Is CRT response rate all about patient selection?

Patient safety: what is it all about?

Patient safety is a major concern in health care systems worldwide. Patients with serious conditions, multimorbidity, and with intense and fragmented health care utilization, like end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients, are at increased risk for suffering adverse events. In this chapter, the fundamental terms and concepts of patient safety are introduced. Essential epidemiological data relatin...

Role of MRI in patient selection for CRT.

Magnetic resonance imaging has great potential for aiding in the selection of patients who will respond to CRT. MRI is the only imaging tool that can simultaneously assess mechanical dyssynchrony, determine the amount and location of myocardial scar tissue, and map the location of cardiac venous anatomy-three important factors in predicting a patient's response to CRT. The goal of this manuscri...

What is Mathematics all about?

1) The facility with numbers and calculations, 2) The art of avoiding unnecessary calculations, 3) Memorizing formulas and theorems, 4) Understanding and finding proofs, 5) Solving problems with well-described procedures, 6) Solving problems for which there are no well-described procedures, 7) Understanding abstract mathematical concepts, 8) Creating new mathematical concepts, and clarifying an...

What is Cochrane all about?

What is the Cochrane Library and how can it be used? The Cochrane Collaboration is a loose knit organisation of people located throughout the world who are dedicated to providing the work necessary to produce the Cochrane Library. The library is an attempt to present research findings in a way that can be easily accessed by clinicians. It is named after Archie Cochrane, a British epidemiolo-gis...

What is metabolomics all about?