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The Duke Activity Status Index (DASI) is an assessment tool used to evaluate the functional capacity of patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD), such as coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, and heart failure. [1] In clinical practice, DASI can be used to assess the effects of medical treatments and cardiac rehabilitation as well. [2]
Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA) is a surgical technique in which the temperature of the body falls significantly (between 20 °C (68 °F) to 25 °C (77 °F)) and blood circulation is stopped for up to one hour. It is used when blood circulation to the brain must be stopped because of delicate surgery within the brain, or because of ...
In 1936, Julian Deryl Hart, a Duke surgeon introduced ultraviolet lights in the operating rooms to kill airborne germs. In 1956, Duke surgeons were the first to use systemic hypothermia during cardiac surgery. This is now standard practice worldwide. The Medical School and Hospital were renamed the Duke University Medical Center in 1957.
However, if the patient is hemodynamically unstable or unconscious, the shock is given immediately upon confirmation of the arrhythmia. When synchronized electrical cardioversion is performed as an elective procedure, the shocks can be performed in conjunction with drug therapy until sinus rhythm is attained. After the procedure, the patient is ...
Duke has interest in 6-8 forward Maliq Brown, who played at Syracuse last season, and 6-6 forward Mason Gillis from Purdue as NCAA Transfer Portal prospects for next season’s team
Duke would also have Ngongba in its interior playing rotation. The Blue Devils are also actively pursuing 6-6, 225-pound forward Mason Gillis, a graduate transfer from Purdue who has one season of ...
Updated Duke scholarship chart - 5 open for next season Departures (10): NBA - Filipowski, McCain Portal - Roach, Mitchell, Blakes, Schutt, Reeves, Power, Stewart
In 1990, Duke geneticists invented a three-minute test to screen newborns for over 30 metabolic diseases at one time. This practice has since become standard worldwide. In 1992, Duke's cancer center became the first hospital to develop an outpatient bone marrow transplant program. That same year, the hospital performed its first lung and heart ...