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Cardiac SurgeryThis page contains recent news articles, when available, and an overview of Cardiac Surgery but does not offer medical advice. You should contact your physician with regard to any health issues or concerns.News: Cardiac Surgery ...*** FILE *** Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, left, Baylor University Medical School heart surgeon, and one of his team of assistants, implants an artificial heart ... San Francisco Chronicle Mammohan to undergo cardiac surgery in AIIMS on Saturday - Jan 23, 2009 New Delhi (PTI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will undergo heart surgery on Saturday to remove cardiac blockages for which he was admitted to All India ... Hindu Cardiac surgery drug can heighten death risk - Feb 7, 2007 Researchers have found that a drug used to staunch blood loss in patients undergoing cardiac surgery can raise the risk of death over the medium term. ... Independent Online Beta Blockers Raise Stroke, Death Risk After Surgery - May 13, 2008 TUESDAY, May 13 (HealthDay News) -- Patients who received the blood pressure-lowering drugs known as beta blockers after having non-cardiac surgery were at ... Washington Post Hospital Told to Suspend Heart Surgery for Children - Aug 16, 2006 They will seek permission to resume the program “so we can get back to saving the lives of children that need pediatric cardiac surgery,â€? said Dr. Richard ... New York Times Workshop on cardiac surgery - Sep 19, 2005 HYDERABAD: A two-day joint international cardiac surgery and cardiology conference and workshop began here on Sunday, with the Australian expert Alistair ... The Hindu Cardiac surgery affects kids' life - Mar 30, 2009 Scientists have found that several categories of patients with heart disease, including African-Americans and lower-income families, have a lower quality of ... Times of India Another Study Warns of Risk From Cardiac Surgery Drug - Dec 2, 2008 TUESDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) -- A new study casts more doubt on the safety of the drug Trasylol (aprotinin), used to limit bleeding in patients ... Washington Post CPAP Therapy Boosts Cardiac Surgery Outcomes - May 6, 2009 By Robert Preidt. WEDNESDAY, May 6 (HealthDay News) -- A few hours of postoperative treatment with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) may help ... ABC News Pa. cardiac surgery cost report includes hospital-specific data - Jun 14, 2007 The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council released its latest cardiac surgery performance report Thursday. For the first time it included ... Bizjournals.com … REALLY LOVE NY Week after lifesaving cardiac surgery, 4 youths... - Dec 28, 2005 BY PAUL HB SHIN DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER. THEIR SMILES were genuine, both joyous and perpetual, evidence that receiving the gift of life was not lost on ... New York Daily News Williams finds support in US surgery debate - Feb 4, 2010 Supporters of the outspoken premier defended the government's tight grip on details about the cardiac surgery Williams will undergo, and even the opposition ... Toronto Star Hospital cleared for heart surgery: Procedures approved for McHenry … - Jul 20, 2006 The hospital submitted a study to the board, which concluded that the market for cardiac surgery in McHenry County was large enough to support programs at ... Free with registration - Chicago Tribune - AccessMyLibrary.com 'Asthma drug before cardiac surgery prevents renal failure' - Sep 15, 2009 PANAJI: Aminophylline, a drug used to treat wheezing and other breathing difficulties such as asthma, if given to patients undergoing cardiac surgery is an ... Times of India Older donated blood tied to heart surgery risk - Mar 20, 2008 Scientists from the Cleveland Clinic discovered that cardiac surgery patients who received blood that was more than two weeks old were 30 percent less ... Boston Globe Stanford doctor pioneered heart transplants World-respected surgeon … - Feb 11, 2006 At a time when everybody made cardiac surgery seem complex, he