Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. In March, new technology at the Wisconsin Heart Hospital in ...

Under full anesthesia, a small metallic clip is threaded from a patient's thigh to his or her heart through a plastic tube. The clip is then attached to a valve of the heart, and left there. This ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Not fasting before cardiac catheterization procedures with conscious sedation was just as safe as fasting.

Folks undergoing cardiac catheterization procedures to diagnose heart problems may be able to safely skip the traditional pre-op fasting that's now the norm, new research shows. "Just as our ...

CMS is proposing to add 12 cardiac catheterization procedures to its coverage list for ambulatory surgical centers (ASC) as the agency looks to accelerate a shift to the lower-cost settings. The ...

Holding patients NPO before cardiac catheterization procedures was not safer but did come with costs, a randomized trial showed. No restrictions on oral intake didn't increase the risk of the primary ...

Stereotaxis has launched the Synchrony system for cath laboratories after receiving 510 (k) clearance from the US Food and ...

As the US healthcare system continues to grapple with the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, and as states begin reopening facilities for elective procedures, healthcare providers are facing ...

An eight-year HonorHealth Research Institute clinical trial, using non-surgical techniques, showed 86% of patients with a type of usually fatal low blood pressure known as "structural shock" survived ...

Samaritan Medical Center has begun construction on a $12 million cardiac catheterization lab, the first of its kind in the ...