Heart Attacks, Other Emergencies Spike During Holidays
During his 23-year career, the medical director of the UCSF Emergency Department has done everything from treat traumatic injuries to deliver babies. While medical emergencies occur throughout the year, Polevoi sees the winter season and its related overindulgence as a pivotal time for preventing emergencies by listening to our bodies. "People tend to delay care around the holidays, " said Polevoi, whose emergency medicine team treats about 3, 000 patients every month. "They may have symptoms of cardiovascular disease such as abdominal or chest discomfort which they interpret as indigestion or overeating, but in fact it could be cardiac ischemia.
Johns Hopkins Medicine To Offer Pepsico Employees New Travel Surgery Benefit
Johns Hopkins announced today that PepsiCo, the world's second-largest food and beverage business, will offer its employees the option to travel to Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore for cardiac and complex joint replacement surgeries. The travel surgery benefit will be extended to PepsiCo's domestic employees and their dependents almost 250, 000 people making the finest in medical care available regardless of geography. PepsiCo, which sponsors its own self-funded medical plans, will waive deductibles and coinsurance for those who elect to have their surgery at Johns Hopkins.
Bleeding After Dental Extractions In Cardiac Patients On Anticoagulants Reduced By Protocol
Clinicians need a protocol to reduce the risk of substantial bleeding after dental extractions in cardiac patients who take anticoagulant medications. Findings in a study published in the current issue of the Journal of Oral Implantology reveal that the use of leukocyte- and platelet-rich fibrin biomaterial, a material commonly used in dentistry to improve healing and tissue regeneration, is a safe filling and haemostatic material after dental extractions. Researchers assessed the use of the biomaterial in 50 heart patients who received oral anticoagulant therapy with warfarin after a mechanical valve substitution.