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 Manually updating clinical guidelines within outdated cardiovascular information management systems (CVIS) is a difficult and timely process.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.

March 11, 2022 – Is cardiac computed tomography (CT) as reliable as catheterization in patients with suspected coronary artery disease? Under the leadership of Charité – Universitätsmediz in Berlin, researchers from 31 European clinical institutions worked together to address this question as part of the DISCHARGE trial. The aim of the trial was to test cardiac CT as a non-invasive alternative to catheterization, the current standard diagnostic test for intermediate-risk patients.

March 11, 2022 – A new study by physicians at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons has identified unique features of MIS-C, a rare but potentially deadly complication of COVID in children, that suggest how the syndrome gets started.

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