What do you think of when you hear the word simulation? Probably the first thing that comes to mind is flight simulation ...

As a professor of surgery and the director of a mitral valve clinic that performs 300 to 400 valve repairs each year ...

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One of the highest priorities for physicians who diagnose and treat heart failure conditions is to keep their patients ...

It’s not uncommon for a cardiologist at University Community Hospital (UCH) in Tampa to walk about two miles to get his ...

Coronary bypass surgery, a difficult and painful way to repair major damage caused by coronary artery disease, may be on its way out — and it’s a long time coming for researchers like Douglas Losordo, M.D. After all, he’s spent the past 10 years looking into the possibilities of adult stem cell therapy as a viable alternative to the procedure.

Intensive care units are highly dependent on the efficient transfer of physiological data to multiple healthcare providers. In the delivery of healthcare in 2006 there exists a strong rationale for a tight relationship between critical care and information technology (Celi, Hassan, Marquardt, Breslow, & Rosenfeld, 2001).

Blood pressure measurement is a given for patients in the hospital, but for surgical or critically ill patients — in ...