Physician experience related to accurate identification of third heart sound
...author Andrew Michaels, MD, assistant professor of cardiology at UCSF and co-director of the Cardiac Catheteriza... level of training and experience: board-certified cardiology attending physicians, cardiology fellows, internal medicine residents and internal medicine interns....Cardiac examination skills appear similar among medical students, resident and faculty physicians
...al students, 289 were resident physicians, 85 were cardiology fellows, 131 were physicians (including faculty members and private practitioners) and 37 were others (including nurses, researchers and administrators). Participants took the test at one of 16 sites in the United States and Venezuela between July 2...Let me hear your body talk: UH scientists mine biomedical data
.... Early detection is essential in the practice of cardiology to reduce the number of fatalities occurring annually due to unpredicted heart attacks and strokes. In biometrics, the group has developed a radical new approach by combining information from visible and infrared spectrum cameras to obtain a unique ...Low-income patients reduce heart risk via Internet
... of Health and headed by Alfred Bove, MD, chief of cardiology at Temple University School of Medicine and Hospital. Findings will be presented at the American College of Cardiology meeting. Designed to help bridge what Bove terms the "medical divide" between treatment and outcomes for upper- and lower income p...Doctors in training improve skills via virtual patient
...ne. According to co-author Archana Saxena, M.D., a cardiology fellow at Temple, accuracy rates improved significantly, from 26 percent to 69 percent, among the residents who listened to each sound 500 times via electronic stethoscopes. In previous studies, Barrett found that intensive repetition vastly increase...New generation of cardiac interventions, therapies optimize heart disease care
..." said Matthias E. Pfisterer, M.D., a professor of cardiology and head of the cardiology division at University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland. "This is an important question, as these events...Could a simple test save Medicare hundreds of millions?
...the benefit to patients," says lead author and U-M cardiology fellow Paul Chan, M.D., M.Sc. "But a very expensive device can be cost-effective and still not affordable to society, if the condition it treats is highly prevalent. Our study demonstrates the potential impact of using additional factors to aid decis...ECG transmission from ambulance cuts time to direct clot removal
...arch 13, 2006, by Duke Clinical Research Institute cardiology fellow George Adams, M.D., during the 55th annual scientific sessions of the ACC in Atlanta. His study is one of five finalists for an ACC Young Investigator Award. The team achieved this significant time savings by directly linking EMTs with cardiol...Refinements and innovations enhance safety, effectiveness
...ano Di Sciascio, M.D., a professor and chairman of cardiology and director of the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Campus Biomedico, University of Rome, Italy. "Our study suggests that statins can help prevent such arrhythmic episodes." The ARMYDA-3 study enrolled 200 patients who were scheduled for coron...Drug-eluting and absorbable stents push interventional frontiers
...s," said Christian Spaulding, M.D., a professor of cardiology at Assistance Publique-Paris University Hospitals, Paris, France. "Sirolimus-eluting stents are not currently recommended in the acute phase of myocardial infarction, since no clear data from a randomized trial are available. The use of sirolimus-el...Age, sex, racial disparities in heart attack hospital transfer patterns
...f that care that needs to be addressed," said Duke cardiology fellow Jeffrey Berger, M.D., who presented the results of his analysis March 12, 2006, during the 55th annual scientific sessions of the American College of Cardiology in Atlanta. "Our analysis found that in the U.S., patients over the age of 64 admi...Studies highlight global risks of vascular disease, probe creative new treatments
....D., M.S.c., F.A.C.C., a professor of medicine and cardiology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada...." said Philippe Gabriel Steg, M.D., a professor of cardiology at Universit Paris-7 and director of the coronary care unit at Hpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Assista...Growth-factor therapy improves endothelial cell production and mobility in arterial disease
...dicine at Emory University School of Medicine, and cardiology fellow Veerappan Suramaniyam, MD. "This research demonstrates that growth factor therapy can improve endothelial dysfunction and suggests that endothelial progenitor cells, by enhancing repair, may contribute to endothelial healing," said Dr. Quyyum...SCAI scientific sessions attract world-renowned invasive/interventional cardiologists
...ynecor, LLC, and professor emeritus of medicine in cardiology at Duke University. Dr. Gregg W. Stone is a professor of medicine at Columbia University, director of Cardiovascular Research and Education at Columbia's Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy, and vice-chairman of The Cardiovascular Research Fou...European Union's 169 billion bill for cardiovascular disease
...n-line (Wednesday 22 February) in Europe's leading cardiology journal, European Heart Journal[1]. Dealing with CVD cost every man, woman and child in the EU 230 in healthcare costs[2], took up 12% of all the healthcare expenditure, accounted for 126 million hospital bed days, 268.5 million working days lost an...Dutch study finds four in 10 heart attacks go unrecognised
...ublished (Tuesday 14 February) in Europe's leading cardiology journal European Heart Journal[1], which is the journal of the European Society of Cardiology. The authors, from the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, say their findings suggest that the role of ECGs i...55th Annual ACC Scientific Session ushers in breakthroughs in cardiology research
...rch efforts that have proven so valuable in moving cardiology forward." Press briefings on the late-breaking and regular clinical trials research from ACC.06 will take place regularly Sunday, March 12 through Tuesday, March 14. For more information, please visit acc.org or contact Amy Murphy at 301-581-3476 ...ACC Innovation in Intervention: i2 Summit 2006
...11-14. It will provide a forum for interventional cardiology experts to discuss new developments within the field as well as a focused venue to train, educate and guide their international colleagues in intervention and cardiac care. Innovation in Intervention: i2 Summit 2006 is designed specifically for thos...CNIC commits 5 million Euros to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
...i Medical Center in New York, home of top minds in cardiology today. We look forward to growing the partnership." The relationship between Dr. Fuster and the CNIC is not a new one. This past June, Spain's Ministry of Health asked Dr. Fuster to lead the research effort at the CNIC. With a strong allegiance to S......ssistant professor of medicine and director of the cardiology clinic at the University of Chicago. "The good news is that a decrease in sexual function could provide an additional warning sign for the presence of heart disease." The study focused on 221 men who had been referred to cardiologists at the Univers...