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A Wyoming House committee advanced a proposal Tuesday to triple the state’s contribution to the $182 million rebuild of crumbling LaPrele Dam to $90 million. The 115-year-old dam is close to failing.

So far, we've not seen a State of Play event announced for 2025. This is to be expected given how early it is, but now that the last one is well and truly in the rear-view mirror, we expect an ...

Inotropic drugs effectively enhance myocardial performance. With increasing dosage, however, this potential benefit needs to be judged against the side-effect of raised myocardial oxygen consumption, ...

Initiation or switching β blockers is not recommended in patients experiencing a severe decompensation of HF (e.g., requiring intravenous positive inotropic agents, vasodilators, or mechanical ...

Auscultation is most effective when the infant is in a quiet state. Warming of the hands ... Patients who are receiving inotropic or vasopressor agents may not be hypotensive at the time that ...

In addition to its inotropic, cardioprotective, and vasodilatory effects, levosimendan may have protective effects on kidneys, liver, lungs, and gastrointestinal and central nervous systems through ...

It appears that in cardiac muscle an inotropic shift of V max of the contractile element cannot be distinguished from a shift due to change in fiber length, thus invalidating it as an index of ...

Clinical consequences of heart failure are fatigue, dyspnea, and progressive impairment of exercise tolerance. Regular exercise training is associated with health-improving effects. In patients ...

Objective Tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) M-mode through the mitral leaflet is an easy and precise method to estimate the cardiac time intervals. The aim was to evaluate the usability of the cardiac time ...

KANNUR: A Kannur man’s ‘brush’ with death was the result of a series of misjudgments and medical lapses, it has come to light ...

1 Department of Women's and Children's Health, Neonatal Unit, Liverpool Women's Hospital, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Inotropes are medicines that increase the force of cardiac muscle ...