Feature | Mark Paquin
Although implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) have been around for nearly 20 years, they gained notoriety in 2001 when Vice President Dick Cheney became a high-profile patient who underwent the implantation procedure.
May 22, 2006
Case Study
Although healthcare budgets are tight, needs are expanding. Clinical facilities are continuously looking for ways to ...
May 22, 2006
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A trend is emerging in cardiovascular image and information systems designed for the cath lab and was apparent on the ...
May 22, 2006Sponsored Content
Feature | Thrombectomy Devices
Venous thromboembolism (VTE), and pulmonary embolism (PE) in particular, are among the most complex and dangerous acute ...
June 01, 2026
Feature | Mark Paquin
The drug-eluting stent (DES) market is a multibillion dollar business in the U.S. — and it's estimated that over three ...
May 22, 2006
Feature | Kim Phelan
In the microscopic world of arterial plaque, the only positive thing about positive remodeling is that physicians can ...
May 22, 2006
Feature | Larry Sieb
Magnetic navigation technology to direct and digitally control catheter and guidewire devices along complex paths within ...
May 22, 2006Sponsored Content
Feature | Cardiac Imaging
Sponsored Content — According to the American Heart Association, cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in ...
March 13, 2026
Feature | Kim Phelan
It's almost like taking a stab in the dark, but ablating one or more arrythmias within the human heart is a moment when ...
May 22, 2006
Feature | Kim Phelan
I only just heard the term “positive remodeling” for the first time last fall, and I assumed it was something, well, positive, like a self-mending process of some sort. But in the cardiac context of arterial remodeling, which refers to the build-up of plaque in the coronary arteries, positive remodeling is the worse of two types.
May 22, 2006
Feature | Mark Paquin
Are drug-eluting stents destined to fail? In Part 1 of this investigation, the connection of DES and thrombogenicity was ...
May 22, 2006Sponsored Content
Feature | Nuclear Imaging
Cardiac PET/CT represents a major advancement in cardiovascular diagnostics, offering significant clinical and ...
November 12, 2025
Feature | Jeffrey J. Fine, Ph.D., M.S., and Michael C. Foster, M.D., FACC, South Carolina Heart Center, Columb
An asymptomatic 75-year-old woman with a history of coronary artery disease, angioplasty, coronary artery bypass ...
May 22, 2006
Feature | Ryan Hiett
Technological advancements over the years have forced most OR methods used in 1964 into dusty, old history books and ...
May 21, 2006Feature | Namrata Sundaresan
Blood pressure measurement is a given for patients in the hospital, but for surgical or critically ill patients — in ...
May 21, 2006Sponsored Content
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SPONSORED CONTENT — Studycast is a comprehensive imaging workflow system that allows healthcare professionals to work ...
June 17, 2025
Feature | Ellen Hansen, director of Clinical Informatics Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Electronic medical information improves patient safety by providing immediate and complete access to complex patient ...
May 21, 2006
Feature | Ryan Hiett
It’s like a never-ending battle — that’s how Lena Napolitano, M.D., describes the recent and sharp rise in nosocomial ...
May 21, 2006
Feature | J. Steven Hata, MD, director, Division of Critical Care, Department of Anesthesia and Kristy Walker
Intensive care units are highly dependent on the efficient transfer of physiological data to multiple healthcare providers. In the delivery of healthcare in 2006 there exists a strong rationale for a tight relationship between critical care and information technology (Celi, Hassan, Marquardt, Breslow, & Rosenfeld, 2001).
May 21, 2006