Patients
seen by their cardiologist were 15 percent less likely to have a heart attack or die within the first year, compared to patients who received follow up care from their primary care physician.
Women with heart failure after cancer treatment were more likely to be treated with standard medications if
seen by a cardiologist compared with those who did not see a cardiologist.
Little Remington was
seen by a cardiologist.
Not exact matches
Says Walsh, «When you're in our complexity clinic, and you're being
seen by a complexity specialist, if we need to talk to the
cardiologist we can dial them up and video them in.
Of these, 42 535 (75 %) were
seen by a primary care physician or
cardiologist within 30 days after discharge, and 14 232 (25 %) did not receive follow - up care.
Only 17 percent of high risk chest pain patients
seen in the emergency room were evaluated
by cardiologists within a month; 58 percent
saw a primary care physicians alone, and 25 percent had no physician follow - up within a month.
There's a famous study, I don't know if you've
seen it, I use it in every public lecture
by Robert Volvo University of Maryland
cardiologist awhile back, fifteen years, an Egg McMuffin consumed
by a healthy person and you want to measure endothelial function artery function, within one hour you had a dramatic drop in healthy arteries when you eat one fast food hamburger.
Although the hospital has an active community clinic providing primary care for pets in and around Stillwater, most of the animals
seen at the hospital are there to be examined
by a veterinary specialist such as a
cardiologist, ophthalmologist, radiologist or oncologist.
The survival times of the patients who had been managed jointly
by a primary care veterinarian and in person veterinary
cardiologist were compared to the patients whose owners had elected not to
see a
cardiologist.
The patients who were cared for
by both the primary care veterinarian and
cardiologist lived 74 % longer than those who did not
see a specialist.