Category Archives: Cardiac Surgery

Focusing solely on mortality, a new meta-analysis in a broad range of patients with coronary artery disease shows that PCI is associated with an increased risk of death when compared with CABG surgery. Across 23 trials, including those that included patients with left main CAD and multivessel disease, the analysis revealed that PCI was associated not only with a higher incidence of all-cause mortality, but also with a higher risk of cardiac and noncardiac death compared with surgical revascularization Continue reading →

Healthgrades on Tuesday released its 2021 analysis of the top hospitals in the United States, which evaluated the performance of almost 4,500 hospitals and assessed clinical outcomes for 34 procedures and conditions across 16 specialty areas. For the analysis, called the 2021 Specialty Excellence Award, Healthgrades evaluated U.S. hospitals' performance and assessed the clinical outcomes of 34 procedures and conditions across 16 specialty areas: Based on that evaluation, Healthgrades awarded each hospital between one and five stars to signify their performance when it comes to clinical outcomes across each of the 34 procedures and conditions considered for the analysis Continue reading →

October 23, 2020 | Erin Graham Kilan McCardies first memories are the moments before having heart surgery at Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital Stanford when she was 3 years old. Continue reading →

Four babies died in Adelaide, Australia over the last four weeks after being denied transport to Melbourne because of government COVID-19 restrictions, health officials say. Continue reading →

Coronary revascularization with a bilateral internal thoracic artery (ITA) approach was found to increase the risk for post-operative acute lower limb ischemia in patients with peripheral artery disease, according to a retrospective analysis published in the Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Continue reading →

Baptist Health TAVR Program Is Another First By West Kentucky Star Staff On Oct. 22, 2019, Martin Rains, MD, and Michael Faulkner, MD, structural interventional cardiologists, and cardiothoracic surgeon Nicholas Lopez, MD, successfully performed the first TAVR procedure in the region on an 87-year-old Ballard County man. TAVR is an innovative new procedure for cardiac patients that offers a minimally invasive alternative to traditional open-heart surgery Continue reading →

3D printed surgical models market is expected to gain market growth in the forecast period of 2020 to 2027. Data Bridge Market Research analyses the market to account to USD 601.47 million by 2027 growing at a CAGR of 10.80% in the above-mentioned forecast period. Burgeoning requirement for prototyping test models from the healthcare enterprise and accelerated experimentation and advancement projects in the growing market is foreseen to heighten the 3D printed surgical models growth during the anticipated time frame. Continue reading →

A Covid-19 ward at a hospital in Merseyside. The BMA says hospitals have too few beds and staff to maintain surgery and diagnostic testing for non-Covid illnesses during the pandemic Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA Mass cancellations of routine operations in England are inevitable this autumn and winter despite an NHS edict that hospitals must not again disrupt normal care, doctors leaders have said. Organisations representing frontline doctors, including the British Medical Association (BMA), also criticised NHS England for ordering hospitals to provide near normal levels of non-Covid care in the second wave of the pandemic, and demanded that fines for failing to meet targets be scrapped Continue reading →

Professor Bannon demonstrates the placement of the pump This study provides a strong basis for researchers to progress to human studies implanting the mechanical pump inside the left ventricle of the heart using three-dimensional intracardiac ultrasonography as a guide, and without ever having to transport the patient, said lead authorProfessor Paul Bannon, Professor and Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery in the Faculty of Medicine and Health, Deputy Director of the Hybrid Theatre, Sydney Imaging and Head of Cardiac Surgery at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Continue reading →

Healthgrades has announced its annual list of the top hospitals in the United States, providing data on a range of service lines. Among these arecardiac care, cardiac surgery and coronary intervention. Continue reading →