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...grant is a continuation of programs funded at MGH for the past five years, and Dr. Edgar Haber, chief of the cardiac unit at the hospital said yesterday he hopes the additional money and the new researchers from Brigham Hospital will lead to "a better understanding of coronary disease and how we can help coronary patients...
About 40 human heart transplants are performed annually in the United States, mostly at the Stanford Medical Center in California. Dr. Stuart W. Jamieson, chief resident of the cardiac program at Stanford, said the operations cause "very little" diversion of resources and that 65 percent of their transplant patients survive the first year of the operation...
...When you add this to the six- or eight-week recuperation period, you see that transplant patients often spend ten to 12 weeks in the hospital-an awful lot of which is in the intensive care unit," Collins said, adding, "The Average ICU stay of a cardiac patient is 48 hours...
Current research projects in primary-care medicine include improving decision-making for emergency-room patients with chest pains; studying the cost-effectiveness of the standard practice of taking blood cultures of hospital patients with fevers; and determining the appropriate hospital stay for cardiac patients in an intensive-care unit...
...recorded by the police, because they were so certain it would produce a confession. Filartiga has heard the tape, heard his son cry out that he had nothing to confess, listened while they accelerated the electric shocks, administered through his fingertips and genitals, until Joelito suddenly had a cardiac arrest and died...