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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 cardiology, heart failure, electrophysiology, hypertension, structural heart disease, use of pharmaceuticals, and COVID-19.

New registry helps hospitals expand outpatient services for heart patients
The initiation of the ACC Ambulatory Surgical Center Registry comes at a time when hospitals are expanding their structural heart programs. The registry is providing valuable details about which patients should stay at the hospital and which can be treated in an outpatient setting.
FDA highlights risks of evaluating blood pressure with unauthorized medical devices
The agency emphasized that many over-the-counter technologies marketed for this purpose have not been properly evaluated.
Joysticks recalled after power wheelchairs move on their own, injuring a patient
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a recall of Mo-Vis BVBA joysticks after a faulty firmware version was linked to the malfunction. Users will need to have their devices upgraded.
FDA approves nasal spray for edema associated with congestive heart failure
The newly approved intranasal loop diuretic can also be used to treat edema in patients with liver and kidney disease.
Cardiologists lead charge for medical device approvals in Europe to be more rigorous
There is a belief among some clinicians that it is too easy for companies to gain CE mark approval for their medical devices. However, a new proposal from the European Society of Cardiology and other groups could help change that.

Almost half the 540-participant cohort is already using at least one form of AI.

The study's authors looked at nearly 3,000 clinical trials related to the ongoing pandemic.

Nostrum Laboratories is at the center of this latest voluntary recall.

No procedure-related deaths were reported, and an absolute LVEF improvement of more than 5% was present in nearly 49% of patients.

The patch harvests energy from each heartbeat, allowing it to operate with no external power source.

“The association between surgeon experience and operative outcomes has been the subject of debate," the researchers explained.

Japan must be doing something in its war on COVID that Western Europe and the United States aren’t doing in their respective homelands.

These findings are especially important, the authors wrote, because they suggest there may be a new way to personalize patient care.