Women With Heart Emergencies Less Likely to Get Proper Care

The analysis, in Women’s Health Issues, used four years of data from a federal government database to compile information on out-of-hospital emergencies involving people 40 and older with chest pain or cardiac arrest. Almost 2.4 million people, 1.2 million of them women, were included.

Cardiac Emergencies in the First Year of Life

In approaching cardiac emergencies, cardiac disease can be divided into structural disease, conduction abnormalities, and acquired illnesses.

Cardiac Emergencies in the First Year of Life

The most challenging scenarios of cardiac emergencies in the first year of life include cyanotic episodes, congestive heart failure, cardiogenic shock or collapse, and arrhythmias. All of these emergent presentations can be the result of either the initial presentation of disease or as a known complication of an already diagnosed cardiac lesion.

Cardiac Emergencies: Assessment

This course will discuss life-threatening and non-life-threatening causes of CP and provide an initial approach to evaluating CP patients stressing the collection of the health history and physical examination.

Neonatal Cardiac Emergencies

These conditions may present as severe cyanosis, heart failure, lethargy and lack of spontaneous movement, arrhythmia or hyper cyanotic spells.

Pediatric Cardiac Emergencies

Good review from Morristown Medical Center & Goryeb Children’s Hospital.

The “Weekend Effect” in Cardiac Emergency Outcomes

As our study suggests, when considering all-comers presenting to any hospital, the weekend effect is likely to be true. But other studies, including a recent study by Arnaoutakis et al of the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection, which includes aortic centers of excellence at tertiary and quarternary care hospitals, found no difference in mortality whether surgery was performed on the weekend or during the week.7 Again, context matters when interpreting the data.