COLORADO CARDIOVASCULAR OUTCOMES RESEARCH

The Colorado Cardiovascular Outcomes Research consortium includes researchers from the Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Denver Health Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente and the University of Colorado Denver participate in CCOR. CCOR is positioned to be a leading cardiovascular research group because of the highly collegial and collaborative culture of the group, the unique data sources available to the collaborative and the opportunity to devise and test changes to clinical practice in four distinct delivery systems.

DENVER HEALTH • DENVER VA MEDICAL CENTER • UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER • KAISER COLORADO

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes current issue

SCAAR: Could cheap heparin replace pricy bivalirudin in PCI for non-STE-ACS?
Investigators for a new SCAAR registry analysis point out that bivalirudin has been widely studied only against a combination of...
Cardiac-arrest survival highest at hospitals with the fewest
Hospitals that excel at preventing cardiac arrests also have higher survivor rates when an arrest occurs.

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BIOFLOW II: New bioabsorbable-polymer/thin-strut sirolimus stent shows promise
The new sirolimus-eluting stent boasting a biodegradable polymer and a thin-strut design that is 25% thinner than the market-leading permanent-polymer...
No point to "aggressive" sodium, fluid restriction seen in acute HF
All it did in a small randomized trial was to make the patients thirsty; it didn't do anything for weight...
ADVANCE one-year data reassuring on mild PV leaks with CoreValve
Full clinical outcomes presented at EuroPCR today "demonstrate low one-year mortality, low stroke rates, and low rates of aortic regurgitation...

COLORADO CARDIOVASCULAR OUTCOMES RESEARCH

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