Clinical

This channel newsfeed includes clinical content on treating patients or the clinical implications in a variety of cardiac subspecialties and disease states. The channel includes news on cardiac surgery, interventional cardiologyheart failure, electrophysiologyhypertension, structural heart disease, use of pharmaceuticals, and COVID-19.   

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Veterans experience worse PCI outcomes at community hospitals than VA facilities

There was a 33% increase in a patient’s hazard for mortality if they received care at a community hospital.

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Major U.S. airport launches onsite COVID-19 testing, with results in less than 1 hour

It's believed to be the first such facility to implement a rapid testing program and is powered by Dignity Health St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco and GoHealth Urgent Care.

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Blood pressure medications boost COVID-19 survival rates

The study's authors explored data from more than 28,000 patients. 

Nursing homes, assisted living centers expect COVID-caused closings

Unless there’s a turnaround from the high costs and low revenues of the COVID healthcare economy, more than 70% of nursing homes and 64% of assisted living communities will not be here a year from now.  

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TAVR outcomes similar after conscious sedation and general anesthesia

The new research out of Germany suggests both strategies are safe and effective for patients. 

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A historic first: Researchers grow functional heart model the size of a sesame seed

The cardiac models were created using human stem cells. Each one is able to beat in less than a week. 

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How population density can influence TAVR utilization, patient outcomes

Patient access to TAVR centers is often limited in rural areas where resources are in short supply.

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Severely obese patients four times as likely to die from COVID-19

A patient's risk of death is also greater when they are male or 60 years old or younger.