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Mechanical Devices as Small as Cell Phones Buy Quality Time for Patients with Advanced Heart Disease

02/12/2018

When it comes to mechanical heart devices, downsizing has been a good thing. Advances in ventricular assist devices (VADs – heart pumps that support part of the heart muscle) are giving a growing number of patients new options for living well with advanced heart failure. Implantable monitoring devices also improve quality-of-life for advanced heart disease patient care.
Small, Implantable Device Gives Heart Failure Patient Lifesaving Data

02/12/2018

A small, implantable pressure sensor is giving an Arizona woman control and confidence to manage her heart condition.
Hospital patients less likely to survive "off-hours" cardiac arrest

01/23/2018

Cardiac arrest survival is less likely in middle of the night or on weekends.
Karl B. Kern, MD

11/08/2017

More people will survive cardiac arrest if emergency medical dispatchers give chest compression-only CPR instructions over the phone and if infants and children receive chest compressions with rescue breaths.
Brain-heart connection

10/12/2017
Nancy K. Sweitzer, MD, PhD contributes to JACC editorial on the myth of the metaboloically healthy

09/11/2017

Obesity sans metabolic issues still tied to cardiovascular disease

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