Heart disease, related risk factors may increase risk of early death in patients with dementia
(Wiley) Diabetes, smoking, coronary heart disease, and congestive heart failure may increase the risk of premature death for hospitalized individuals and nursing home residents with dementia. Men with dementia were also more likely to experience early death compared with their female counterparts. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 13, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Infections Drive Emergency Department Visits by the ElderlyInfections Drive Emergency Department Visits by the Elderly
More elderly patients visited emergency departments in the United States for infectious disease-related diagnoses in 2012 than for myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure combined. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines - January 11, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Improving CHF Care With a Clinical Decision UnitImproving CHF Care With a Clinical Decision Unit
How does the development of a Clinical Decision Unit impact congestive heart failure readmission rates? Nursing Economics (Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines)
Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines - January 5, 2016 Category: Intensive Care Tags: Nursing Journal Article Source Type: news
Healing and Curing
For the past eight years I have been conducting monthly seminars for Yale cardiology trainees entitled "Humanities in Cardiology." In these seminars we discuss issues relating to individual patient care, empathy, healing, and bioethics. As medicine becomes more technologic, impersonal, automated, data-driven and computer based, such sessions take on added importance. The seminar series begins each year with a discussion involving one's most memorable patient. Members of the group are asked to discuss the patient that has had the greatest impact on their thinking and approach to patient care. I initiate that first session b...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - December 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Lipo Escultura: Recall - Undeclared Drug Ingredients
Use of product may increase blood pressure and/or pulse rate in some patients and may present a significant risk for patients with a history of coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias, or stroke. (Source: FDA MedWatch)
Source: FDA MedWatch - December 4, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Study: Lower hospitalization rates for St. Jude Medical’s CardioMEMS heart failure monitor
St. Jude Medical (NYSE:STJ) put another brick in the wall of its defense of the CardioMEMS heart failure monitor, which was assailed earlier this year by claims that the device is not cost-effective.
New data from the St. Paul, Minn.-based company’s 550-patient Champion trial, published online yesterday in The Lancet, showed lower hospitalization rates for patients treating using data from the CardioMEMS device.
The trial compared patients treated using CardioMEMS with standard care for heart failure, with a primary outcome of hospital admissions. After the last patient enrolled completed 6 months of follow-up for...
Source: Mass Device - November 9, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Cardiovascular Clinical Trials Patient Monitoring St. Jude Medical Source Type: news
Thiazide may pose some risk for congestive heart failure patients
Thiazide, a popular diuretic for lowering high blood pressure, may not excrete salt as expected in patients with congestive heart failure and or dehydration and should be taken with caution, say researchers. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - November 6, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Danny Strong: High school athlete battles heart failure, gets transplant
As a varsity football and lacrosse player, 17-year-old Simsbury, Connecticut native Danny Deitz was used to pushing the limits of his physical endurance. No doubt the competitive spirit was passed down to him from his father, Terry Deitz, a retired U.S. Navy pilot and two-time Survivor contestant.
But last spring, Danny became concerned about a mysterious decline in his health. Plays that were once second nature became strenuous, and he started to struggle with breathing during activity. Eventually, Danny felt weak just walking up the stairs of his high school. He was in heart failure — and about to face the toughest ...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - October 29, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Erin Horan Tags: Heart conditions Our patients’ stories cardiomyopathy congestive heart failure heart transplant ventricular assist device Source Type: news
Effective Health Care: A Working Model May Be Closer Than You Think
Conversations about the changing health care system in America tend to focus on tools and obstacles: technology, tele-health, universal insurance, finances, politics, medicine and advanced specialized education for nurses and home health aides, but hidden behind all the noise is a serious effort to design "real life" health care models that deliver on some "real people" needs. Key among these needs are safety, independence, aging at home and less time in emergency rooms and hospitals. There are currently about 50 million Americans over age 65 on Medicare, and two-thirds of these individuals are dealing with multiple chron...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Queen Latifah Discusses Helping Her Mother Battle A Major Health Issue
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Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Zoll Acquires Kyma Medical Technologies
ZOLL Medical Corporation, an Asahi Kasei Group company that manufactures medical devices and related software solutions, today announced that it has acquired Tel Aviv, Israel-based Kyma Medical Technologies, Ltd., which develops technologies to measure early signs of congestive heart failure. (Source: Medical Design Online News)
Source: Medical Design Online News - September 21, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Source Type: news
Disparities in Patterns of Health Care Travel Among Inpatients Diagnosed With Congestive Heart Failure, Florida, 2011
(Source: CDC Preventing Chronic Disease)
Source: CDC Preventing Chronic Disease - September 17, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Ventrix launches cardiac scaffolding trial
Cardiac bio-scaffold company Ventrix said it launched a trial of its VentriGel biomaterial scaffold designed to repair cardiac tissue in patients who’ve suffered a myocardial infarction.
The phase 1, open-label trial is slated to enroll patients who’ve experienced their 1st myocardial infarction in the past 3 years and show signs of left ventricular dysfunction, according to the San Diego, Calif.-based company.
“We have demonstrated statistically significant efficacy for VentriGel in our preclinical studies and are hopeful to see the benefits translated to patients. For people who have survived heart at...
Source: Mass Device - September 17, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Cardiovascular Clinical Trials Regenerative Medicine Ventrix Source Type: news
Alina’s story part III: Life after a heart transplant
The moment Alina Siman first opened her eyes after her heart transplant is a moment her parents will never, ever forget. “She saw her dad standing over her,” recalls her mother, Mary, “and she said, ‘Papa, Papa.’”
Alina had been through quite an ordeal over that past year. Born with a congenital heart defect that was surgically corrected in infancy, Alina had been growing and developing normally until the spring of her third year.
The active toddler’s seemingly strong heart began to weaken, and the situation rapidly became worse. Mary brought Alina to the Heart Center at Boston Children’s Hospital, where sh...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - September 17, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Erin Horan Tags: All posts Heart conditions Our patients’ stories Berlin heart congestive heart failure Heart Center Heart transplant program Source Type: news
Study: St. Jude’s CardioMEMS might not be cost-effective
St. Jude Medical (NYSE:STJ)’s CardioMEMS may not be a cost-effective solution for patients with congestive heart failure, according to a study from the non-profit Institute for Clinical and Economic Review in Boston.
The group analyzed the cost effectiveness of St. Jude’s device, which consists of a wireless sensor implanted in the pulmonary artery via catheter to directly measure pressure in the vessel. The device is designed to help physicians manage patients’ medication to control their heart failure before visible changes to weight or blood pressure occur.
In the report, the ICER suggests that the the C...
Source: Mass Device - September 11, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Cardiac Implants Cardiovascular Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) St. Jude Medical Source Type: news
