New laser-based headset can measure blood flow, assess risk of stroke

When physicians want to know more about a patient’s risk of cardiovascular disease, they can order a cardiac stress test. But when it comes to risk of stroke, there is

Oral anticoagulants should be paused before transcatheter aortic valve implantation, researchers say

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain There was no apparent benefit to continuing oral anticoagulants compared with interruption in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), according to late-breaking research presented in

Using AI to support heart attack diagnosis in emergency department does not improve patient outcomes, research finds

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Using artificial intelligence (AI) to aid clinical decision making in identifying and managing myocardial infarction (MI; heart attack) in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED)