March 13, 2022 – People with a congenital heart defect who were hospitalized with COVID-19 infection were at higher risk for severe illness or death than those without a heart defect, according to new research published in the American Heart Association’s flagship, peer-reviewed journal Circulation.

March 13, 2022 – Philips has announced new research evaluating mobile cardiac outpatient telemetry (MCOT) as a first-line diagnostic ambulatory monitoring solution with post-cryptogenic stroke patients.

March 12, 2022 – Charles D. Fraser, Jr., M.D., an internationally recognized congenital heart surgeon, has been named the inaugural Executive Director of the new Institute for Cardiovascular Health, a collaboration between Ascension Texas and The University of Texas at Austin, including its Dell Medical School. The announcement marks the launch of a fully integrated heart care model in the Texas capital.

March 12, 2022 – German-based endovascular simulator specialist CATHI has launched the CATHIS RHC 2, the first in a new generation of Right Heart Catheter (RHC) simulators. 

March 11, 2022 – The Department of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai has established a new division to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can be applied to help solve complex medical problems and enhance clinical care.

March 11, 2022 – Bittium will join the 65th Congress of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology and Functional Imaging (DGKN) on March 10 - 12, 2022. At the conference, Bittium presents its next-generation continuous EEG (cEEG) monitoring solution for acute and intensive care.

March 11, 2022 – Cardiology Consultants of Philadelphia (CCP) — the region’s largest and most extensive cardiology practice — has launched a state-of-the-art heart disease prevention program — the CB4 Prevention Program. The practice has locations at more than 36 offices in five counties, making it uniquely qualified to reach and potentially save the highest number of patients possible.

March 11, 2021—Clinical guidelines are regularly updated among all aspects of medicine. Within cardiology, organizations like the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association update clinical guidelines almost every year.1 2 However, this poses a problem for clinicians. Manually updating clinical guidelines within outdated cardiovascular information management systems (CVIS) is a difficult and timely process.

March 11, 2022 – Patients who survive a heart attack together with sudden cardiac arrest are at increased risk of dying within six years following hospital discharge.

This is the conclusion of new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

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