During Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis, volunteer health care professionals quickly improvised a new system, often without institutional authorization, to continue to care for terrified patients.
A dying patient in a state psychiatric hospital has no access to a DNR order that would make the process as peaceful as possible — as the notorious Bedlam casts a shadow over mental health care to ...
The placement of a central venous line is an essential technique in the treatment of many hospitalized patients. This video will demonstrate the placement of a central venous catheter in the internal ...
Whether catheter-directed thrombolysis improves clinical outcomes in patients with intermediate-high–risk pulmonary embolism, ...
Approximately one half of patients undergoing transcatheter aortic-valve implantation (TAVI) have concomitant coronary artery ...
Patients are at increased risk for recurrent ischemic events after an acute coronary syndrome event. Milvexian, an oral ...
Nonobstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a common condition that is associated with substantial morbidity and no ...
Pulmonary hypertension that is caused by left heart disease and is associated with heart failure may be driven by sympathetic ...
Atherosclerosis may begin in early adulthood and remain clinically silent for decades before cardiovascular disease manifests. Although silent atherosclerosis is associated with cardiovascular ...
The effectiveness and safety of statins for the primary prevention of cardiovascular events and the extension of disability-free survival among older adults remain uncertain. We conducted a ...
The effect of clopidogrel monotherapy as compared with extended dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) with clopidogrel and aspirin ...
Stroke is a severe and common complication of atrial fibrillation. Anticoagulation with vitamin K antagonists or with direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) prevents the majority of strokes in ...