Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain David Daniels, M.D., an interventional cardiologist with Sutter West Bay Medical Group and structural heart section chief of Sutter’s Advanced Heart & Vascular Service Line, presented results of the international ENCIRCLE clinical trial at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics conference in San Francisco, Calif. The findings were simultaneously published in The Lancet
MedPage Today) — Having an automatic external defibrillator (AED) in a private home does appear to increase the likelihood of survival in people who experience certain types of cardiac arrest, but having them in all private homes is not currently…
Congenital heart block, sometimes referred to as cardiac neonatal lupus, is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition that affects babies born to mothers with specific autoantibodies—called anti-SSA/Ro antibodies—which can attack the fetal heart via its electrical conduction system, leading to a slower heart rate. Most surviving infants with congenital heart block eventually require a pacemaker
TOPLINE: Adults aged 40 years or older presenting to the emergency department (ED) with presyncope (near-fainting) or syncope (fainting) had similar rates of 30-day serious cardiac outcomes (5.2% vs 4.7%), although physicians estimated a higher risk for patients with syncope during their ED assessments. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a secondary analysis of a prospective…
People who have a cardiac arrest in their own homes have similar neurological outcomes regardless of socioeconomic background, according to research presented at the European Emergency Medicine Congress…
Credit: Pixabay from Pexels A new initiative by The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) proposes a new framework and call to action for managing cardiogenic shock (CS), establishing lactate clearance potentially as the standardized, time-based marker of patient trajectory to improve outcomes in one of the deadliest cardiovascular emergencies. “SCAI Door to Lactate
MedPage Today) — A shift toward supraglottic airway (SGA) device use for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) resuscitation among lower-performing emergency medical service (EMS) agencies was associated with improved outcomes, a cross-sectional…
Ooops… 404 Error Sorry, the page you were looking for could not be found. The page might have been removed, had its name changed, or become temporarily unavailable.
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Blood pressure matters at all ages. Children with higher blood pressure at age 7 may be at an increased risk of dying of cardiovascular disease by their mid-50s, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association’s Hypertension Scientific Sessions 2025, held in Baltimore, September 4–7, 2025. The study is
MedPage Today) — Preschoolers with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were often prescribed medication shortly after diagnosis, despite guidelines that recommend 6 months of behavior therapy before pharmaceutical interventions, according…