Unrecognized Cardiovascular Emergencies Among Medicare Patients

Cardiovascular Emergencies

1Epidemiology and Biostatistics Center, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan 2Division of Cardiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan 3Division of Cardiology, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, Singapore 4Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima, Japan 51st Propedeutic Surgical Department, AHEPA Universit...

[Cardiovascular emergencies].

The diagnosis and management of acute heart failure requires knowledge of hemodynamics beyond that offered by the traditional vital signs of blood pressure and heart rate. In the past, an advanced determination of hemodynamic status required the insertion of a catheter directly into the heart. As a result of the significant patient morbidity and mortality associated with this invasive procedure...

Treatment of cardiovascular emergencies.

Cardiovascular Oncologic Emergencies.

Oncologic emergencies can present either as a progression of a known cancer or as the initial presentation of a previously undiagnosed cancer. In most of these situations, a very high degree of suspicion is required to allow prompt assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. In this article, we review the presentation and management of cardiovascular oncologic emergencies from primary and metastatic ...

Emergencies in cardiovascular surgery

Methods In emergency situation, preoperative patient work-up for cardio-vascular surgery is quite different from the elective setting. Since 03/2000 till 01/2012 we have analyzed a consecutive series of 12 172 cases out of which 2214 underwent emergency procedures (18.19%). The most frequent problems requiring urgent intervention were thoracic aortic aneurysms (448 cases; 20.24%); coronary arte...