Hospitals with the highest rates of cardiac arrests tend to have the poorest survival rates for those cases, new University of Michigan Health System research shows.
May 20, 2013
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(HealthDay)—Reduced emergency department visits for suspected cardiac disease during the COVID-19 pandemic peak in England are associated with a time-lagged increase in cardiac mortality, according to a research letter ...
Jan 14, 2021
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New research presented at this year's Euroanaesthesia congress in Vienna, Austria (1-3 June) shows that mortality in patients who had undergone heart bypass surgery was over 4 times higher in individuals with a high body ...
Jun 3, 2019
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The COVID-19 lockdown led to more than 45,000 cardiac procedures being missed this year, which could have a long-term impact on mortality rates as healthcare providers work to catch up.
Nov 3, 2020
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(HealthDay)—The overall incidence of cardiac complications is 6.7 per 1,000 lumbar spine surgical procedures, and complications are more frequent with lumbar fusion versus decompression, according to a study published in ...
Jul 23, 2013
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A new study, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Health Resources and Services Administration, and published in the January 2013 issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association ...
Jan 10, 2013
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Acute kidney injury (AKI), an abrupt decline in kidney function, often arises after major surgeries. A recent analysis indicates that taking certain reflux and ulcer medications that reduce stomach acid may put patients at ...
Nov 5, 2021
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Whether the measurement of the myocardial fractional flow reserve (FFR) in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) can contribute to an appropriate decision for or against the widening of coronary arteries was the subject ...
Jan 23, 2017
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Withholding angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) for longer than two days after surgery is associated with a significantly increased risk of postoperative death, according to a study of more than 30,000 patients in the VA ...
Jun 4, 2015
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Early-stage breast cancer patients who receive external beam therapy (XRT) are not at higher risk for serious long-term side effects in the chest area, including increase in deaths from cardiac disease and secondary malignancies, ...
Sep 24, 2013
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