And a heart attack can be quickly followed by a stroke. An acute stroke can make it difficult to perceive or communicate the symptoms of a heart attack, In the days after a stroke, you would be ...

PCI performed preventively in patients with high-risk vulnerable plaques was found to be superior to optimal medical therapy alone in preventing a serious cardiac event, according to the results of ...

Efforts to address these barriers in current dispatch protocols may improve recognition of POHCA. Additional research is needed on how to improve pediatric cardiac arrest recognition. A qualitative, ...

BALTIMORE — Children born with heart defects have a new space to get treatment. On Friday, the University of Maryland Medical Center held a ribbon cutting for a new pediatric cardiac lab and operating ...

The Canadian Journal of Cardiology (CJC) is the official journal of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society (CCS). The CJC is a vehicle for the international dissemination of new knowledge in ...

What is cardiac catheterization for children? Cardiac catheterization is a procedure in which a long, flexible tube (catheter) is put into a blood vessel. The doctor then guides the catheter into the ...

The following are key points to remember from a 2024 American College of Cardiology (ACC) expert consensus decision pathway (ECDP) on strategies and criteria for the diagnosis and management of ...

Medical physics techniques play a key role in all areas of cardiac medicine – from the use of advanced imaging methods and computational modelling to visualize and understand heart disease, to the ...

Jul 26 2024 This Week in Cardiology Health and income, high BP in the hospital, and more on subclinical AF and when to use anticoagulants are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week ...

Medics confirmed he had gone into cardiac arrest - meaning his heart had stopped beating properly and was unable to do its job of pumping blood around the body. Urgent resuscitation was required ...

More than 12 years ago, AMA member Ramin Manshadi, MD, read about two young athletes in his hometown of Elk Grove, California, who had sudden cardiac death during their summer soccer practice. Having ...