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Two recent studies suggest that rapid TIA evaluation and treatment can reduce stroke risk.
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Using a simple clinical screening tool, patients considered at high risk for death in this closed medical ICU received a basic palliative care consultation. Those with unmet needs received a full consultation with ongoing intervention from the palliative care team. This process shortened ICU length of stay without affecting mortality rates or discharge disposition.
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Refugees resettling to the united states and other developed countries frequently suffer from infectious diseases, and can pose diagnostic or therapeutic dilemmas for health care providers in their new homes.
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In this issue: Stop smoking drug Chantix rates stronger warning from FDA; Type 2 diabetes surgery on the way?; Vytorin study inconclusive; Influenza A virus found resistant to Tamiflu; FDA actions.
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This remarkable study is a population analysis of a huge cohort of children in Denmark who were followed, since 1930 or later, for the presence of coronary heart disease (CHD), and had all mandatory annual examinations at schools in Copenhagen. The study analyzed data from 277,000 children, aged 7-13.
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CryoCor (San Diego) reported the publication of a European study of atrial fibrillation (AF) patients treated with its Cardiac Cryoablation System to evaluate the role of atrial flutter (AFl) in the recurrence of AF and the effectiveness of an ablation strategy focused on isolating the pulmonary veins to treat the AF.
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St. Jude Medical (St. Paul, Minnesota) reported FDA clearance of its EnSite Fusion Registration Module, new software designed to aid in creating detailed heart models to facilitate the diagnosis and delivery of therapy for complex abnormal atrial heart rhythms, including atrial fibrillation (AF).
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ATS Medical; Cambridge Heart; Coherex Medical; Escalon Medical; FlowCardia; Heartscape Technologies; InterCure; TherOx
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Catheter ablation reduced the number of shocks delivered to patients who have defibrillators implanted after heart attacks, concluded a study published in late last month in the "New England Journal of Medicine".
