Tag: cardiology
Research Shows Increased Thrombus Burden in COVID-19 Patients With STEMI
There may be a strong signal towards higher thrombus burden and poorer outcomes in COVID-19 patients presenting with STEMI, supporting the need for establishing COVID-19 status in all STEMI cases, according to a study published... read more
Haloperidol for Treatment of Headache in the ED
Headache is a common chief complaint that emergency physicians encounter almost every day and sometimes multiple times in each shift. In fact, headache is the fifth leading cause of patients presenting to the emergency department... read more
Manual of ICU Procedures
Manual of ICU Procedures is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to intensive care procedures. The book is divided into four anatomical sections, and a final miscellaneous section. Section one covers airway and respiratory,... read more
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Emergency Department During COVID-19
Emergency medical services (EMS) is called for a 65-year-old man with a 1-week history of cough, fever, and mild shortness of breath now reporting chest pain. Vitals on scene were HR 110, BP 135/90, SpO2 88% on room air.... read more
RAAS Inhibitors and Risk of COVID-19
The authors concluded that RAAS inhibitors do not increase the risk of COVID-19 requiring admission to the hospital, including fatal cases and those admitted to intensive care units (ICUs), and should not be discontinued... read more
Comparison of Echocardiographic and Invasive Measures of Volaemia and Cardiac Performance in Critically Ill Patients
Static echocardiographic variables did not reliably reflect the volume state as defined by estimates of mean systemic filling pressure. There was no statistical or clinically robust relationship between static echocardiographic... read more
Palliative Care Considerations For Patients With Cardiovascular Disease Under COVID-19
COVID-19 has dramatically altered our world, health care systems and supply chains. Older adults with cardiovascular disease especially those over 80 years suffer disproportionately. This pandemic has stressed the capacity... read more
Cardiologists Join COVID-19 Front Line in Converted Cardiac ICUs
The Mount Sinai Health System in New York is one of many systems in the U.S. that has been adapting in the attempt to care for the influx of patients with known or suspected COVID-19. As elective surgeries are no longer... read more
Respiratory Drive in the ARDS: Pathophysiology, Monitoring, and Therapeutic Interventions
Neural respiratory drive, i.e., the activity of respiratory centres controlling breathing, is an overlooked physiologic variable which affects the pathophysiology and the clinical outcome of acute respiratory distress syndrome... read more
Early Prediction of Sepsis From Clinical Data
Diverse computational approaches predict the onset of sepsis several hours before clinical recognition, but generalizability to different hospital systems remains a challenge. A total of 104 groups from academia and industry... read more
Changes in Anesthetic and Postoperative Sedation-Analgesia Practice Associated With Early Extubation Following Infant Cardiac Surgery
The implementation of an early extubation clinical practice guideline resulted in a reduction in the dose of opioids and benzodiazepines without a change in volatile anesthetic agent used in the operating room. Intraoperative... read more
Predicting Adverse Hemodynamic Events in Critically Ill Patients
The art of predicting future hemodynamic instability in the critically ill has rapidly become a science with the advent of advanced analytical processed based on computer-driven machine learning techniques. How these... read more
Textbook of Neonatal Resuscitation
#1 Best Seller! New 7th Edition! Powerful resource for interactive, simulation-based teaching and learning! The Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) is an educational program jointly sponsored by the American Academy of... read more
Snapshots of Hemodynamics
This new edition reviews recent developments in genetics and molecular biology and new noninvasive measurement techniques that have enabled vast improvements in the measurement and understanding of cardiovascular hemodynamics.... read more
Targeted Temperature Management for Cardiac Arrest with Nonshockable Rhythm
Among patients with coma who had been resuscitated from cardiac arrest with nonshockable rhythm, moderate therapeutic hypothermia at 33°C for 24 hours led to a higher percentage of patients who survived with a favorable... read more
Association Between Titin Loss-of-Function Variants and Early-Onset Atrial Fibrillation
In a case-control study, there was a statistically significant association between an LOF variant in the TTN gene and early-onset AF, with the variant present in a small percentage of participants with early-onset AF (the... read more
Cardiovascular Dynamics in Critically Ill Patients
Although widely used among physicians and frequently present in the literature, the words "stable" and "unstable" to describe cardiovascular dynamics in critically ill patients can have different meanings to different people... read more
