Hospitals' unnecessary coronary stent use costs Medicare $800 million a year, according to a new report from the Lown Institute.
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Fifty hospitals were selected as the top in the nation for cardiac surgery, according to a Healthgrades ranking released Oct. 24.
Advances in technology make it easier to detect and treat cardiovascular diseases, which begs the question: Could medicine reach a point where it could eliminate it?
Advances in technology make it easier to detect and treat cardiovascular diseases, which begs the question: Could medicine reach a point where it could eliminate it?
In U.S. hospitals, unnecessary coronary stents were given to patients every seven minutes between 2019 and 2021, according to a new report from the Lown Institute Hospital Index, resulting in 229,000 unnecessary coronary stents.
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More than 229,000 unnecessary coronary stents were performed at U.S. hospitals from 2019 to 2021 — a rate of one every seven minutes, according to a newly published report from the Lown Institute.
A recent study found prolonged aspirin use might be ineffective, and in some cases harmful, to patients with stents.
A recent study found cardiovascular deaths from heat may increase by 233% in the next 13 to 47 years.
I believe the development that will have the most transformational impact on cardiology in upcoming decades is AI — but there are a number of threshold hurdles that AI must achieve first.
Patients who receive care in a mobile stroke unit may have a better chance of averting a stroke and complete recovery relative to those who receive standard hospital emergency care, new research suggests.