Your heart works 24 hours a day pumping blood to the body. More than 1 million people in the U. S. have a heart attack every year. However, the good news is that with the advancement of medicine and good care, more and more people are surviving heart attack and leading healthy active...
Some people who have had heart attacks die because hospitals around the United States are not using simple, proved treatments such as giving patients aspirin, a new study has found. A research team led by Dr Gerald T O'Conner of the Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire, found...
Speedy care after heart attack key to survivalHealthDay/Washington Post
and single-center randomizedtrialshave supported these findings. Influenza vaccination is recommended for patients with heart disease but is not part of standard hospital care following an acute
“In the 70’s, health-care professionals were telling patients not to move for three months after a heart attack. Our findings suggest that stable patients need not wait a month to start exercising in a cardiac-rehabilitation setting,” said Clark. ...
Focus groups revealed five inherent conflicts that affect home health care clinicians' interactions with family caregivers: (a) Services often depend on caregivers' participation, but the home care system does not give them formal status... Hokenstad,A. - 《Home Health Care Management & Practice》...
Dr Ekblom said the study provided additional evidence for healthcare professionals and policy makers to systematically promote physical activity in heart attack patients. He said: "Exercising twice or more a week should be automatically advocated for heart attack patients in the same way that they re...
Where you go for heart attack care may matter for both your short- and long-term risk of death, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Thenovel findings, published October 30 inNature,emphasize the importance of increased sleep after a heart attack, and suggest that sufficient sleep should be a focus of post-heart-attack clinical management and care, including in the intensive care units, where sleep is frequently disrupted, along...
The conventional wisdom is that medical and dental care are related, but less is known about how dental care relates to health outcomes after acute incidents like heart attacks.