The New ACSM Recommendations for Preventing Cardiovascular Events at Fitness Facilities

Recommendations for cardiovascular screening, staffing, and emergency policies at health/fitness facilities.

The message from the nation’s scientists is clear, unequivocal, and unified: physical inactivity is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and its prevalence is an important public health issue. New scientific knowledge based on epidemiological observational studies, cohort studies, controlled trials, and basic research has led to an unprecedented focus on physical activity and exercise. The...

Preventing Peripheral Intravenous Line Infections: Recommendations for Healthcare Facilities

Intravascular catheters are indispensable tools in acute care, but with the benefits come the risk of local or systemic Healthcare Acquired Infections (HAIs). In fact, more than 250,000-500,000 intravascular-related bloodstream infections occur in the United States each year with resulting mortality rates of 12%–25%. (Maki, Kluger & Crnich, 2006; CDC, 2002). While bloodstream infections related...

Preventing cardiovascular events with empagliflozin: at what cost?

Vitamin D and statins: action in preventing cardiovascular events.

INTRODUCTION Statins are widely used compounds in hypercholesterolemic patients reducing the risk of cardiovascular (CV) events. As a 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitors (statins) are extremely effective at reducing low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and have been demonstrated to reduce mortality and the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) in a number of large pri...

Social Recommendations for Events

Due to an abundance of available events, selecting the most interesting events and deciding who to invite to attend these events becomes increasingly difficult. This paper describes the Outlife recommender, which assists in finding the ideal event by providing recommendations based on the user’s personal preferences. For each event recommendation, the Outlife recommender suggests a group of fri...