This quality improvement project utilized a survey to identify barriers to palliative care integration in heart failure management in the cardiovascular intensive care un [...]

How does our heart, perhaps our most well-recognized organ, keep our blood pumping? This study guide covers the basics of cardiac physiology, and the most common cardiova [...]

Acute cardiac injury with renal injury (acute cardiorenal syndrome) can induce chronic kidney disease (CKD), but mechanisms by which heart injury signals to kidney are un [...]

Methamphetamine-associated heart failure (MethHF) is quickly becoming a recognized healthcare problem with devastating patient and societal impact, especially in the stat [...]

Sympathetic nerves are lost in the damaged myocardium (infarct) after myocardial infarction (MI), and the relative area of denervation predicts risk of sudden cardiac arr [...]

A cost-benefit analysis (CBA) tool allows a healthcare organization to input important variables related to a potential project to determine the expected economic impact [...]

Each year in the United States, 15-20% of 1 million visits to the Emergency Department for Acute Heart Failure result in direct home discharge, with patients often experi [...]

Heart failure, the fifth most common cause for hospitalization, is associated with the highest 30-day readmission rate among all diagnoses in the United States. A strong [...]

Heart failure (HF) is a complex clinical syndrome rather than a disease and can result from any structural or functional cardiac disorder that impairs the ability of the [...]