September 14, 2020 – At the height of the COVID-19 (SAR-CoV-2) pandemic in April, a 14-year-old boy was admitted to the ...
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.
September 14, 2020
September 11, 2020 — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched two of three adaptive clinical trials ...
September 11, 2020
September 8, 2020 - Heart patients hospitalized with COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) can safely continue taking angiotensin ...
September 08, 2020Sponsored Content
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, many cardiology departments were faced with the daunting task of supporting inpatient and ...
June 18, 2021
September 3, 2020 — Why so many COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) patients get blood clots (thrombosis) remains uncertain. But ...
September 03, 2020
With COVID-19 forcing all medical conferences to go virtual in 2020, Juan F. Granada, M.D., CEO of the Cardiovascular ...
August 01, 2020
August 21, 2020 — According to a report published by Research Dive, the rising number of patients suffering from atrial ...
August 21, 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
August 19, 2020 — From point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) that has been a key technology during the COVID-19 pandemic, to ...
August 19, 2020
COVID-19 is creating a new generation of cardiac patients. With heart disease already the leading cause of deaths ...
August 17, 2020
August 17, 2020 - The number of people coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is rising with more cases in the U.S. There ...
August 17, 2020
News | Cardiovascular Education | Dave Fornell, Editor
All medical conferences moved to a virtual meeting format due to COVID-19 this year, and there has been apprehension ...
August 14, 2020
Todd Villines, M.D., FACC, FAHA, MSCCT, explains some of the discussion on CT used for COVID-19 patients at the Society ...
August 11, 2020![Part of a CDC inforgraphic on MIS-C based on reports from U.S. cases March-May 2020.[2] The full inforgraphic can be found at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/infographic-mis-c.html #COVID19](/sites/default/files/styles/content_feed_medium/public/MIS-C_cases_stats_CDC_1.jpg?itok=5OOZLidV)
August 7, 2020 — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced research funding to encourage the development of ...
August 07, 2020
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | Dave Fornell, Editor
August 5, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) this week for ...
August 05, 2020
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | Dave Fornell, Editor
July 28, 2020 — The use of cardiovascular computed tomography angiography (CCTA) is one of the areas that has seen a ...
July 28, 2020
Devi G. Nair, M.D., FHRS, director of cardiac electrophysiology, St. Bernards Heart and Vascular Center, Jonesboro, Ark ...
July 28, 2020