Data provide first human validation of cardiac energetics modulation as a therapeutic target in cardiometabolic heart disease, including heart ...

Patients in a hospital's intensive care unit are kept under close observation: clinicians continuously monitor their vital signs such as their pulse, blood pressure and blood oxygen saturation. This ...

Patients with Fontan circulatory failure face higher mortality risk while awaiting or after undergoing heart transplantation, if they have certain health complications, according to a multi-center ...

Hemorrhagic fevers are severe viral diseases that are often fatal. Researchers have now identified messenger substances of the immune system, which in infected mice lead to the development of shock.

The intensive care unit (ICU) is flooded with patient monitor alarms, so much so that health care workers typically become inured to them. That’s not surprising given that there are an estimated 10 ...

A multi-center study has identified critical risk factors that increase the likelihood of death in children with a heart defect who are awaiting or have recently undergone heart transplantation, ...

Swiss researchers set out to identify and analyze vital sign data that could offer a window into predicting circulatory failure, which could enable more effective prevention of catastrophic events in ...

VASCULAR collapse is frequently associated with paroxysmal tachycardia. The medical literature consists for the most part of single case reports and reveals that whereas in some cases collapse is ...

Atherosclerosis: The fatty buildup of plaque in the artery walls, that causes the arteries to harden and narrow until blood cannot pass properly. Enhancing leg circulation primarily hinges on engaging ...

Small number of highly relevant alarms "Preventing circulatory failure is a crucial aspect of patient treatment in intensive care. Even short periods of inadequate circulation significantly increase ...