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Earlier menopause and reduced cardiac function may negatively affect brain health

Women face a higher risk of developing both cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease than men. Cardiovascular disease ...
Becker's ASC

Study: Dobutamine Increased Heart Rate, Cardiac Index in Septic Patients

A study in the Journal of Critical Care aimed to characterize the cardiovascular responses to dobutamine in patients with septic shock, according to MDLinx. The hypotheses surrounding the experiment ...
Medscape

Pediatric Index of Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care Mortality

Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2015;16(9):885-886. A few thoughts are worth considering in the evaluation of PICSIM. First, the physiological variables in the PICSIM score provide only a small improvement in ...
Medscape

Cardiac Outcomes Similar in ED Patients With Presyncope or Syncope

Patients with presyncope and those with syncope in the ED have similar 30‑day serious cardiac outcomes, although patients ...
TCTMD

Treating the Ineligible: Patients With Low Cardiac Index Treated With Atrial Fixation TMVR

Receive the the latest news, research, and presentations from major meetings right to your inbox. TCTMD ® is produced by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation ® (CRF). CRF ® is committed to igniting ...

Pulse oximeter index offers non-invasive guides for fluid therapy

A prospective study conducted at Avicenna University Hospital (Cadi Ayyad University) suggests that the plethysmographic ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Rapid Recovery of Donor Hearts for Transplantation after Circulatory Death

We report a method for the recovery of hearts for transplantation from deceased donors after circulatory death that obviates the need for thoracoabdominal normothermic regional perfusion or ex situ ...