BACKGROUND Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) assess patients during early phases of deterioration to reduce patient morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate the ability of earlier medical intervention by a RRT prompted by clinical instability in patients to reduce the incidence of and mortality from unexpected cardiac arrest at our hospital. PATIENTS AND METHODS A nonrando...

Death is a rare but devastating complication of chronic total occlusion (CTO) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). We examined the clinical characteristics and procedural outcomes patients who died periprocedurally in Prospective Global Registry for Study CTO Intervention (PROGRESS-CTO, NCT02061436). Of 12,928 underwent PCI between 2012 2022, 52 (0.4%) during index hospitalization. Patient...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether therapeutic hypothermia after hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) in neonates increases the risk of cardiac arrhythmia during intervention. DESIGN A meta-analysis was conducted using a fixed-effect model. Risk ratios, risk differences, and 95% confidence intervals, were measured. DATA SOURCES Studies identified from the Cochrane Central Register of Controll...

introduction brugada syndrome (brs) is an autosomal-dominant inherited cardiac arrhythmia that occurs due to sodium channelopathy and increases sudden cardiac death due to episodes of polymorphic ventricular tachyarrhythmia. it is characterized by st-segment elevation in the right precordial leads and right bundle branch block (rbbb) pattern. we herewith present a case of brugada syndrome with ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effects of sex and anthropometry on clinical outcomes in patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). MATERIALS AND METHODS From three randomized trials (REal Safety and Efficacy of 3-month dual antiplatelet Therapy following Endeavor zotarolimus-eluting stent implantation, Impact of intraVascular UltraSound guidance on outcomes of Xience Prime sten...

BACKGROUND When using (99m)Tc sestamibi for myocardial perfusion imaging, increased splanchnic activity creates a problem in the visual and quantitative interpretation of the inferior and infero-septal walls of the left ventricle. We sought to determine whether the administration of diluted lemon juice or full-fat milk would be effective in reducing interfering infra-cardiac activity and theref...

INTRODUCTION Patients with colorectal cancer report ongoing physical and psychological impairments and a high proportion of these patients are overweight, insufficiently active and high-risk drinkers, putting them at risk of poor recovery and risk of recurrence and comorbidities. A challenge is implementing sustainable and effective rehabilitation as part of routine care for this group. METHO...

In pregnant women with heart disease, complications can arise due to the haemodynamic burden of pregnancy and to hypercoagulation. Most problems can be managed medically, but sometimes cardiac surgery or percutaneous intervention is unavoidable. Cardiac surgery has similar maternal mortality to that outside pregnancy, but foetal mortality and morbidity are considerable. Measures to reduce the r...

Care of patients after cardiac catheterization and/or percutaneous coronary intervention is largely the responsibility of nurses. The identification of risk factors for vascular complications from these procedures is important for the development of protocols to prevent complications. This article describes a retrospective, descriptive, and correlational study of 11,119 patients who underwent c...

introduction: an attack of acute myocardial infarction (mi) poses the threat of great damage to cardiac tissue. operative therapeutic modalities such as coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) may enhance myocardial perfusion in high-grade coronary vasculature occlusions. it has been shown previously that low-level laser therapy (lllt) significantly reduces infarct size following induction of my...