CardioVisual is pleased to introduce our readers to cardiac electrophysiologist Dr. Mansour Razminia, director of the cardiac electrophysiology lab at AMITA Health St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Razminia has been a practicing physician for over twenty years. He’s affiliated with several hospitals, including...
CardioVisual is pleased to announce a digital education partnership with Itamar Medical, an Israeli company that designs and develops sleep apnea diagnostic products. CardioVisual will host Itamar’s educational videos on our platform so that physicians can share with their cardiovascular patients impacts of sleep apnea...
Sleep breathing disorders such as apneas and hypopneas and insufficient ventilation during sleep have shown a relationship to the worsening of cardiovascular disease (CVD). While abnormal respiratory patterns affect up to a quarter of middle-aged and older adults, those with CVD have significantly higher incidences...
Virtual and augmented reality technology has long been promising to the medical field, but the equipment’s often unwieldy, expensive, and low resolution displays often thwarted its potential. Now, however, there are a number of technologies using VR and AR to assist in healthcare applications, and...
February is American Heart Month, and Feb. 22nd is National Heart Valve Disease (HVD) Awareness Day. Sponsored by the Alliance for Aging Research, HVD Awareness Day is dedicated to increasing education and awareness of the risks and symptoms of HVD with the aim of reducing...
Last December, The New York Times ran an op-ed from from cardiologist Dr. Hader Warraich detailing Warraich’s concerns about an alarm trend: the rise in patients trusting dubious internet research more so than than their doctors’ orders or evidence-based treatments. What’s the problem with internet...
The overall rate of hacking of consumer health data went down in 2018 from a previous high in 2017, but that doesn’t mean that fewer individuals’ health information is at risk. As reported in Health IT News, while the overall number of individual breaches has...
At CardioVisual, we continue to bring reliable and trusted videos from leading experts about unique and innovative devices, treatments and procedures in the various fields of Cardiology. Feel free to share the videos and this free app with your colleagues, trainees and staff. The app...
As studies have revealed closer ties between sleep breathing disorders (SBD) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) than were previously known, a new emphasis is being putting on testing CVD patients for sleep apnea and other sleep breathing disturbances early in their CVD treatment process. In the...
Valentine’s Day is on the horizon and along with the spikes in people’s blood glucose levels, the medical community will likely also see a spike in patients asking about acute stress cardiomyopathy, though they won’t use that term. Known in popular media as “broken heart...