-
Translation of full informed consent forms into other languages can be a costly and time-consuming endeavor for researchers, particularly if there are few non-English speaking participants in a study.
-
Academic and medical research institutions and their IRBs often have to deal with study proposals that fall between research and quality improvement (QI).
-
-
-
A large health system IRB found that incomplete study submissions were clogging up the IRB review system, resulting in long waits up to three months for approval.
-
-
Effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is partly dependent on the adequacy of manual chest compressions, but they are limited by interruptions and less than ideal conditions such as during transport.
-
ECG early repolarization patterns were long thought to be benign normal variants until recent papers purported to show a relationship between these patterns and the risk of malignant arrhythmias and cardiac death.
-
At this time, ventricular fibrillation (VF) early after acute myocardial infarction (MI) is not an indication alone for an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy.
-
Practice guidelines recommend mitral valve repair or replacement for severe ischemic mitral regurgitation (MR) that is causing symptoms refractory to best available medical therapy.
