AHA Updates CPR Guidelines on Cardiac Arrest After Poisoning The American Heart Association (AHA) has released a focused update on managing patients with cardiac arrest or life-threatening toxicity due to poisoning. The update reflects treatment advances and new knowledge, including the use of venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) for patients whose condition is refractory to poison antidotes and other therapies.

Nobel Prize Awarded to Covid Vaccine Pioneers The physiology or medicine prize for Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman recognized work that led to the development of vaccines that were administered to billions around the world.

Hospital Volumes Slashed by More Than Half During Pandemic As US hospitals begin to reopen for elective procedures, a new report outlines the damage that the COVID-19 pandemic has done to the facilities' patient volumes and revenues.

COVID-19: AHA Guidance on Hypertension, Latest on Angiotensin Link The American Heart Association (AHA) has issued new guidance for patients with hypertension during the COVID-19 outbreak. At the same time, several new review articles have been published further exploring the possible relationship between the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) and the virus.

СOVID-19 and cardiovascular disease: current articles

ACC Clinical Bulletin Focuses on Cardiac Implications of Coronavirus (COVID-19) The bulletin provides background on the epidemic, which was first reported in late December 2019, and looks at early cardiac implications from case reports.

Eating An Egg A Day Is A-OK, Despite Heart Disease History, New Study Suggests Interest in high-protein and high-fat diets like the keto diet keeps growing, but concerns about the health effects of many foods on those diets remain high. For at least one of those foods—the simple protein-packed egg—a new, large-scale study suggests that devouring one a day is fine for most people, even those with a history of heart disease.

Marijuana may cause the same cardiovascular damage as cigarettes More than two million Americans with heart disease are using or have used marijuana - and it could put them at risk of dangerously heavy bleeding and other complications, a new study warns.

Don't Stop the Statin! Christopher P. Cannon Lipid lowering with statins is one of the most beneficial therapies in cardiovascular medicine, with evidence from hundreds of randomized clinical trials, including >25 large cardiovascular outcomes trials in the Cholesterol Treatment Trialists (CTT) collaboration.

Expert point of view Strategies to Overcome Residual Risk During Statins Era