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...heart may be fickle, but the science of keeping it healthy can be even more so. Every year experts come up with new insights into how to keep the cardiac system ticking. Sometimes the eurekas are justified, sometimes not. The annual meeting of the American Heart Association in Florida last week was so full of news it was hard to keep the breakthroughs straight. Here are the highlights...
Living through a heart attack has always been something of a crapshoot, and now that seems almost literally true. According to a new study, patients experiencing cardiac arrhythmia have a better chance of surviving if the crisis occurs in a casino or even an airplane than in a doctor's office. The reason? Most doctors just aren't equipped to handle the problem...
Although Rogers, EPIHC's chairperson, admitted the skits were exaggerated, one audience member called out that he had seen some "bizarre things" in his practice as a cardiac surgeon in South Carolina...
...placed in an ambulance. At the doctor's insistence, the ambulance proceeded slowly so as not to aggravate the injuries. Thus it took some 40 minutes to reach the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital instead of the usual 10 minutes. On arrival at 2:05 a.m., the princess was in cardiac arrest. Doctors opened her chest and found massive internal bleeding from the ruptured vein. Although they sutured the wound and administered heart massage, no cardiac activity could be re-established. She was pronounced dead...
...other institution. Most of them have been major operations that usually involve extensive blood loss and transfusions: liver resections, hip replacements, abdominal aortic aneurysms, hysterectomies and brain surgery. "From a medical point of view, there are no technical barriers to performing bloodless surgeries," says Dr. Sharo Raissi, a cardiac surgeon at Brotman Medical Center, one of a dozen hospitals in Los Angeles that offer such services. "There is no limit as to what can be done for patients, from open-heart surgery even to transplants...