Category Archives: Cardiac Surgery

More than 1000 French doctors, including 600 heads of service, have announced their "unprecedented and difficult decision" to resign from their administrative roles from 14th January 2020 if the "inadequacy" of recent emergency government measures is not rectified. The announcement was made in an open letter, published in Libration on 13th January, to Agns Buzyn, the French Minister of Health, in response to a three-point plan announced by the government on 20th November to improve staff morale, cut red tape and free-up additional resources Continue reading →

Researchers from Chinas Zhejiang University are looking for new ways to improve preoperative planning for procedures for children, with their findings outlined in the recently published Utility of three-dimensional printing in preoperative planning for children with anomalous pulmonary venous connection: a singer center experience. Many of the greatest benefits were put into action for this study as the 3D printed models could be used for completing diagnosis, assessing treatment options, and planning for surgery Continue reading →

Hamilton General Hospital exceededits total capacity almost every singleday for acute care within the first six months of 2019and its adult surgery unit has been overcapacity for the past three-and-a-half years. The head of clinical operations at Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) says that the adult medical surgical unit at Hamilton General Hospital has been running over capacity since August 2016 and staff are doing all they can to support patients. Executive vice president clinical operations and chief operating officer Dr. Continue reading →

This was Eastern Health CEO David Diamond's office setup for the three nights he spent at the Health Sciences Centre following Friday's storm. - Contributed Eastern Health CEO David Diamond has spent a lot of time at his office in the Health Sciences Centre of late more perhaps than he bargained for. He arrived there last Friday morning and didn't get home until Monday night, and slept on a cot in his office. Continue reading →

A recent market study published by Marketresearch.biz in its upcoming report outlook titled, Cardiac Surgery Instruments Market: Global Industry Analysis and Astonishing Growth [2020-2029] offers key market insights and emerging trends on the global Cardiac Surgery Instruments market. The report has offered an exhaustive analysis of the Cardiac Surgery Instruments Market taking into consideration all the crucial aspects like growth factors, constraints, market developments, and future prospects. Continue reading →

Theglobal cardiac surgery instruments marketis driven primarily by the growing prevalence of cardiac disorders across the world. The cardiac surgery instruments market has also benefited from the cross-channel demand to improve medical devices in terms of efficacy as well as patient safety, enabling steady growth of the sector. The cardiac surgery instruments market is likely to exhibit steady growth in the coming years due to the importance of the sector to the growing cardiac healthcare and medical devices sector. Continue reading →

Talented bakers created this heart-stopping cake for their local hospital - a super-realistic depiction of open heart surgery. The bloody concoction, which looks like a prop from a hospital drama, features a patient's chest in the operating theatre, with red-filled tubes and a rib spreader. Continue reading →

Apollo Hospitals, Guwahati, performed a heart tumour removal surgery through minimally invasive approach for the first time in the entire Northeast recently. This complex surgery was performed on a 54-year-old female patient from Sivasagar district of Upper Assam. The hospital authority on Tuesday said senior cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon Dr Jyoti Prasad Kalita and his team successfully performed the procedure. Continue reading →

BACKGROUND: Patients treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (pPCI) for ST elevationmyocardial infarction(STEMI) who have a history of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) are at high risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes. Data on the risk of a saphenous vein graft (SVG)-infarct-related artery (IRA) compared to other culprit vessels are sparse. The study was based on a prospectively collected registry of 2,405 consecutive patients with STEMI attending a tertiary medical center in 2001-2017 Continue reading →

Click to LISTEN as Tania Ortega-Cowan chats with Gary Pettit and Dr. Continue reading →