Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor had the lowest heart attack readmission ratio between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2023, according to CMS data published Feb. 19.
Author: Elizabeth Gregerson
The new Lorraine and Bill Dodero Limb Preservation Center at Cleveland-based University Hospitals' Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute will be led by the institute's president, Mehdi Shishehbor, DO, PhD.
After rising for a decade, the cardiac arrest mortality rate in the U.S. is beginning to fall, according to a study published March 9 in The American Journal of Cardiology.
Forty-six percent of cardiologists are experiencing depression, burnout or both, according to a Medscape survey published March 7.
A team at Pittsburgh-based UPMC Presbyterian Hospital performed a heart and kidney transplant without the use of blood products for the first time at the hospital.
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A team at Pittsburgh-based UPMC Presbyterian Hospital performed a heart and kidney transplant without the use of blood products for the first time at the hospital.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago has appointed Juan Ibla, MD, as division head of cardiac anesthesiology.
In January, Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health appointed Joseph Bavaria, MD, as executive director of the Bruce & Robbi Toll Heart and Vascular Institute. He was also named chair of the department of cardiac surgery at Thomas Jefferson University's Sidney Kimmel Medical…
According to a recent survey of cardiologists, 59.8% have experienced orthopedic injury due to hazardous cardiac catheterization laboratory working conditions. An analysis comparing the survey results to data from 2014 was published March 4 in JSCAI.
"It's kind of like that quote in "Field of Dreams," 'If you build it, they will come,'" Tom Nguyen, MD, told Becker's of the robotic cardiac surgery program at the Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute. "It's pretty clear…