October 26, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance to Abiomed for an all-in-one ...
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
This page contains medical information for clinicians on the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19, also called 2019-nCoV, and now clinically SARS‐CoV‐2). This section includes articles that pertain to clinicians and cardiologists on the virus, new technologies being deployed to fight the virus and clinical information from various sources. Here are direct links for medical professionals to COVID-19 resources from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Daily world-wide statistics on the coronavirus outbreak are available from the WHO Situations Reports. Here is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) frequently asked questions and answers (FAQs) for healthcare providers regarding Medicare payment for laboratory tests and other services related to the COVID-19.
October 26, 2020
Chuck Simonton, M.D., chief medical officer at Abiomed, explains when advanced hemodynamic support is required in COVID ...
October 20, 2020
October 14, 2020 — American College of Cardiology (ACC) Quality Summit virtual meeting Oct. 8-9, 2020, featured several ...
October 14, 2020Sponsored Content
Case Study | Cardiovascular Information Systems (CVIS)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many cardiology departments were faced with the daunting task of supporting inpatient and ...
June 18, 2021
October 14, 2020 — The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) are ...
October 14, 2020
October 14, 2020 – The first outcomes data from the North American COVID-19 ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction ...
October 14, 2020
Ryan Barbaro, M.D., clinical assistant professor, pediatric critical care medicine, University of Michigan, and chair of ...
October 06, 2020Sponsored Content
Feature | Wearables
COVID-19 has posed challenges for physicians whose cardiac patients are at-risk and reluctant to schedule an office ...
December 15, 2020
October 6, 2020 — A new technology being developed by U.S.-based Mesuron Inc. using a superconducting quantum ...
October 06, 2020
October 2, 2020 — Even when a sudden cardiac arrest happens inside a top hospital, where a code blue team is readily ...
October 02, 2020
Deepika Thacker, M.D., a pediatric cardiologist with Nemours Children’s Health System, Wilmington, Del., helped discover ...
September 29, 2020
September 29, 2020 – Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support saved lives in past epidemics of lung-damaging ...
September 29, 2020
Short-term Hydroxychloroquine Use in COVID-19 Patients Does Not Cause Lethal Arrhythmias if Screened
September 25, 2020 — Short-term hydroxychloroquine treatment is not associated with lethal heart rhythms in patients ...
September 25, 2020
September 24, 2020 — Analyzing anonymized patient medical records, University of California (UC) San Diego Health resear ...
September 24, 2020
September 17, 2020 — Debates over whether hydroxychloroquine should be taken to help lessen the duration and impact of C ...
September 17, 2020
September 15, 2020 — The world is facing a global pandemic with unknown implications, but is now well known COVID-19 ...
September 15, 2020
Case is a 6-month-old infant boy admitted to hospital due to respiratory distress then worsened by a pericardial ...
September 15, 2020