Matt Batcheldor Archive — Page 34 of 50
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January 16, 2020
VUMC tops in nation for number of heart transplants performed last year
Vanderbilt University Medical Center tied for first place as the busiest heart transplant program by volume in the United States in 2019. -
January 16, 2020
Global effort tracks causes, treatment of acute heart failure
Patients in North America wait a median of three hours to receive intravenous therapy for acute heart failure, while no other region in the world waited for more than 1.2 hours, according to a global study whose lead author and co-primary investigator is Sean Collins, MD, MSc, professor of Emergency Medicine. -
January 13, 2020
Five surgeries in nine days. A month in intensive care. An amazing recovery.
Kyle Mullicane's is the only medical story you will read today that features a hallucination taking place in a Vegas steakhouse. -
January 10, 2020
Fourth quarter DAISY Awards honor four extraordinary nurses
DAISY Awards are given to great nurses all over the United States and in many other countries. This is Vanderbilt's latest group. -
January 9, 2020
Interim directors of Cardiovascular Medicine named
Dan Roden, MD, and Daniel Munoz, have been named interim directors of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. -
December 20, 2019
Hepatitis C–positive donors a viable option to expand heart donor pool
Hepatitis C-positive heart donors offer a strategy to safely expand the donor pool and allow more patients to undergo transplant.