BANNOCKBURN, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Advanced heart failure patients who receive home infusion of inotropic therapy benefit from improved quality of life, according to Option Care research presented at ...

BANNOCKBURN, Ill., May 16, 2018 – Survival may improve when advanced heart failure patients receiving home infusion of inotropic therapy are also receiving guideline-directed care, suggest results of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . MORRISTOWN, N.J. — In this video, Audrey Kleet, RN, MS, ACNP-BC, CCRN, CCTC, CHFN, of the Gagnon Cardiovascular ...

Inotropic therapy remains a cornerstone in the management of heart failure, targeting the fundamental deficit of impaired myocardial contractility. Traditional positive inotropes act by increasing ...

Reduction in the frequency of hospitalizations, by delaying additional episodes of acute decompensated heart failure; and Weaning patients with severe heart failure who are currently dependent on ...

Against expectations, critically ill people in cardiogenic shock fared similarly receiving one widely used inotrope or another in the small DOREMI trial. Patients had the same clinical outcomes on ...

Orlando, FL - It's an implantable device consisting of a pulse generator and three transvenous endocardial leads that fix to the right side of the heart, but it's not a pacemaker. It's the OPTIMIZER ...

French centers tested the calcium-sensitizing inotrope levosimendan in patients with severe but potentially reversible cardiogenic shock recently put on VA-ECMO. Early levosimendan did not facilitate ...

Cardiac contractility modulation (CCM) is the application of nonexcitatory electrical signals to the myocardium, during the absolute refractory period of the action potential, to elicit a positive ...

Because glucagon in animals has positive inotropic and chronotropic effects in the presence of beta-adrenergic blockade, catecholamine depletion or full digitalization, its cardiovascular effects in ...