made it seem easy. ... Shumway followed every development in cardiac surgery long after his ... San Francisco Chronicle Cardiac surgery sans complications - Jun 24, 2005 VIJAYAWADA: Shattering the myth that treatment to cardiac ailments is beyond the reach of the common man, the Citi Cardiac Research Centre Limited, ... The Hindu Getinge buys Boston Scientific's cardiac, vascular surgery ops -... - Nov 5, 2007 Getinge said Boston Scientific's cardiac surgery division has sales of about 189 mln usd with 'very good' profitability. The vascular surgery division has ... Forbes Cardiac surgery costs criticised - Feb 2, 2010 NI Chest, Heart and Stroke has criticised the Department of Health over cardiac surgery costs. It has emerged that the cost of sending people outside ... BBC News … study to test value of heart-lung machine during cardiac surgery - Jul 11, 2008 It's a question that divides cardiac surgeons — is it better and safer to perform bypass surgery with the patient on a heart-lung machine that stands in for ... CBC.ca Heart patients travel for surgery - Sep 15, 2005 A smaller group of 15 patients is also to undergo cardiac surgery in Bristol. Health Commission Wales said patients were being offered treatment at English ... BBC News Rare cardiac surgery at Madurai hospital - Mar 18, 2006 MADURAI: A rare cardiac surgery has been performed on a 40-year old patient from Kovilpatti, who was suffering from severe heart failure and had irregular ... The Hindu Gazan baby's life saved by Wolfson heart surgery | Article from... - Jan 6, 2009 Lior Sasson, head of its pediatric cardiac surgery unit and others. "I WAS ... ... Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in pediatric cardiac surgery. ... Pay-Per-View - Jerusalem Post - HighBeam Research Mortimer Buckley, MGH cardiac surgery chief - Dec 1, 2007 The famous found their way to Dr. Mortimer J. Buckley, who repaired their ailing hearts. He replaced an aortic valve for actor John Wayne in 1978. ... Boston Globe Even when surgery is over, sedation's risks could linger; Death rates... - Jun 27, 2005 The patients in the Duke study underwent major, non-cardiac surgery with general anesthesia, and again, deaths in the first year after surgery were ... Pay-Per-View - Los Angeles Times - ProQuest Archiver Rare cardiac surgery to repair aneurysm - Nov 23, 2008 A longitudinal section of the body (the image at left) shows the bulge in the aorta at its arch rubbing against the vertebrae. The arrow shows the metallic ... Hindu Is carotid angioplasty followed by cardiac surgery a safe and... - Dec 4, 2007 ...van der Heyden J et al. (2007) Staged carotid angioplasty and stenting followed by cardiac surgery in patients with severe asymptomatic carotid artery ... Nature.com MGH suspends child heart surgery program - The Boston Globe - Apr 17, 2009 And, Manning added, cardiac surgery can be lucrative and prestigious for ... General put in place special monitoring for pediatric cardiac surgery. ... Boston Globe MAQUET Cardiovascular Announces Long-Term Follow-Up Data from … - Jan 25, 2010 In 2008, MAQUET added the Cardiac Surgery and Vascular Interventions businesses acquired by GETINGE from Boston Scientific and Guidant. ... Bizjournals.com Iraqi children recovering after cardiac surgery - Mar 15, 2007 Kochi, March 15. (PTI): Four Iraqi children got a new lease of life after undergoing cardiac surgeries at the Amrita Institute of Medical sciences (AIMS) ... Hindu BNB Minister Greg Byrne in hospital for cardiac surgery - May 5, 2009 Business New Brunswick Minister Greg Byrne, 49, is in hospital in Saint John for cardiac surgery later this week. (Government of New Brunswick) ... CBC.ca … patients receive prophylactic amiodarone therapy before cardiac... - Sep 20, 2005 Following cardiac surgery, many patients develop atrial fibrillation (AF) and atrial flutter, which increases the risk of heart failure, ... Nature.com Need more cardiac surgery centres: Guv - Feb 22, 2008 Pune, February 21 Around six million people in India have coronary artery disease and five million have rheumatic heart disease. ... Expressindia.com