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University Hospitals Now Performing Robotic Heart Bypass Surgeries

DAIC

milla1cf Thu, 06/06/2024 - 21:44 June 6, 2024 — A new, robotic approach to heart bypass surgery is now being offered to patients at University Hospitals ( UH ) with great success. Surgeons manipulate the robotic arms to perform surgery while viewing magnified images from the camera on a console screen.

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Referral Networks, Racial Inequity, and Hospital Quality for Open Heart Surgery

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, Ahead of Print. BACKGROUND:Differences in the quality of hospitals where Black and White patients receive coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery have been documented. Black and White patients were admitted to similar mortality hospitals (3.1%

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Abstract 4140489: COMPARE CABG: A Meta-Analysis of Comparative Outcomes in On-Pump vs. Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.

Circulation

Circulation, Volume 150, Issue Suppl_1 , Page A4140489-A4140489, November 12, 2024. Background:Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) can be performed using on-pump or off-pump techniques. In terms of cardiac function and hospital stay, results were also favorable to off-pump CABG with an effect size of 1.12 (95% CI: 1.05-1.19)

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Abstract 4145425: Patient-Facing Smartphone Application for Perioperative Cardiothoracic Surgery Care Improves Readmission Rates and Patient Satisfaction

Circulation

Circulation, Volume 150, Issue Suppl_1 , Page A4145425-A4145425, November 12, 2024. Introduction:Smartphone applications increasingly are utilized to enhance patient education for optimal implementation of care plans to improve overall outcomes.

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Role of Biomarkers of Myocardial Injury to Predict Adverse Outcomes in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, Ahead of Print. Methods:This study included 1045 patients with HCM who had baseline cTnI and CK-MB measurements at Fuwai Hospital between 1999 and 2019. This study explores the roles of cTnI (cardiac troponin I) and CK-MB in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).Methods:This

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Of Twists and Turns

EMS 12-Lead

A 12 Lead ECG was then acquired: Figure 2 The difficult reality of pre-hospital ECG’s is the absence of continuous telemetry at the bottom of the strip for purposes of discrete morphological juxtaposition in cases such as this. Circulation, 144; 823-839. [3] Circulation, 59 (3); 459-468. [8] Wolters-Kluwer: Philadelphia, PA. [2]

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An athletic 30-something woman with acute substernal chest pressure

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Post by Smith, with short article by Angie Lobo ( [link] ), a third year intermal medicine resident at Abbott Northwestern Hospital Case A 30-something woman with no past history, who is very fit and athletic, presented with 1.5 It was late evening and the patient will be in the hospital overnight with a potentially very unstable LAD lesion.

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