Medicare, CMS, calls for cancelling or postponing all elective or non-essential medical procedures, test and surgeries due to COVID-19. #COVID19 #SARcov2 #coronavirus #cardiology
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March 20, 2020 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced March 18, 2020, that all elective ...

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An interview with Ehtisham Mahmud, M.D., FSCAI, chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, executive director of ...

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This is a quick overview of clinical data on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as of March 17, 2020. It offers a brief ...

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March 17, 2020 — The Trump Administration today announced expanded Medicare telehealth coverage that will enable ...

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Interview with Thomas Maddox, M.D., MSc, FACC, the chairman of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Science and ...

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Interview with Mike Stone, M.D., an emergency physician at Northwest Acute Care Specialists in Portland, Ore., director ...

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March 16, 2020 — The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) issued a statement March 13 recommending in novel coronavirus ...

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March 16, 2020 — The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) released a new expert consensus document on ...

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Interview with Navin Kapur, M.D., FAHA, FACC, FSCAI, executive director, The CardioVascular Center for Research and ...

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Philips Healthcare's new Fiber Optic RealShape (FORS) technology creates real-time 3-D imaging of anatomy and devices inside the body using light, rather than X-rays. FORS uses light traveling through hair-thin fiber optics inside special FORS enabled catheter and guidewires.
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Philips is working on a prototype cath lab angiographic imaging system that might be able to replace the current X-ray ...

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Apple created a stir when it announced in 2018 that its Apple Watch Series 4 was the first consumer health and fitness ...

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March 10, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the SynCardia Systems 50cc temporary Total ...

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The European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) electrophysiology (EP) annual meeting cancelled due to coronavirus. #COVID19 #coronavirus #2019nCoV
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March 10, 2020 — Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has claimed another large cardiology meeting, the European Heart Rhythm ...

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Valentina Kutyifa, M.D., Ph.D., University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, N.Y., is doing research in the BIO-LIBRA Study to determine it ICD or CRT-D devices work better in men or women with heart failure often present with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy.
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Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for women in North America, and women with heart failure often ...

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ACC issues document outlining COVID-19 Implications For Patients With Underlying Cardiovascular Conditions. The COVID-19 mortality rate for patients cardiovascular disease is 10.5 percent based of data from Chinese hospitals since the outbreak. COVID-19 fatality rates for patients with comorbidities are higher than the average population, but cardiac patients had the highest death rate. #COVID19 #coronavirus #2019nCoV #SARS‐CoV‐2
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March 9, 2020 — The American College of Cardiology (ACC) is offering updates on the clinical impact of novel coronavirus ...

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