Nursing staff interventions regarding shock team activation significantly improved the time of diagnosis and acceptance of patients with cardiogenic shock. A cardiovascular specialty hospital in north ...

Several factors can lead to shock in infants, ranging from infections and dehydration to congenital heart defects and trauma.

Elevating patients with cardiogenic shock (CS) to mechanical circulatory support (MCS) early on could yield greater reductions in mortality due to CS, as opposed to the strategy of managing patients ...

In an effort to encourage best practices for cardiogenic shock care, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) has issued a consensus statement that provides practical advice to inform evaluation and ...

The effects of temporary mechanical circulatory support with a microaxial flow pump on mortality among patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) complicated by cardiogenic shock ...

Numerous knowledge gaps exist regarding the care of female patients with cardiogenic shock, often because they have been consistently underrepresented in clinical trials, according to a new consensus ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – Cardiogenic shock is a serious ...

A new initiative by The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) proposes a new framework and call to action for managing cardiogenic shock (CS), establishing lactate clearance ...

ATLANTA -- Routine use of the Impella CP microaxial flow pump significantly improved survival in patients with infarct-related cardiogenic shock, the randomized DanGer Shock trial showed. In more than ...

Dr. Man Piu Wong: A 55-year-old man was evaluated at this hospital after a witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The patient had been eating at a restaurant late at night when he lost ...