CardioExchange, an NEJM practice community for medical professionals dedicated to improving cardiac patient care, was active from 2009 to 2015. CardioExchange fostered discussion between clinicians from across the globe.
Many countries rely on air-quality indices to inform the public and help protect people during short-term increases in air pollution. Their use has important societal and economic implications.
In a cluster-randomized trial involving patients having major noncardiac surgery, tranexamic acid reduced the need for red-cell transfusion during hospitalization and was noninferior to placebo for venous thromboembolism within 90 days.
The EPA has decided to stop considering the monetary value of public health benefits in federal rulemaking related to air pollution. This decision could have profound health consequences.
Every year, many millions of surgical patients worldwide are unnecessarily exposed to a higher-than-necessary risk of blood transfusion because they do not receive a single dose of tranexamic acid just before the surgery. This failing is due not to a lack of high-quality scientific evidence on the overall safety, efficacy,...
Atrial fibrillation is one of the most common cardiac conditions and is associated with important adverse effects on quality of life, major cardiovascular and neurovascular outcomes, survival, and health care use. Improved outcomes have been seen with pursuit of sinus rhythm,1 and catheter ablation has been more effective...