Sepsis Hospitalization and Risk of Subsequent Cardiovascular Events in Adults

Sepsis Hospitalization and Risk of Subsequent Cardiovascular Events in Adults

Adult sepsis survivors experience an increased hazard of major cardiovascular events compared to survivors of a non-sepsis hospitalization. 254,241 adult sepsis survivors were matched to adult survivors of non-sepsis hospitalization... read more

Adult Sepsis Hospitalization and Risk of Subsequent Cardiovascular Events

Adult Sepsis Hospitalization and Risk of Subsequent Cardiovascular Events

Adult sepsis survivors experience an increased hazard of major cardiovascular events compared to survivors of a non-sepsis hospitalization. 254,241 adult sepsis survivors were matched to adult survivors of non-sepsis hospitalization... read more

Advanced Hemodynamic Monitoring: Basics and New Horizons

Advanced Hemodynamic Monitoring: Basics and New Horizons

This book describes how to monitor and optimize cardiovascular dynamics using advanced hemodynamic monitoring in perioperative and intensive care medicine. The book outlines basic skills of hemodynamic monitoring, different... read more

Cardiac Anesthesia: The Basics of Evaluation and Management

Cardiac Anesthesia: The Basics of Evaluation and Management

This concise book meets the market need for an accessible and up-to-date guide on understanding and managing cardiac anesthesia patients. It reflects the continual evolution of the very complex field of cardiac anesthesia.... read more

COVID-19 and Anticoagulation: Full Dose or Prophylactic Dose?

COVID-19 and Anticoagulation: Full Dose or Prophylactic Dose?

In CRITICALLY ILL patients with COVID-19, an initial strategy of therapeutic-dose anticoagulation is not associated with a greater probability of survival to hospital discharge or a greater number of days free of cardiovascular... read more

Prediction of Neurological Outcomes in Patients Treated With ECPR

Prediction of Neurological Outcomes in Patients Treated With ECPR

This prognostic study develops and validates a prediction model for neurological outcomes of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with shockable rhythm treated with extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation. A... read more

Association Between Benzodiazepine Use With or Without Opioid Use and All-Cause Mortality in the US

Association Between Benzodiazepine Use With or Without Opioid Use and All-Cause Mortality in the US

This study found a significant increase in all-cause mortality associated with benzodiazepine use with or without opioid use in comparison with SSRI use. Benzodiazepine and opioid co-treatment, in particular, was associated... read more

Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes with Empagliflozin in Heart Failure

Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes with Empagliflozin in Heart Failure

Among patients receiving recommended therapy for heart failure, those in the empagliflozin group had a lower risk of cardiovascular death or hospitalization for heart failure than those in the placebo group, regardless of... read more

EPSS vs. Fractional Shortening for LV Function – Is EPSS Good Enough?

EPSS vs. Fractional Shortening for LV Function – Is EPSS Good Enough?

In a recent issue of the Journal of Ultrasound through AIUM, Weekes et al. (and Kendall et al in AM J EM) talk about a hot topic that emergency and critical care physicians hold dear to them – the EPSS , or E-point septal... read more

Impact of Cardiovascular Risk Profile on COVID-19 Outcome

Impact of Cardiovascular Risk Profile on COVID-19 Outcome

This study investigates the extent of cardiac comorbidities and complications among hospitalized patients with COVID-19. Cardiovascular complications are frequent among COVID-19 patients, and might contribute to adverse... read more

Mortality and Cardiovascular and Respiratory Morbidity in Individuals with Impaired FEV1 (PURE)

Mortality and Cardiovascular and Respiratory Morbidity in Individuals with Impaired FEV1 (PURE)

The associations between the extent of forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) impairment and mortality, incident cardiovascular disease, and respiratory hospitalisations are unclear, and how these associations might vary... read more

Memory of a heart attack is stored in our genes

Memory of a heart attack is stored in our genes

Both heredity and environmental factors influence our risk of cardiovascular disease. A new study shows now that the memory of a heart attack can be stored in our genes through epigenetic changes.... read more