Background: Development of a risk adjustment method is necessary to account for complexity of case mix in pediatric cardiac catheterization procedures so valid comparisons of outcomes can be ...

Long Beach, Calif. – May 2, 2024 – New data from the CALORI Cardiac Catheterization trial shows significant improvement in patient well-being and satisfaction without compromising safety after ...

David Wennberg, John Dickens Jr, David Soule, Mirle Kellett Jr, David Malenka, John Robb, Thomas Ryan Jr, William Bradley, Paul Vaitkus, Michael Hearne, Gerald O'Connor and Robert Hillman Objectives: ...

An eight-year HonorHealth Research Institute clinical trial, using non-surgical techniques, showed 86% of patients with a type of usually fatal low blood pressure known as "structural shock" survived ...

The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) have published the first rigorous, evidence-based, multisociety recommendations to guide the use of ...

The decision not to fast before cardiac catheterization appears safe and patients who hadn't fasted reported "significantly higher" satisfaction versus those who had, a new study found. Photo by ...

As the US healthcare system continues to grapple with the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, and as states begin reopening facilities for elective procedures, healthcare providers are facing ...

Routine catheterization during minor gynecologic surgeries is associated with more than double the rate of UTIs compared with procedures without catheterization. Among 762 patients undergoing minor ...

CMS proposed changing the definition of surgery to account for "surgery-like" procedures in the 2019 proposed payment rule for ASCs and hospital outpatient departments, which could add cardiac ...