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.   

Dark days in Texas: ‘You see COVID, you smell COVID, you hear COVID. Everything’s COVID.’

Reports are arriving of filled hospitals turning away transfers, backlogged ambulances waiting hours to transport patients and shorthanded staffs appealing for relief workers.

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‘Masks work’: Rigid policy minimizes COVID-19 cases among healthcare workers

The researchers tracked infection rates at Boston’s Mass General Brigham health system, which announced a plan to require all 78,000 employees to wear a surgical mask in March.

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New risk score predicts number of cardiovascular-related deaths throughout US

The risk score was found to be considerably accurate, providing results that matched the work of prior researchers.

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Echocardiograms improve treatment for 1 in 3 COVID-19 patients

The team found that approximately one in seven heart scans revealed abnormalities expected to “have a major effect” on the patient’s survival and recovery.

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Eat your vegetables, help your heart: How plant-based diets can boost cardiovascular health

Two separate research teams have highlighted the benefits of limiting meat consumption and adopting a plant-based diet. 

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'A missed opportunity': Statin use low among patients with peripheral artery disease

Researchers tracked statin use among patients with peripheral artery disease, cerebrovascular disease and coronary heart disease.

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Medtronic’s new ICM gains FDA clearance, CE mark approval

The device is roughly one-third the size of a AAA battery.

COVID making hospitals highly attractive hacking targets

One point of easier-than-normal entry is nonclinical employees working from home. Another is providers’ weakened state. Many are strapped for cash and, as a result, stretching resources.