Dr Docherty’s research examines optimal care practices for patients who are admitted to intensive care with pre-existing cardiovascular disease.
Around 7 million people in the UK have cardiovascular disease, including more than 1 in 4 people in hospitals’ intensive care units. The heart muscle’s extremely high oxygen demands make the organ particularly vulnerable to becoming oxygen deprived when the patient is struggling with a range of other problems.
In this short expert talk, ‘Myocardial injury in critically ill patients with cardiovascular disease: undiagnosed, modifiable and associated with mortality’, Dr Docherty explains her working undertaking a systematic review of existing research on patients with cardiovascular disease in intensive care. She concludes that we need a more proactive approach for at-risk patients and a more liberal transfusion threshold to reduce the risk of heart attacks, and so also reduce mortality rates.
Dr Annemarie Docherty is a SCREDS Clinical Lecturer in Critical Care at the University of Edinburgh.
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