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Nation’s First Mobile Stroke Unit Gets New Look, Updated Imaging and Treatment Capabilities
05/15/2024

Memorial Hermann Health System News

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“By identifying strokes faster and starting treatment sooner, the mobile stroke unit saves precious minutes when a stroke patient is losing nearly half a million brain cells per second,” said James Grotta, MD, a neurologist and the director...
“By identifying strokes faster and starting treatment sooner, the mobile stroke unit saves precious minutes when a stroke patient is losing nearly half a million brain cells per second,” said James Grotta, MD, a neurologist and the director...
“By identifying strokes faster...
05/15/2024
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Method could provide opportunistic cardiac screening and identify high-risk patients
AI
Using AI to Repurpose Routine CT Scans
05/15/2024

By Karen Olsen

By Karen Olsen
A collaborative team at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is using artificial intelligence (AI) to mine common chest CT scans to predict mortality. Their research identified a collection of cardiac factors that were predictive of...
A collaborative team at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is using artificial intelligence (AI) to mine common chest CT scans to predict mortality. Their research identified a collection of cardiac factors that were predictive of...
A collaborative team at...
05/15/2024
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EMS ECMO
Cardiac Arrest
North Carolina's Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and Forsyth County EMS Launch Innovative Program to Improve Cardiac Arrest Outcomes
05/15/2024

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and Forsyth County EMS News

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and...
The innovative program, called eCPR, is designed specifically for patients in Forsyth County who experience sudden cardiac arrest caused by a life-threatening irregular heart rhythm, and who show signs that the damage can be reversed. The “e”...
The innovative program, called eCPR, is designed specifically for patients in Forsyth County who experience sudden cardiac arrest caused by a life-threatening irregular heart rhythm, and who show signs that the damage can be reversed. The “e”...
The innovative program, called...
05/15/2024
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PAD Guidelines
New Guidelines Published to Lower the Risk of Amputation in Peripheral Artery Disease
05/14/2024

American Heart Association News

American Heart Association News ...
"It's important to recognize the signs and symptoms of PAD and move quickly to initiate treatment to improve outcomes and reduce risks," Dr. Heather Gornik, chair of the writing committee for the new guidelines, said. "With these updated...
"It's important to recognize the signs and symptoms of PAD and move quickly to initiate treatment to improve outcomes and reduce risks," Dr. Heather Gornik, chair of the writing committee for the new guidelines, said. "With these updated...
"It's important to recognize...
05/14/2024
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structural heart procedures
Teleflex Announces Limited Market Release of the Wattson Temporary Pacing Guidewire
05/14/2024

Teleflex News

Teleflex News
Featuring a simple design to create procedural efficiencies, the Wattson™ Temporary Pacing Guidewire offers dual functionality, supporting both valve delivery and ventricular bipolar pacing during structural heart procedures, including...
Featuring a simple design to create procedural efficiencies, the Wattson™ Temporary Pacing Guidewire offers dual functionality, supporting both valve delivery and ventricular bipolar pacing during structural heart procedures, including...
Featuring a simple design to...
05/14/2024
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TAVR
EuroPCR: Medtronic Evolut TAVR Platform Demonstrates Improved Quality of Life for Women with Severe Aortic Stenosis
05/14/2024
"This study is a major milestone for women, who have historically been excluded and underrepresented in clinical trials," said Roxana Mehran, MD.. "This subset of the data reinforces that compared to balloon-expandable valves, the Evolut TAVR...
"This study is a major milestone for women, who have historically been excluded and underrepresented in clinical trials," said Roxana Mehran, MD.. "This subset of the data reinforces that compared to balloon-expandable valves, the Evolut TAVR...
"This study is a major milestone...
05/14/2024
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Quantitative Flow Ratio (QFR)
GE HealthCare and Medis Medical Imaging Announce Collaboration Focused on Non-Invasive Coronary Assessments to Help Advance Precision Care in Treatment of CAD
05/14/2024

GE HealthCare and Medis Medical Imaging News

GE HealthCare and Medis Medical Imagi...
Together, the two companies will work to further the development and commercialization of Medis Quantitative Flow Ratio (Medis QFR), a non-invasive approach to the assessment of coronary physiology, as part of GE HealthCare’s interventional...
Together, the two companies will work to further the development and commercialization of Medis Quantitative Flow Ratio (Medis QFR), a non-invasive approach to the assessment of coronary physiology, as part of GE HealthCare’s interventional...
Together, the two companies will...
05/14/2024
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Obstructive HCM
SEQUOIA-HCM Trial: Experimental Drug Aficamten Makes Exercise, Everyday Tasks Easier for People With Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
05/14/2024

Oregon Health & Science University and European Society of Cardiology News

Oregon Health & Science Universit...
This study demonstrated that aficamten enhanced HCM patients’ exercise capacity with significant improvement in peak oxygen uptake (pVO2), improvement in limiting symptoms, and decreases in LVOT pressure gradients.
This study demonstrated that aficamten enhanced HCM patients’ exercise capacity with significant improvement in peak oxygen uptake (pVO2), improvement in limiting symptoms, and decreases in LVOT pressure gradients.
This study demonstrated that...
05/14/2024
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MI Therapies
Researchers Find Beneficial Effects of Novel Drug Sacubitril/Valsartan in Management of Myocardial Infarction
05/14/2024

Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute News

Germans Trias i Pujol Research Instit...
Sacubitril/Valsartan is a combination drug that has achieved promising results in reducing the rehospitalisation rates and cardiovascular deaths in patients with heart failure. The present work aimed to evaluate the effects of early...
Sacubitril/Valsartan is a combination drug that has achieved promising results in reducing the rehospitalisation rates and cardiovascular deaths in patients with heart failure. The present work aimed to evaluate the effects of early...
Sacubitril/Valsartan is a...
05/14/2024
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Heart Failure
Impulse Dynamics Surpasses 10,000 Patients Benefiting From Cardiac Contractility Modulation (CCM) Therapy for Heart Failure
05/13/2024

Impulse Dynamics News

Impulse Dynamics News
CCM is the brand name for cardiac contractility modulation—the non-excitatory electrical pulses delivered by the implantable Optimizer device to improve heart contraction. CCM therapy sends unique electrical pulses to the heart cells during...
CCM is the brand name for cardiac contractility modulation—the non-excitatory electrical pulses delivered by the implantable Optimizer device to improve heart contraction. CCM therapy sends unique electrical pulses to the heart cells during...
CCM is the brand name for...
05/13/2024
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