Hospital gets approval for emergency cardiac care
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STAMFORD, Conn. -- Stamford Hospital is the latest medical center to get state approval to perform emergency angioplasty on heart attack patients.
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Federal regulators approved use of an artificial heart yesterday, marking the first time a mechanical device has been made widely available to replace a failing human organ.
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Atlanta's Piedmont Hospital in March became the first institution in the U.S. to be audited for compliance with the security rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Here's what health officials wanted to know.
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The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved for use the first totally implantable artificial heart under a program that will make the complicated, $250,000 device available for as many as 4,000 people.
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A medical scan can spot which young people risk sudden death because of a weak heart.
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New medical guidelines allow experienced nurses to decide on resuscitating patients.
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Workers at an inner-city hospital where a woman died last month on the floor of an emergency room have received training on their responsibilities, officials said.
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Frailer heart patients could benefit from an advance in keyhole surgery carried out for the first time in the UK.
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The first artificial heart won U.S.  approval Monday for use as a temporary measure to keep alive  patients on the verge of death while they wait for live organs  to become available for transplants.
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NEW YORK  - After a heart attack, treatment  with angioplasty or bypass surgery during the initial hospital  stay appears to improve survival compared with a more delayed,  conservative approach, new research shows.
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More than 98 percent of U.S. hospitals  are now reporting quality-of-care data for treating heart  attack, heart failure and pneumonia, the Centers for Medicare  and Medicaid said on Thursday.
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Medicare has agreed to expand coverage by one-third for implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) -- devices used to steady hearts that beat irregularly -- to 500,000 patients, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.
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When Joan Irvine's husband collapsed in July from heart problems, he was rushed to Montgomery General Hospital. There, he was admitted not by the family's primary care doctor but by a hospitalist, one of a growing breed of physicians specializing in inpatient care.
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CHICAGO -- Hundreds of hospitals around the country are joining the most ambitious project ever undertaken to give faster emergency room care to people suffering major heart attacks.
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The implantable device won U.S. approval Monday for use as a temporary measure to keep alive patients on the verge of death while they wait for transplants.
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When patients with heart disease are brought to a hospital, why not identify suggest a screening for their family as well?
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THERE WASN'T a whisper of opposition last week at the state Public Health Council as Massachusetts General Hospital presented its plan to replace some old buildings with a $498 million complex that will include a larger emergency department, 71 surgical suites, and 150 new beds. The council approved the plan unanimously, but the expansion raises the question of whether the ...