Effective immediately, the American College of Cardiology is offering the EP Device Implant Registry, which will include data on ICD and CRT-D procedures previously captured in the NCDR ICD Registry as well as provide the flexibility to capture novel pacemaker procedures…
Despite the name, critical care scientists can be found throughout hospitals, helping to treat patients recovering from heart and lung surgery, pre and post heart and/or lung transplants, and patients who need mechanical ventilation, as well as supporting education and the management of medical devices. […]
A hypertensive emergency is when a patient has dangerously high blood pressure that causes complications such as organ failure. Malignant hypertension is one type of hypertensive emergency. There is disagreement between doctors and diagnostic guides about how to characterize malignant hypertension. Some refer to the sudden onset of […]
Although almost all mycobacterial species are saprophytic environmental organisms, a few, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, have evolved to cause transmissible human infection. By analyzing the recent emergence and spread of the environmental organism M. abscessus through the global cystic fibrosis population, we have defined key, generalizable steps involved […]
The continuous development of the technology sector has enabled the industry to merge with medicine in order to create new integrated, reliable, and efficient methods of providing quality health care. One of the ongoing trends in cardiology at present is the proposed utilization of artificial […]