Sentences with phrase «cardiac events within»

Patients with chest pain have similar rates of heart attacks and other major cardiac events within two years whether they were evaluated with a new type of CT scan or the traditional stress test, according to results presented today by Duke Medicine researchers at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology.

This data was then compared with patients» outcomes, including heart attack or the occurrence of major adverse cardiac events within 30 days.

Five patients in the intervention group (1.4 percent) experienced serious adverse cardiac events within 24 hours of the end of the intervention period compared with none in the usual care group.

A zero CAC score is typically associated with very low risk of heart attack or other adverse cardiac event within 10 years (22).

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Every time 9 - 11 is dispatched for a cardiac arrest case, it informs users of the app who are within a quarter - mile radius of the event in the hopes that they may be able to get there first.

«This creates a risk that if you don't look for cardiac events, you might miss them,» he said, adding that this is the first large international study to establish thresholds of high - sensitivity troponin T that are independently associated with death within 30 days after non-cardiac surgery.

«If you look at the people who are given statins after a cardiac event, only half are still taking their medications within five years,» Dr. Gotto says.

The recently completed CADENCE study developed and piloted an enhanced psychological care (EPC) intervention for patients presenting with depressive symptoms following a cardiac event who attended cardiac rehabilitation.16 EPC was delivered by cardiac nurse specialists, within their existing workloads and embedded within the structured cardiac rehabilitation programme.