Bedside cardiac assessment (BCA) involves gathering a patient's medical history, performing a physical examination, and determining the need for diagnostic testing. Physicians integrate this ...

During the follow-up, physical training promoted significant reductions of resting HR in all study subgroups and a reduction of mean BP levels in both treated and non-treated hypertensive subjects.

The practice and teaching of physical examination techniques have evolved slowly since Hippocrates' time and have been virtually unchanged since the invention of the stethoscope nearly two centuries ...

Physical activity decreases the risk of sudden cardiac death in unfit men, reveals new research. Physical activity decreases the risk of sudden cardiac death in unfit men, reveals research presented ...

Cardiac function is assessed by a variety of different measurements, which include cardiac output; blood pressure; heart rate; physical assessment findings such as abnormal heart sounds, organomegaly, ...

Community-dwelling older adults who have lower physical function are at increased risk of developing heart attack, heart failure and stroke, according to new research published in the Journal of the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More sedentary time during childhood was associated with higher cardiac work in adolescence. Clinicians should ...

Correspondence to Dr Jonathan A Drezner, Department of Family Medicine, Sports Medicine Section, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-0005, USA; jdrezner{at}uw.edu Objectives We assessed ...

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging may help physicians make decisions about which patients with suspected cardiac sarcoidosis require an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) to ...

Tragically, sudden death from cardiac arrest has taken the life of many children, teens and young adults who were otherwise seemingly healthy. Given that hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a relatively ...

WE all want to keep our sports-loving kids safe. But is a sport physical enough? Does it really protect our children while they are doing what they love? Or is there a better way? As a sports-medicine ...

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — A young Eglin Air Force Base officer died during physical training in August of last year as a result of complications from an irregular heartbeat, according to ...