — are less likely to have a consultation with a cardiologist than those who receive primary care at hospitals.
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Apr 27th, 2009
Heart failure patients and their caregivers want to know what to anticipate with the illness, get more help with symptom relief and have increased communication with members of the medical team providing care.
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Apr 27th, 2009
Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute is the first center in Illinois and among the first in the country to implant a new experimental left ventricular assist device (LVAD) into subjects with advanced heart failure, a condition where the heart cannot pump enough blood to the body’s organs.
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Apr 23rd, 2009
Non-specialist physicians who inserted implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) had higher rates of complications in their patients than electrophysiologists, who are specially trained to implant the devices.
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Apr 23rd, 2009
A West Virginia man and a central Ohio man are the first in the United States – and only the sixth and seventh worldwide – to receive an implant designed to treat moderate heart failure by strengthening cardiac output.
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Apr 22nd, 2009
When it comes to the "wiring" of the heart it matters who takes care of the patient.
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Apr 17th, 2009
The right mix of Portuguese instrumentals calms Philadelphia researcher Joke Bradt. Bradt said if she needed a coronary procedure, she would come prepared. “I would make sure I brought an iPod with music I love that had relaxing qualities. Preferably, I would like to have a music therapist in the room.”
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Apr 14th, 2009
Since about half of all heart attacks occur without any warning, there is increasing interest in finding new ways to identify a person’s risk for heart attack.
