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Last evening I took my 3 girls to the mall for dinner. What a trip, but that is another story! Anyway, as we wandered around looking at the 155 options for food, my middle daughter said, “I want a subway sandwich. That is good for me, right”?
I smiled and marveled in my […]
“The key to the success of our intervention was taking time with patients to create a regular schedule for taking their medicines that fit their lifestyle,”
On the heels of yesterday’s post, education about cardiac medications is so important for insuring successful outcomes. Do you know your pharmacist well? Do you feel like him/her […]
Here goes the nurse in me again. Do you think that health care professionals provide effective medication and diet education when preparing our patients for discharge. Are the answers given in a way that allows you to understand what is being presented? Can a new cardiac patient possibly understand 5 new medicines […]
“I never thought I would get to see this mother’s day,” Stacey says.
What we don’t go through for our children! On this day, a Pennsylvania mommy celebrates what she thought might not ever come, her first mother’s day. Stacey Doyle delivered her first born son, Owen, last May. The days that […]
An apple a day will keep the doctor away. Apparently that is not a true statement for patients that have pacemakers. It seems that ipods could serve as interference in the electrical currents of pacemakers.
The study revealed that three different types of interference can occur between an iPod and a pacemaker. Two types, […]
What came first, the chicken or the egg? That is a question I often ask myself while “taking care of” my cardiac patients. As a nurse, my mind often wanders to the thought of, “what if they had taken better care of themselves years ago”? Now, I know that genetics and family […]
An engineer in California got the gift he was waiting for. Mike Iwuchukwu was placed on the heart transplant list 5 years ago. He had a condition called noncompaction syndrome, where the heart appears almost sponge like.
This past Monday, officials at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in California announced that Mr. Iwuchukwu received his second […]
For many years aspirin has been the staple in the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease. But what happens if over time patients begin to develop a resistance to the first coined “wonder” drug? Will there be an increase in healthcare visits as well as financial ramifications? My guess… yes!
Resistance over […]
Researches have identified yet another genetic pattern that would increase a persons likelihood of suffering from heart disease by double fold. Heart Disease is the number 1 leading cause of death in the United States.
In one of two studies reported yesterday in the journal Science, researchers who compared DNA of 17,000 heart patients […]
Thanks to more effective medicines and treatments, death among heart failure patients has halved over the last 6 years. Also, incidence of stroke and heart attack after discharge fell over the first half of this decade.
— The death rate for patients admitted with a severe heart attack, where the arteries are completely blocked, […]
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