Publications by authors named "Leonie Rose Bovino"
Cardiac sarcoidosis is an infiltrative cardiomyopathy that results from granulomatous inflammation of the myocardium and may present with high-grade conduction disease, ventricular arrhythmias, and right or left ventricular dysfunction. Over the past several decades, the prevalence of cardiac sarcoidosis has increased. Definitive histological confirmation is often not possible, so clinicians frequently face uncertainty about the accuracy of diagnosis.
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- * Patients with pulmonary hypertension often need noncardiac surgery, but their condition can lead to higher rates of complications and death during the perioperative period.
- * The statement outlines a multistep process for managing pulmonary hypertension in noncardiac surgery, focusing on classification, risk assessment, preoperative optimization, and careful management during and after surgery, while also noting the lack of strong evidence in this area and the need for more research.
Evidence indicates that nurses inconsistently engage in evidence-based practice (EBP). This cross-sectional study of 402 nurses at a medical-surgical hospital identifies strategies for augmenting EBP. Nurses' EBP beliefs scores were higher than their EBP implementation scores.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPractice standards for electrocardiographic monitoring recommend continuous ST-segment monitoring (C-STM) in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with signs and/or symptoms of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), but few studies have evaluated its use in the ED. We compared time to diagnosis and 30-day adverse events before and after implementation of C-STM. We also evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of C-STM in detecting ischemia and infarction.
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