The syndrome of cardiogenic shock has been defined as the inability of the heart -- as a result of impairment of its pumping function -- to deliver sufficient blood flow to the tissues to meet resting ...

Hemodynamic instability is an insufficient blood flow in the body. It is a potential symptom of several conditions, such as high blood pressure or heart disease. Hemodynamics often refers to the basic ...

The most tremendous advancements in the field of cardiovascular medicine over the past two decades, I’d argue, have been in the areas of structural heart disease and imaging. In the 1960s and 1970s, ...

Cardiogenic shock is characterized by depression of cardiac function that leads to low blood pressure, coronary ischemia, and further decreased cardiac contractility resulting in tissue hypoxemia. The ...