Category Archives: Cardiac Nursing

A cardiac specialist nurse has received a national charity award for her work supporting people with heart and circulatory diseases in Aberdeenshire. Liz Douglas was announced as the winner of the Healthcare Hero accolade at the British Heart Foundations (BHF) Heart Hero Awards, held virtually on Tuesday night Continue reading →

An inspirational north-east mother who has raised tens of thousands of pounds to combat heart disease has been honoured with a prestigious national charity award. Continue reading →

The Cardiac Monitoring Advanced Technologies Market is expected to exceed more than US$ 29 Billion by 2022; Growing at a CAGR of more than 4.5% in the given forecast period. Continue reading →

This article, the first in a six-part series, gives an overview of the lymphatic system, which circulates lymph fluid around the body to drain tissue, transport fat and activate immune responses This article is the first in a six-part series about the lymphatic system. It discusses how the system is structured and how it functions, focusing on tissue drainage, fat transportation and activation of immune responses. It also examines the causes, symptoms and treatment of oedema Continue reading →

If youre having a heart attack, AMITA Health Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet is the place you want to go. Thats the message Deborah Ziech, 70, of Joliet, wants people to know Continue reading →

Providing the best access to high quality care is at the core of every initiative, project and service delivered by Northwest Community Healthcare (NCH). Rooted in its mission to improve the health of the communities it serves and to meet individual health care needs, it's no surprise that NCH won the Daily Herald Readers' Choice Best of the Best -- Best Hospital Award in 2020 Continue reading →

Newswise The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) has released a new version of its popular online orientation course for progressive and critical care nurses, with a variety of options to support individual learning needs. Essentials of Critical Care Orientation 4.0 (ECCO) is now available in full-course format or stand-alone modules for nurses who work in intensive or progressive care. Full courses are designed for nurses new to or transitioning from other areas of the hospital into intensive or progressive care, while modular courses focus on specific content to refresh or broaden a nurses skill set. Continue reading →

Following PCI, only about half of patients have their LDL cholesterol measured and, of those who do, fewer than 60% have levels below 70 mg/dL, according to new registry data from Ontario, Canada. This reflects a gap in knowledge in terms of lipid management and statin management, according to researchers. A lot of our patients after angioplasty, they kind of feel that the doc fixed my lesion, I'm good, I'm going to take an aspirin and my dual antiplatelet therapy, and they kind of ignore everything else, senior author Dennis Ko, MD (Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto, Canada), told TCTMD. Continue reading →

Meet 13 local medical heroes who are fighting to save lives as the pandemic rages on By Caralee Adams and Mike Unger | Published: 2020-09-14 08:12 Rarely, if ever, does Dr. Marissa Watts doff her scrubs (a term she recently learned) and go straight home when her 12-hour shift officially ends at 7 p.m. Instead, the hospitalist at Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center in Rockville usually embarks on a newfangled version of rounds Continue reading →

SINGAPORE - A faculty member from the National University of Singapore's Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies (NUS Nursing) has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), one of the highest honours in the nursing profession globally. Associate Professor Wang Wenru is the only one from Singapore to receive the fellowship this year Continue reading →