This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

This topic is an actual presentation from a national conference conducted by Contemporary Forums and includes the streaming, synchronized audio with visual materials. CE Credit is optional. Contemporary Forums: Providing Quality, Accredited Continuing Education to Thousands of Healthcare Professionals For More Than 25 Years and Now Offering both Live Conferences and Online Conference Content Via the Online CE Library.

Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome is a condition characterized by abnormal electrical pathways in the heart that cause a disruption of the heart's normal rhythm (arrhythmia). The heartbeat is controlled by electrical signals that move through the heart in a highly coordinated way. A specialized cluster of cells called the atrioventricular node conducts electrical impulses from the heart's upper chambers (the atria) to the ...

What is Congestive Heart Failure? Congestive heart failure (CHF) is the most common heart condition among seniors — nearly a half-million new cases are diagnosed annually. But what is it, and more importantly, what causes it?

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Endoscopic harvesting of the radial artery for CABG surgery failed to significantly reduce wound infection when compared with traditional harvesting using the surgical approach, a randomized, controlled clinical trial has shown.

MedWire News: Children with stroke are most likely to have cerebral arteriopathies if they are of early school age, have sickle cell disease, or a recent upper respiratory tract infection, reports the International Pediatric Stroke Study Group. The group encompasses 30 centers in five continents. For the current study, Heather Fullerton (University of California, San Francisco, USA) and colleagues report on ...

The heart is a two stage electric pump whose job it is to circulate blood through the body. The pump is dependent on the electric current that the cells of the heart generate to have a coordinated squeeze so that the pump can pump. The heart has four chambers, the right and left atria (singular= atrium) and the right and left ...

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Ablation is used to treat abnormal heart rhythms. It can be performed both surgically and non-surgically. Non-surgical ablation is performed in a special lab called the electrophysiology (EP) laboratory. During this non-surgical procedure a catheter is inserted into your heart and then a special machine is used to direct energy to the heart muscle. This energy either "disconnects" or "isolates" the ...

Coated Stents Better Than Bare Metal Ones in Short Run Angioplasty patients who receive stents coated with medication to prevent narrowing of the artery do better one year after the surgery than those who receive bare metal stents, a new study shows.

As the heart beats, it pumps blood through a system of blood vessels called the circulatory system. The vessels are elastic tubes that carry blood to every part of the body. Arteries carry blood away from the heart while veins return it. Vascular disease includes any condition that affects your circulatory system. This ranges from diseases of your arteries, veins and ...

NEW YORK - Poorer lifestyle habits may go a long way in explaining why people with depression or anxiety face a higher risk of heart disease and stroke, a study published Monday suggests.

MedWire News: A study suggests that a lifetime lactation of 2 or more years is associated with a decreased risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) decades later. “Our findings are consistent with and extend those from earlier reports linking reproductive history to cardiovascular disease risk,” comment Alison Stuebe (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA) and colleagues

Experts Revise Guidelines on Daily Aspirin for Heart 03.15.09, 08:00 PM EDT MONDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- Amid the continuing debate over who should pop an aspirin each day to fight heart disease, and at what dose, U.S. experts have revised guidelines stating that lower doses appear to be at least as effective as higher doses and safer at preventing ...

MedWire News: Three common genetic variants are associated with circulating levels of natriuretic peptides and blood pressure (BP) in the European population, important research shows. The study appears in the journal Nature Genetics and represents the first discovery of a common gene variant that influences BP, a finding that could potentially lead to new antihypertensive therapies. “It’s well known that hypertension ...