Tips for keeping your heart healthy The heart. It’s that thing that pumps blood through your circulatory system keeping your body alive. It beats about 2.5 billion times over a person’s average life span pushing millions of gallons of blood to every part of…
Read This Issue Now! An Elite Healthcare Resource Guide Cover Story Living Your Best Life After a Heart Attack : Survivors can find a renewed sense of purpose. Features Heart Disease at Day 1: Nurses at Michigan’s Children’s Hospital are educating parents of babies…
Today’s Nurses have a more prominent role in the prevention of cardiovascular disease While February is American Heart Month, or Heart Health Month, the nursing profession is turning its attention towards leadership in cardiovascular disease prevention and awareness 12 months a year. Leading the…
Reduce readmissions with education, follow-up and advanced therapies Approximately 5.1 million Americans are affected by heart failure, and 2.5 million of these patients are women.1 Women are typically older when heart failure develops, and the cause is most often linked to hypertension, diabetes, valvular…
Each year, more than 350,000 cases of cardiac arrest – in which the heart suddenly malfunctions and stops beating properly – occur outside of a hospital setting in the United States. In 2016, only about 12% of those victims survived. The nationwide survival rate…
Cardiovascular disease [CVD], a diagnosis that indicates dysfunction of the heart and/or blood vessels resulting from atherosclerosis, places patients at risk for heart valve dysfunction, arrhythmias, heart attack and stroke.1 Hypertension, hyperglycemia, high cholesterol, tobacco use, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet and being overweight or obese are…
New initiative leads to decreased readmissions and better-prepared clinicians and patients Some 5.7 million Americans have heart failure (HF), a leading cause of hospitalization among people over the age of 65. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, half of those with…
Treating patients with heart disease has never been easy – but, surprisingly, in the past 10 years, it’s gotten even more difficult. “Treating the average cardiac patient is more complicated today than it was a decade ago,” reported David L. Scher, MD, a cardiologist,…
Most people can recall seeing a “flat line.” Whether one saw it on a television show or witnessed it in real life, the quintessential “beep, beep, beep, silence” comes to mind with the term. Such an event is typically followed by a flurry of…
Acute chest pain is the most common diagnosis in the emergency department that requires expeditious and meticulous diagnostic testing and clinical decision-making.1 A diagnosis of chest pain can be challenging to exclude even after careful assessment and evaluation. As a result, patients often are needlessly…