From the Experts

The operations of an ASC (vs. hospital setting) often benefit from more efficient workflows, fewer delays, and shorter patient stays, thus leading to higher patient satisfaction and often increased volumes over time.(1)

In patients presenting with severe pulmonary edema, rapid deterioration can lead to intubation and mechanical ventilation unless immediate and effective intervention is taken. One particularly severe and underrecognized variant of this...

"The planning process for new service expansion includes several critical decisions, one of the most important being, 'Where will this new service reside?'" writes Mike Church, a business consultant at Corazon. "A lot of this discussion boils...

Sympathetic Crashing Acute Pulmonary Edema (SCAPE) is sometimes referred to as flash pulmonary edema. A protocol developed by Mohammad Reza Movahed, MD, PhD, uses repeated buccal administration of nitroglycerin ointment as a non-invasive,...

The DynamX Bioadaptor (Elixir Medical) is a coronary prosthesis that circumferentially separates post-implantation, freeing the vessel, and which subsequently provides the essential and necessary mechanism of dynamic support to restore more...

Cardiology is often described as an entrepreneurial specialty because of the opportunities for varied and complex management structures. Consider the strategic risks involved in some of the opportunities presenting themselves today.

As anyone who has been in healthcare for more than 5 minutes will tell you, trends in the industry come and go, the pendulum swings back and forth, and there is no soothsayer with a crystal ball that can tell us what to look out for exactly...