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*COVID-19* Cardiac Arrest Deaths at Home in NYC
Have Increased By a Startling 800%
There's been a 50% or more drop in the number of people receiving emergency treatment for heart attacks in many hospitals. Physicians have been speculating why this might be. Now frightening numbers from New York City's overwhelmed emergency medical system may provide part of the answer: hundreds of people a day have been dying of cardiac arrest in their homes, an eight-fold increase over the same period last year. |
*COVID-19* Doctors Say: Don't Sit Out a Heart Attack at Home
Since the onset of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, hospital emergency departments have seen a precipitous drop in the number of heart attack patients presenting for treatment. Not getting treated means heart muscle dies. What should patients do? |
*COVID-19* Medtronic Has Ramped Up Ventilator Production
Medtronic has already increased its production of ventilators by 40% in the wake of COVID-19 and is "on track" to achieve twice the normal output. Manufactured in Galway, Ireland, Medtronic's workforce numbers 250. The company is doubling that and reconfiguring its plant to operate 24/7. |
Interview with Tejas Patel & Samir Pancholy
In December 2018, Dr. Tejas Patel performed the world's first teleroboticU coronary angioplasty. Stationed 32km from the hospital and the patients, he did five PCI procedures, all successful. In this interview Dr. Patel and his colleague, Dr. Samir Pancholy, discuss telerobotic PCI. |
FDA Fast Tracks Shockwave IVL Device Review
Shockwave's unique coronary calcium modification system has received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's "Breakthrough Device Designation," meaning that when the device comes before the agency for approval, it will receive a priority review, potentially speeding its availability to the interventional cardiology in the U.S. |
STOPDAPT-2: Is a Month of DAPT Plus a Year of Clopidogrel Safe and Effective?
Dr. Hirotoshi Watanabe discusses his team's recent study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which demonstrated that 1 month of DAPT followed by clopidogrel monotherapy, compared with 12 months of DAPT with aspirin and clopidogrel, resulted in a significantly lower rate of a composite of cardiovascular and bleeding events, meeting criteria for both noninferiority and superiority. (posted in collaboration with TCROSS NEWS) |
FDA Approves Resolute DES for Use in Chronic Total Occlusions
The FDA today approved an expanded indication for Medtronic's family of Resolute zotarolimus-eluting coronary stents: use in the treatment of de novo chronic total occlusions (CTO). This approval includes all Resolute DES devices, including the Resolute Onyx™ and Resolute Integrity™ DES. |
The First EVAR
The field of endovascular repair and intervention has grown exponentially since the 1st endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (EVAR) was performed by Dr. Juan Parodi in 1990 in Buenos Aires. It took a while to be accepted, but today the endovascular approach is the preferred procedure to repair an AAA. This is due to the advances in medical device design and the dedication of physicians to this less invasive non-surgical approach. |
Drug-Eluting Stent Expansion Chart
A useful chart for the cath lab wall, this chart, created by Dr. Ajay Kirtane and the teams at NY Presbyterian/University of Columbia Medical Center, shows the nominal and post-dilatation expansion limits for four widely-used drug-eluting stents: Synergy (Boston Scientific), Resolute Onyx (Medtronic), Xience Sierra (Abbott Vascular), and EluNIR (Medinol/Cordis). |
Neoatherosclerosis Five Years After BVS Implantation
Dr. Noriaki Moriyama discusses the recent study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, which showed outcomes observed at five years after implantation with the Absorb Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold (posted in collaboration with TCROSS NEWS) |
Medtronic's Intrepid™ Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement (TMVR) System
The Intrepid TMVR system integrates self-expanding, dual-stent technology with a tissue valve to facilitate catheter-based implantation without the need for open-heart surgery. The Intrepid is compressed inside a hollow delivery catheter and is inserted between the ribs to enter the heart. The new replacement valve is expanded directly into the malfunctioning mitral valve. |
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