Archive: 21/12/2015
Researchers find heart attack patients not always receiving lowest-risk care
More than 375,000 American each year experience a heart attack, during which blood flow to a part of the heart is impeded by blocked arteries. Physicians often treat patients with stents, which prop open the arteries to allow ...
Dec 21, 2015
American College of Cardiology broadens mobile clinical app collection
The American College of Cardiology has launched a new STS/ACC TAVR In-Hospital Mortality Risk App and an extensively overhauled the ACC AnticoagEvaluator App, bolstering its expansive Clinical App Collection. With these new ...
Dec 21, 2015
Team demonstrates cost-effectiveness of Watchman device
The WATCHMAN Left Atrial Appendage Closure Device is more cost-effective than warfarin and non-warfarin oral anticoagulants (NOACs) for stroke reduction in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation, according to a study ...
Dec 21, 2015