Surgery unit defended: Three recent deaths of children and pediatric ... - Aug 7, 2006 7--The dean of Stony Brook University's medical school called the pediatric cardiac surgery program at the campus' hospital "superb" and denied the death of ... Free with registration - Newsday - AccessMyLibrary.com Special Bypass Procedure Used During Infant Heart Surgery Does Not … - Jan 25, 2010 ..."Selective use of DHCA during cardiac surgery in infancy may facilitate operative repair and is not associated with impaired neurodevelopmental outcomes," ... Forbes 25 kids identified for cardiac surgery - Jul 30, 2007 KANCHEEPURAM: Twentyfive children, including a 20-day-old baby, have been identified for cardiac surgery at a paediatric heart disease screening camp held ... The Hindu Hospital halts elective surgery pending review - Sep 22, 2005 ..."We need to improve our cardiac surgery outcomes to be at a level we feel our patients ... The state has been collecting data on cardiac surgery since 2001. ... Pay-Per-View - Providence Journal - ProQuest Archiver Manipal hospital to conduct cardiac surgery for poor - Jan 30, 2010 PTI. One of the premier health care groups from South India has announced their initiative to conduct cardiac surgery at the cheapest rate for the poor and ... Daily News & Analysis The Henry Ford of heart surgery: Devi Shetty's business model... - Nov 21, 2009 After graduating from medical college in India, Dr Shetty trained in cardiac surgery at Guy's Hospital in London, one of Europe's top medical facilities. ... NEWS.com.au Canadian study 'will change heart surgery' - May 14, 2008 ...the strong and consistent negative trends in mortality associated with Aprotinin use preclude its use in patients undergoing high-risk cardiac surgery," ... Toronto Star … : Heart patients want an early start: KIHD facility for cardiac... - Dec 9, 2006 On provisional basis, a cardiac surgery facility with four to five beds capacity and an operation theatre was likely to be made operational in the existing ... DAWN.com Heart surgery 'saving more lives' - Jul 30, 2009 They said the quality of care has been improving since the first publication of mortality rates in cardiac surgery in 2001, despite fears surgeons would ... The Guardian … insulin therapy during cardiac surgery improve postoperative... - Apr 25, 2007 Gandhi GY et al. (2007) Intensive intraoperative insulin therapy versus conventional glucose management during cardiac surgery: a randomized trial. ... Nature.com Beta blockers and surgery not a good mix? - Jul 27, 2005 Guidelines recommend giving beta blocker pills to people at high risk of heart problems if they are undergoing non-cardiac surgery. ... msnbc.com Shining a light on cardiac surgery results - Sep 22, 2008 By Douglas S. Brown. IN SUMMER 2000, the state Senate's Committee on Ways and Means had to decide whether to allow the expansion of cardiac surgery from ... Boston Globe State makes push for death rate data - Feb 19, 2006 The hospital also made changes to its cardiac surgery program, according to ... The hospital began giving all cardiac surgery patients antibiotics within an ... Boston Globe Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan - Jan 14, 2010 ...“We've known it [cognitive decline] exists after cardiac surgery,â€? Monk said. “Mine is the second large study to show that it exists after non-cardiac ... Daily Times Keeping the disease under wraps - Aug 6, 2007 At Ichilov, the management told the cardiac surgery team that there was no need to inform the patients about the doctor's condition. ... Ha'aretz Panel cites UMass hospital 'red flags' - Oct 12, 2005 The hospital is now searching for a new cardiac surgery chief. ''There has to be someone guiding the ship or it can stray off course," Dr. William Nugent, ... Boston Globe MAQUET Cardiovascular Awarded Three-Year Contract From Novation … - Dec 11, 2009 In 2008, it added the Cardiac Surgery and Vascular Interventions businesses that GETINGE acquired from Boston Scientific and Guidant in 2008. ... TheStreet.com - TheStreet.com (subscription) Nursing shortage presents a heart surgery