A heart attack is your heart's way of telling you that it's starved for oxygen. It happens when an artery that feeds oxygen-rich blood to the heart becomes obstructed. Call 911 immediately if you experience the symptoms below for two minutes or more: Common signs and symptoms may include:
Heart failure (HF) affects nearly 5.7 million Americans, and it is the leading cause of hospitalization in people 65 and older. A heart failure diagnosis doesn’t mean your heart has stopped working, but it isn’t working as well as it should. HF is also the primary reason patients return to the hospital following discharge. But […]<br>Heart failure (HF) affects nearly 5.7 million Americans, and it is the leading cause of hospitalization in people 65 and older. A heart failure diagnosis doesn’t mean…
This first-of-its-kind study examines the association between walking and two different subtypes of heart failure among senior women.
Elderly heart failure patients with cognitive impairments have a greater chance of readmission or death because they often don't adhere to medical instruction.
At Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans, researchers are teaching heart disease sufferers what makes a healthy meal — and how to cook one. The program will monitor how this affects readmission rates.
Over the past decade, death rates from heart failure for adults between 35 and 64 years old have been increasing.
When older people hospitalized for heart failure are sent home, they are often given a whopping 10 medications to take for a variety of conditions. But is this "polypharmacy" practice necessary, or does it just place a bigger burden on already frail patients?
I’ve recently been helping a friend who has been managing her mother’s transitions from a hospital to a rehab facility and then to another rehab facility that now wants to send her home before she, or her family, is ready. It reminded me of how tough family caregiving transitions can be. I’ve been through so many of them with my parents and my sister — some smooth, others unexpected and rocky. As a study in the American Journal of Nursing found, …
One is a plumbing problem, while the other is electrical
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In order to continue improving survival and prevention of heart damage, potential heart attack victims need to take action more quickly, heart experts said.
Dr. Timothy Ihrig, Medical Director of Palliative Care at the Trinity Regional Medical Center within the Unity Point Heath System, offers advice on how to ov...
As telehealth continues to expand, it is important to proactively understand the risks of delivering care virtually and how to improve it.
A cardiologist weighs in on premature retirement and a study that reveals one in three won't work again.
"This thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."
Failure to provide critical customer service is a form of negligence, she says.
A Consumer Fact Sheet<br>If a medical error occurs, it is often a result of a series of small failures that are individually not big enough to cause an accident, but combined can result in an error. Patients can ensure a safer experience with the health care system by being involved and informed about their treatment. Improving patient safety requires continuous learning and constant communication between…