ATLANTA—More research is needed on the relative costs and benefits of using drug-eluting stents (DES) versus bare-metal stents (BMS) in patients who have experienced a STEMI, according to the results based on the DEDICATION trial presented Tuesday at the ACC.10 conference. Slides»
Boston Scientific has a new cardiac rhythm and vascular (CRV) business unit, which is the combination of its cardiovascular and cardiac rhythm management divisions. The Natick, Mass.-based company highlighted the change at the recent American College of Cardiology (ACC) conference in Atlanta.
ATLANTA--Saphenous vein grafts and radial artery grafts both result in equal graft opening at one year, according to a study presented as a late-breaking clinical trial Tuesday at the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) 59th annual scientific session. Slides»
Written by Gina Narcisi
ATLANTA -- Rob Beanlands, MD, director of the National Cardiac PET Centre and the Molecular Function and Imaging Program at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, sought to convince physicians that FDG PET is among the best choices in imagining modalities for the assessment of myocardial viability, during an imaging symposium at the 59th annual American College of Cardiology (ACC) conference on March 15.
Written by Gina Narcisi
ATLANTA – While quality improvement measures in the inpatient setting may have been described and collected at healthcare practices for years, performance measures in the outpatient setting have not been systematically collected and the current performance in the outpatient setting is unknown, according to a presentation at the “Comparative Effectiveness and Outcomes” session at the 59th annual American College of Cardiology (ACC) conference on March 16.
ATLANTA—A novel cardiac PET tracer that images the sympathetic nervous system for heart failure prognosis has been shown in preclinical studies to provide improved image quality compared with a SPECT heart failure tracer, according to a poster presentation on display Monday at the American College of Cardiology conference.
Written by Justine Cadet
ATLANTA—At one-year in the SPIRIT IV trial, the use of Abbott’s Xience V stent was an “economically dominant strategy” compared with Boston Scientific’s Taxus stent with improved clinical outcomes and lower overall medical costs, according to the interim results of an analysis presented Saturday during CRF's Optimizing PCI Outcomes Symposium, which ran concurrent to the American College of Cardiology (ACC) conference. Slides»
Written by Kaitlyn Dmyterko
ATLANTA—U.S. healthcare provider focus must be changed to hospital performance and outcomes rather than volume and throughput, said Janet Wright, MD, during a presentation at the 59th annual American College of Cardiology (ACC) scientific sessions on Monday.
Written by Kaitlyn Dmyterko
ATLANTA--Improvements in quality of care measurements do not decrease 30-day mortality rates, said Jersey Chen, MD, of the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) scientific sessions Monday.
ATLANTA—Contrary to current guidelines, taking a lenient approach to controlling heart rate in patients with atrial fibrillation appears to be just as good as taking a strict approach and poses no greater risk of death or other serious complications, according to the RACE II trial presented today during the late breaking clinical trials session at the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) 59th annual conference. Slides»
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Fujifilm Medical Systems showcased a 3D advanced visualization package called Synapse 3D for integration into its Synapse cardiovascular informatics portfolio, at the 59th annual American College of Cardiology (ACC) Scientific Session in Atlanta this week.
Spacelabs Healthcare featured the Sentinel, a cardiology information management system, designed to provide hospitals with a paperless workflow, at the 59th annual American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting.
Written by Kaitlyn Dmyterko
Coding and documentation is often the chink in a facility’s armor. Issues such as improper documentation, overcoding and a lack of communication between coders and physicians can often steer facilities into “a coding rut,” said Linda Gates-Striby, CCS-P, compliance manager at the Care Group in Indianapolis, during a presentation Tuesday at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) scientific sessions.
Written by Gina Narcisi
QATLANTA - Originally piloted two years ago as the Improving Continuous Cardiac Care IC3 registry, the recently rebranded PINNACLE registry is the first and only ambulatory registry for cardiovascular conditions in this country, noted William Oetgen, MD, clinical associate professor of medicine at Georgetown University, at the 59th annual American College of Cardiology (ACC) annual conference on March 16.
Written by Kaitlyn Dmyterko
ATLANTA--Referring PCI patients for cardiac rehabilitation can help improve care; however, the rates of referral remain low and large disparities exist between hospital sites, said Krishna G. Aragam, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, during a poster presentation at the 59th annual American College of Cardiology (ACC) scientific sessions.
Written by Justine Cadet
ATLANTA--Women might be more likely to survive a heart attack if they were treated more like men, with increased use of PCI and other invasive techniques, according to a trial presented today during the late-breaking clinical trials session at the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) 59th annual conference. Slides»
Written by Gina Narcisi
ATLANTA--Currently, cardiovascular imaging accounts for 30 percent of all the medical radiation that people receive in the U.S., noted Andrew Einstein, MD, cardiologist and assistant professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, during a symposium at the 59th annual American College of Cardiology (ACC) annual conference on Monday. Einstein also spoke to whether the current levels of radiation are appropriate, as well as strategies for reducing radiation exposure.
Written by Justine Cadet
ATLANTA—The Endeavor stent was found to be inferior to the Cypher stent in routine clinical care patients at 18-month follow-up, according to the all comers SORT OUT III trial presented Monday at the late breaking clinical trials session during the 59 th American College of Cardiology (ACC) conference. Slides»
Written by Justine Cadet
ATLANTA--Ablative intervention was more effective than drug therapy for preventing recurrent symptomatic atrial fibrillation, according to the CABANA trial results presented Monday during a late-breaking clinical trial session at the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) 59th annual conference. Slides»
ATLANTA—A wireless monitoring system that automatically sends information about an abnormal heart rhythm from a device in the patient’s chest to the cardiologist’s office significantly cuts the time between when a problem arises and a treatment decision is made, according to the CONNECT trial presented today during the late breaking clinical trials sessions at the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) 59th annual conference. Slides»
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.