problem - Ryall - Oct 7, 2008 ..."The expansion of cardiac surgery will be important, but difficult with the ... The working group said cardiac surgery rates should be increased from 54 per ... National Business Review Cardica's C-Port(R) Flex-A(R) Anastomosis System to Be Used for … - Jan 19, 2010 Research and development for the cardiac surgery ISI is funded by the New Energy ... It is anticipated that the cardiac surgery ISI to be developed by the ... Forbes Suburban Hospital unveils new cardiac surgery center - Sep 28, 2006 Suburban Hospital this week officially opens its new cardiac surgery and angioplasty center, a partnership with the National Institutes of Health and Johns ... Bizjournals.com Cardiac surgery wait list crosses 300 - Jul 31, 2009 NAGPUR: The State government's initiative of involving private hospitals to reduce the waiting list in heart surgeries at the Super Specialty Hospital (SSH) ... Times of India Do corticosteroids prevent atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery? - Jun 4, 2007 Halonen J et al. (2007) Corticosteroids for the prevention of atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery: a randomized controlled trial. ... Nature.com Cardiac program reopening - UMass Memorial has oversight team - Nov 1, 2005 Chief of surgery, he was tapped to be acting chief of cardiac surgery, ... The new entity brings cardiology, cardiac surgery, vascular medicine, ... $1.95 - Worcester Telegram Gazette - NewsBank Getinge to shift cardiac surgery unit production to US from Puerto... - Jun 18, 2008 STOCKHOLM (Thomson Financial) - Getinge AB said its Medical Systems business will incur costs of 50 million to 60 million Swedish crowns through relocating ... Forbes ATS Medical Announces Participation in the 46th Annual Meeting of the... - Jan 21, 2010 ATS Medical continues to expand its cardiac surgery product portfolio, ... ATS Medical serves the cardiac surgery community by focusing on two distinct but ... FOXBusiness Medtronic combines vascular and cardiac surgery businesses - Apr 11, 2007 April 11 (Reuters) - Medical device company Medtronic Inc. (MDT.N) said it combined its vascular and cardiac surgery businesses to form a new global ... Reuters UK Is Heart Surgery Worth It? - Jul 7, 2005 And nowhere are the financial and health stakes higher than in the area of cardiac surgery. US patients and insurers will spend $3.4 billion this year on ... BusinessWeek Stony Brook hit hard over deaths, State demands full review of... - Aug 19, 2006 ..."The investigative findings clearly demonstrate that the hospital must review its pediatric programs and, in particular, the pediatric cardiac surgery ... Pay-Per-View - Newsday - ProQuest Archiver West Penn names new cardiac surgery chief - Jan 23, 2009 Dr. Walter E. McGregor, formerly of Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, has been named chief of the Division of Cardiac Surgery at West Penn ... Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Pittsburgh Post Gazette Heart Surgeon Proud of Slovenian Cardiac Surgery (interview) - Jun 10, 2008 Ljubljana, 6 October (STA) - Borut Gersak, head of the cardiovascular surgical ward at Slovenia's main medical institution, UKC, said in an interview for ... STA New cardiac surgery device unveiled at St. Boniface Hospital - Jan 22, 2010 WINNIPEG -- Local businessmen Hartley Richardson and Gary Bachman will announce the purchase of a state-of-the-art medical device for the St. Boniface ... Winnipeg Free Press Etiology of cognitive change after CABG surgery: more than just the... - Dec 11, 2007 First, postoperative cognitive decline is not unique to cardiac surgery. Second, the use of off-pump surgery does not seem to offer any obvious benefits ... Nature.com Article: And the Beat Goes On; More than 20 percent of the coronary … - Jul 11, 2005 Cardiac Surgery Manual for Nurses ... the new or experienced cardiac surgery nurse. Nurses often ... physiologic responses of the cardiac surgery patient. ... Pay-Per-View - Newsweek - HighBeam Research Government to cut Auckland cardiac surgery waiting list | HEALTH News - Jul 5, 2009 The