Cardiac Emergencies Journal Articles

• Ventilation and Postoperative Pulmonary Complications Might a bundled intraoperative protective ventilation strategy help reduce the risk for postoperative pulmonary complications after cardiac surgery?
  Anesthesiology, November 15, 2019
• Undocumented Patients in the Emergency Department Undocumented immigrants face many barriers to healthcare access, but ED providers are in a unique position to address their medical needs.
  Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health, November 06, 2019
• Kidney Injury Is Not Prevented By Hydration Alone This editorial comments on a recent study regarding the impact of hydration on acute kidney injury events among patients undergoing TAVI.
  European Heart Journal, November 06, 2019
• A Standardized Cardiac Athletic Screening for NCAA Athletes This paper describes a standardized screening method for the detection of cardiac conditions among young athletes.
  Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health, November 04, 2019
• Adenosine and the Cardiovascular System A new review explores the impacts of adenosine on the heart and cardiovascular system and discusses its potential as a clinical treatment.
  American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs, November 01, 2019
• Administration of Iloprost and Eptifibatide in Septic Shock Is dual therapy with iloprost and eptifibatide a safe and effective option that might help improve outcomes among patients with septic shock?
  Critical Care, October 28, 2019
• The Difficult Relationship Between Uric Acid and CVD While levels of serum uric acid have shown strong associations with the future risk of CVD, controversy about the cardiovascular safety of febuxostat compared with allopurinol persists.
  European Heart Journal, October 18, 2019
• A Deep Learning Model for Real-Time Mortality Prediction A new machine learning-based model may be an important new tool for the real-time prediction of mortality in pediatric ICUs.
  Critical Care, October 14, 2019
• Should We Do 'Whatever It Takes' Prevent Cardiac Arrest? Controversy remains as to whether some subsets of cardiac arrest survivors are best treated with drug therapy alone, without need for ICD implantation.
  European Heart Journal, October 14, 2019
• FoCUS in the Pediatric Perioperative Setting Can focused cardiac ultrasonography imaging add value to pediatric perioperative care? This article explores clinical applications, technical aspects, and interpretation of FoCUS findings in children.
  Anesthesia & Analgesia, October 07, 2019
• Current Difficult Airway Management--Not Good Enough! Have updated practice guidelines and refined airway management devices and techniques improved patient outcomes in difficult tracheal intubations? A new study finds there's much room for improvement.
  Anesthesiology, October 04, 2019
• Development and Maintenance of a Pleural Disease Service Might the inclusion of a specially trained pleurologist to a pleural disease team help improve the management of these patients?
  Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, October 03, 2019
• Clinical Examination for Mortality Prediction in the ICU Can a clinical examination accurately predict mortality among critically ill patients? How does it compare with other prognostic risk scores?
  Critical Care Medicine, October 02, 2019
• Anesthetic Management of Emergency Surgery in ARDS Patients Anesthetic management of patients at risk of and with ARDS presents a significant challenge. How should these patients be managed when requiring emergency surgery?
  BMC Anesthesiology, September 25, 2019
• Management of Cardiogenic Shock Complicating MI Cardiogenic shock remains the most common cause of death in patients with acute myocardial infarction. What are the current best options for the management of cardiogenic shock complicating AMI?
  European Heart Journal, September 25, 2019
• Risk of HF and Cardiac Conditions After Early Breast Cancer Women treated for early stage breast cancer are at heightened risk for atherosclerotic heart disease. More reason to promote heart health in this population?
  Journal of the National Cancer Institute, September 12, 2019
• Fentanyl Overdoses Among Persons Who Thought it was Cocaine Unintentional synthetic opioid exposure caused multiple deaths in this cluster of cases in California.
  Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, August 30, 2019
• Pseudomonas poae-Associated Septic Transfusion Reaction A fatal red blood cell transfusion traced to the bacteria Pseudomonas poae highlights the important need for screening for these organisms.
  Emerging Infectious Diseases, August 27, 2019
• Hospitalization and AF: Can't Get Out of This World Alive The author of this commentary takes issue with the findings of a new study which concludes that hospitalization is a robust marker for death in patients with AF.
  Europace, August 26, 2019
• Perceptions of Television-Based Education in the ICU How do patients and providers feel about television-based patient education in the ICU? Is it useful?
  American Journal of Critical Care, August 22, 2019