Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of Americans, outstripping the second leading cause, cancer, by approximately 90,000 deaths, according todata from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC). The mostcommon type of heart diseaseis coronary artery disease (CAD), which red...
Prognostic Significance of Heart Rate Variability in Post-Myocardial Infarction Patients in the Fibrinolytic EraThe GISSI-2 Results Prognostic significance of heart rate variability in post-myocardial infarction patients in the fibrinolytic era. The GISSI-2 results. Circulation 1996;94:432... G Zuanetti...
Dr. Hahn is a consultant for Edwards Lifesciences; has received grant support from Philips Healthcare; and has received honoraria from Boston Scientific and St. Jude Medical. Dr. Pibarot holds the Canada Research Chair in Valvular Heart Diseases, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Ottawa, ...
A 5-minute supine electrocardiogram recording was used to calculate heart rate variability indices, including power in the high-frequency (a marker of parasympathetic activity) and low-frequency (a marker of combined sympathetic and parasympathetic activity) range (eMethods in Supplement 1). Cognitive...
Differences were located on the ward, intensive care unit and operation room but not in the cath-lab. All types of costs particularly human resource costs were elevated in the SECA group. Incremental costeffectiveness ratio was calculated as 822 per survival. Sensitivity analysis demonstrated that ...
The purpose of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of Rounds attendance on the psychological distress, work engagement, compassion and self-reflection of healthcare staff. Methods We used a pre-post control design to assess the effect of Rounds attendance across 10 UK healthcare ...
heart rate. and arterial blood gases and pH the experiments were started. measured before, at the end of the period of asphyxia. and 1 h Experimental Protocol and ERG. Animals were randomly later were nearly identical to those of animals from which ERG assigned to receive an i.v. injection...
Protection against infarction afforded by precon- ditioning is mediated by A1 adenosine receptors in rabbit heart. Circulation 1991; 84: 350–6. 27 Thornton JD, Liu GS, Olsson RA, Downey JM. Intravenous pretreatment with A1-selective adenosine analogues protects the 858 Http://www.chinaphar....
The CS-PEG-LK13 assembly also displayed a superlative biocompatibility in antimicrobial therapy because no detectable damage was found in the histological investigation in main organs of the liver, kidney, heart, spleen, and lung. However, liver cells around the central vein were disorderedly ...
Acute outcomes, QoL (36-Item Short Form Health Survey [SF-36]), European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) score, and 12-month outcomes were evaluated after a single PVI-only cryoballoon ablation procedure. Methods Study design The CRYO4PERSISTENT AF (Cryoballoon Ablation for Early Persistent ...