Government has announced it will spend $5 million on cutting Auckland's cardiac surgery waiting list. Health Minister Tony Ryall says in an Auckland DHB ... TVNZ A risky practice?: As more angioplasties are performed, some doctors ... - Sep 3, 2006 Elective angioplasty "performed at hospitals without cardiac surgery may be doing more harm than good," the authors conclude. The national guidelines ... Free with registration - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - AccessMyLibrary.com Heart surgery patients put in danger by using 14-day-old blood - Mar 24, 2008 Gavin Murphy, a senior lecturer in cardiac surgery at the University of Bristol who led last year's British Heart Foundation study, said that the routine ... Times Online Can creatine kinase MB levels predict mortality after cardiac surgery? - Apr 1, 2005 Ramsay J et al. (2005) Increased creatine kinase MB level predicts postoperative mortality after cardiac surgery independent of new Q waves. ... Nature.com Cardiac-surgery workshop held - Nov 29, 2009 AHMEDABAD: A medical workshop on minimally invasive surgery for heart valve replacement was held at SAL Hospital on Saturday. ... Times of India Deaths spur debate about drugs made in pharmacies - Aug 7, 2006 The Fredericksburg, Va., hospital shut down its cardiac surgery program the next ... The hospital later determined that at least 11 cardiac surgery patients ... USA TODAY - USA Today Boston Scientific to explore sale of businesses - MarketWatch - Aug 16, 2007 It acquired the cardiac surgery unit in April 2006 as part of a deal to buy Guidant Corp. The facility is based in San Jose, Calif., and provides tools for ... MarketWatch Children's in Peril: Cardiac surgery, cancer, trauma services in the ... - Dec 7, 2005 The Montreal Children's Hospital would be "destroyed" if the Quebec government forges ahead with plans to transfer its cardiac surgery, cancer and trauma ... Canada.com Not too old for a second chance - Oct 30, 2008 Yet he said many octogenarians are not referred by their doctors for an operation because they are considered too old for major cardiac surgery, ... Globe and Mail Ethiopia: Medical Team Performing Successful Cardiac Surgery - Jun 2, 2006 Addis Ababa — The 61-man team that came to Ethiopia under the coordination of the Association of Ethiopian Medical Professionals in North America has ... AllAfrica.com ATS Medical Announces Preliminary Fourth Quarter 2009 Results - Jan 11, 2010 ATS Medical serves the cardiac surgery community by focusing on two distinct ... Continuing ATS Medical's focus on serving the cardiac surgery community are ... Wall Street Journal … EuroSCORE accurately predict long-term outcome after cardiac... - Aug 12, 2005 ...(2005) Predictive value of EuroSCORE on long term outcome in cardiac surgery patients: a single institution study. Heart 91: 779–784 PubMed ... Nature.com Zahir Rashid, MD: What's next for thoracic & cardiovascular surgery? - Feb 11, 2009 Cardiac surgery continues to advance at a rapid pace with new technology, procedures, ... Among the trends emerging in cardiac surgery that will become best ... MLive.com Rae upbeat about heart surgery - Aug 16, 2007 ...an emergency situation, once the aneurysm is ruptured or torn," said Dr. Kevin Teoh, head of cardiac surgery at the Hamilton Health Sciences Centre. ... Pay-Per-View - Toronto Star - ProQuest Archiver Statins Help Prevent Delirium After Heart Surgery - Dec 25, 2008 26 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly patients who take cholesterol-lowering statins before cardiac surgery may lower their chances of having postoperative ... Forbes Two-year-old undergoes rare heart surgery - Sep 1, 2006 All disciplines of paediatric cardiology and paediatric cardiac surgery will be discussed on a weekly basis," said Vishal Bali, CEO,Wockhardt Hospitals. ... Times of India Cardiac surgery on closed circuit TV for school kids - Jul 14, 2005 NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- A LIVE demonstration of open-heart surgery through close circuit camera was held for school children at the Choithram Hospital ... Pay-Per-View - Hindustan Times - Factiva, from Dow Jones Anesthesia-risk studies raise long-term concern; Effects of heavy... - Jul 8, 2005 The patients in the Duke study underwent major, non-cardiac surgery with general anesthesia. Again, deaths in the first year after surgery were primarily ... Pay-Per-View - Toronto Star - ProQuest Archiver ATS Medical Announces CE Mark Approval for the ATS 3f Enable … - Dec 7, 2009 ATS Medical serves the cardiac surgery community by focusing on two distinct ... Continuing ATS Medical's focus on serving the cardiac surgery community are ... Wall Street Journal Is Heart Surgery Worth It? - Jul 18, 2005 And nowhere are the financial and health stakes higher than in the area of cardiac surgery. US patients and insurers will spend $3.4 billion this year on ... BusinessWeek Gazan baby's life saved by Wolfson heart surgery - Jan 5, 2009 He joined Wolfson's staff and served as the deputy chief of cardiovascular surgery and head of pediatric cardiac surgery. In 1988, while serving in the US ... Jerusalem Post Carbon Monoxide May Help Bypass Surgery Patients - May 23, 2008 ..."Cardiac surgery is one of the most extreme situations a patient can face ... Only about 2 percent of cardiac surgery patients suffer life-threatening lung ... Washington Post HYDERABAD: Cardiac surgery unit at LUMHS gets surgeon - Nov 28, 2008 By Our Staff Correspondent. HYDERABAD, Nov 27: The cardiac surgery unit at Liaquat University Hospital is now completed with the appointment of Prof ... DAWN.com 400 children forced to wait for heart surgery - Aug 26, 2008 More than 400 children are on waiting lists for cardiac surgery in Victoria, with one angry mum saying ... Last Friday, all cardiac surgery was called off. ... NEWS.com.au Cardiac surgery: 30-plus-day wait - Jul 8, 2008 A DROMANA grandfather has waited in pain for more than four weeks for urgent heart surgery because of a shortage of intensive care beds and services in ... The Age Statins May Decrease Incidence Of Delirium After Cardiac Surgery - Dec 26, 2008 A study featured in the January 2009 issue of Anesthesiology offers some of the first evidence that the use of cholesterol-lowering statins before cardiac ... Medical News Today - Medical News Today (press release) Statins Help Prevent Delirium After Heart Surgery - Dec 22, 2008 26 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly patients who take cholesterol-lowering statins before cardiac surgery may lower their chances of having postoperative ... ABC News For 100 Iraqi Doctors, a Return to Normal - Apr 30, 2008 The entrance to the Ibn al-Bitar Hospital for Cardiac Surgery in Baghdad, where specialists began a conference on Tuesday. ... New York Times Deaths in NJ after bypass surgery drops - May 30, 2007 She said the hospital did a thorough review of its cardiac surgery program in 2005 and made changes the next year, including bringing in a new chief of ... USA TODAY - USA Today Government cardiac surgery plan welcomed - Jul 6, 2009 An audit done in May found 141 patients had been waiting longer than the recommended time of three months for their operation. ... TVNZ ATS Medical to Participate in the 28th Annual JP Morgan Healthcare … - Jan 5, 2010 ATS Medical serves the cardiac surgery community by focusing on two distinct ... Continuing ATS Medical's focus on serving the cardiac surgery community are ... Wall Street Journal Six Iraqi children to undergo surgery today - Jan 9, 2005 She is one of the six Iraqi children who arrived in Bangalore on Saturday morning to undergo cardiac surgery at Manipal Heart Foundation. ... The Hindu Future of heart surgery program at Landmark hospital questioned - Mar 8, 2008 He said he wanted to evaluate the cardiac surgery at Landmark and start weighing ... When Landmark proposed its cardiac surgery program in the late 1990s, ... Providence Journal Pa. heart-surgery report finds improvements - Aug 6, 2009 ..."Due to Brandywine Hospital's low volumes in cardiac surgery during 2007, the percentages reported are greatly impacted by a very low number of inpatient ... 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