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.

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‘Uniform, actionable information’: ACC, SVS to launch new vascular disease registry

The teams behind the ACC's National Cardiovascular Data Registry and SVS Vascular Quality Initiative will collaborate on the project.

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Lung ultrasound before PCI improves in-hospital management of STEMI patients

Adding lung ultrasound to a STEMI patient’s Killip classification leads to a more thorough, effective assessment, according to new findings published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging.

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Patient dies at home after doctors miss evidence of heart defect, including 2 chest x-rays

An inquest into the death of a 24-year-old scaffolder has found that the patient was “failed” by his healthcare providers.

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Machine learning predicts drug cardiotoxicity

Machine learning is playing a key role in predicting all major forms of drug cardiotoxicity, potentially helping reduce late-stage clinical trial failures.

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How telehealth affected cardiovascular care during the pandemic’s peak

As the COVID-19 pandemic escalated in March and April 2020, many cardiologists made the transition to telemedicine. How did this necessary adjustment affect patient care?

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Tele-echocardiography earns high marks as a heart failure treatment

Telemedicine is gaining popularity all over the world, but it makes more sense for some specialties than others.

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World War II veteran, influential cardiologist dies from coronavirus complications

L. Theodore Lawrence Jr., MD, who fought in World War II and went on to treat veterans as a cardiologist, died May 5 due to COVID-19 complications.

 

Cardiothoracic surgeons satisfied with their careers, but risk of burnout remains

Heart and lung surgeons are as satisfied with their jobs as ever, according to new survey results published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

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.