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Hospices obviously depend on community physicians for referrals and to sign medical orders, while Medicare regulations define essential roles for the hospice medical director as a core member of the team. But inconsistent or insufficient medical leadership of some hospice teams, coupled with occasional conflicts and misunderstandings with referring physicians, have left a lingering perception in some quarters that hospice is “anti-physician.”
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The pattern of restenosis in sirolimus-eluting stents is focal and mainly inside the stent.
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Data do not support early implantation of prophylactic ICDs in patients with nonischemic cardiomyopathy.
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A new classification of blood pressure in adults is suggested, with normal blood pressure (BP) as < 120 mm Hg and < 80 mm Hg.
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The Women's Health Initiatives (WHI) was halted 1 year ago, but fallout from this landmark study continues. The study was designed to identify the risks or benefits of estrogen plus progesterone vs placebo in healthy postmenopausal women.
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Since aldosterone is extracted by the heart following acute myocardial infarction (MI), this group of investigators from Japan hypothesized that blocking its action may attenuate postinfarction remodeling.
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Cardiac resynchronization therapy improves quality of life and New York Heart Association Functional class in patients with moderate-to-severe heart failure, wide QRS durations, and indications for an ICD.
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The combined infusion of AVP and NE was superior to NE alone in catecholamine-resistant vasodilatory shock.
