There has been a rising trend of cardiology procedures migrating to ASCs, despite cardiology-driven ASCs only making up 2 percent of single-specialty ASCs. Three administrators spoke to Becker’s ASC ...
Electrophysiology (EP) procedures are crucial in diagnosing and treating various heart rhythm disorders. They involve a doctor placing thin catheters into the heart to assess its electrical activity.
Interventional cardiology is a specialized field of cardiology that focuses on catheter-based heart procedures. Catheter procedures use small, hollow tubes (catheters) inserted through your blood ...
The most lucrative cardiology procedures within the Medicare population for hospitals are coronary artery bypass grafts, according to research from Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania’s ...
A technique to treat an irregular heartbeat that limits or eliminates patients' exposure to radiation should be more widely adopted by physicians, NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine ...
A Canadian cardiologist has published a report in the journal Eurointervention describing how he used a Canadian-invented device for the first time in the world to successfully insert a MitraClip ...
An Israeli cardiologist claims to have developed a “first in the world” heart procedure, by plugging a bleeding hole in a 29-year old’s heart, using a device that is usually used to unblock arteries.