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 ...

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Feature | Kim Phelan

In the microscopic world of arterial plaque, the only positive thing about positive remodeling is that physicians can ...

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Feature | Larry Sieb

Magnetic navigation technology to direct and digitally control catheter and guidewire devices along complex paths within ...

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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 ...

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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.

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Feature | Mark Paquin

Are drug-eluting stents destined to fail? In Part 1 of this investigation, the connection of DES and thrombogenicity was ...

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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 ...

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Feature | Ryan Hiett

Technological advancements over the years have forced most OR methods used in 1964 into dusty, old history books and ...

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Feature | Namrata Sundaresan

Blood pressure measurement is a given for patients in the hospital, but for surgical or critically ill patients — in ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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).

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Technology

A new spot blood pressure monitoring product from Medwave can now be sold and marketed in the U.S. Primo is a handheld ...

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DAIC: What are some of the scenarios — decisions or investments — in which a hospital might want to consider doing a ...

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