Patient Care

This page includes news coverage of various aspects of patient healthcare, including new technology innovations, what is working, what is not, personalized medicine and remote and telemedicine delivery. Find specific news in the areas of Care DeliveryDigital TransformationPrecision MedicineRemote Monitoring and Telehealth.

Recall targets defibrillation electrodes

CONMED is alerting customers about connector incompatibility issues with defibrillation electrodes in automated external defibrillators in a Class 1 recall.

FDA clears noninvasive FFR-CT for assessing blood flow

The FDA paved the way for the use of software that uses CT data to calculate fractional flow reserve (FFR) to diagnose coronary artery disease.

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Sister to Sister calls it quits

Sister to Sister will close down at the end of the year and donate its teaching materials and intellectual property to a partnering heart institute.

Return to basics in ambulance cardiac arrest care, study suggests

A review of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases found that patients who received basic life support in the ambulance had better survival and neurological performance compared with patients given advanced life support.

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Under statin guidelines, prescriptions rise and testing drops

Statin use could increase by at least a third under 2013 joint guidelines on cholesterol, according to a study published Nov. 19 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

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Learning from trials

One lesson rings clear from the recent American Heart Association (AHA) scientific session and other conferences: It is really hard to successfully complete randomized controlled clinical trials these days.

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Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes improve with increased AED use

Perhaps not so shocking, but true: When infrastructure for early response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest improves, so do outcomes, according to a study published online Nov. 15 in Circulation.

Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. awarded Innovative Technology designation for Dose Tracking System at Novation Innovative Technology Expo

Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. announced that its Dose Tracking System (DTS) was awarded the coveted Innovative Technology designation by Novation at its Innovative Technology Expo on Sept. 10, 2014, at the Irving Convention Center, Irving, Texas.

Around the web

Several key trends were evident at the Radiological Society of North America 2024 meeting, including new CT and MR technology and evolving adoption of artificial intelligence.

Ron Blankstein, MD, professor of radiology, Harvard Medical School, explains the use of artificial intelligence to detect heart disease in non-cardiac CT exams.