"I'm so proud of these people, it's incredible, " heart transplant doctor Hector Ventura says of his colleagues.
Nearly one-third of those leads also had electrical problems, said Raed Abdelhadi, a Minneapolis Heart Institue doctor who presented the finding.
Lawyers representing Brook's parents found midwives failed to correctly monitor her heart rate or call a doctor when no heart beat could be found.
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Her house hasn't been cleaned in decades, and she thinks she can win the heart of a doctor who treated her dying mother in the early 1950s, deliriously believing her then infatuation was actually reciprocated.
Once it's clear that broken heart syndrome is the cause of your symptoms, your doctor will likely prescribe heart medications for you to take while you're in the hospital, such as angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, beta blockers or diuretics.
And although she currently isn't on any heart medication, she regularly pushes her doctor to check thoroughly for signs of developing heart disease.
If you even think you might be having a heart attack, get to a doctor or emergency room as quickly as possible!
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As with any exercise, if you're out of shape, have had back injuries in the past, or have a history of heart disease, check with your doctor before tackling that snowdrift.
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Imagine the following: your family doctor says you need emergency heart surgery and books you into the top clinic in the country, which is out of state.
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But even if it had been, that may not have helped: How would a doctor know to report a heart attack that had been caused by Vioxx, if it looked no different from any other heart attack?
Instead, the patients received regular follow-up for congestive heart failure, such as appointments with their doctor, and calls every three months to verify their status in the study and to check for such events as unreported hospitalizations.
He then suffered a heart attack and, once recovered, took his doctor's advice to find something to do.
The logic of consumer-driven health care assumes that unnecessary doctor visits and procedures lie at the heart of America's health-care inflation.
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For example, the doctor could create an asthmatic patient with chronic heart disease who is taking a handful of certain drugs and is currently experiencing anaphylactic shock, a severe allergic reaction.
No doctor had ever spoken to Loving about her high risk for heart disease.
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But if it isn't, you may need to see a doctor for medication or electrical cardioversion, which will stabilize your heart beat.
For 15 years, as a hospital doctor in the rural town of Tugela Ferry, in the heart of South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province, he had watched locals with extinguished immune systems die from infections like tuberculosis, unable to give them medicine that worked.
Within moments, Maurice's doctor had called the house and warned the retiree to be careful of a heart attack.
Rene Colwell, 50, of New York, says "fish burps" turned her off to supplements after her 2006 heart attack, but she tries to take at least half of the four capsules her doctor recommended.
GE's Medical Systems unit outfitted the Indiana Heart Hospital with 650 computers--that works out to more than six computers for every single doctor and patient.
The most suggestive scene comes within the first ten minutes, when a young doctor named Merivel (Robert Downey, Jr.) places his hand on the beating heart of a living man.
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