The COVID-19 pandemic posed a challenge for health care providers to quickly lay out plans for effective treatments for those with the virus. Although there isn’t yet a definitive treatment for COVID-19, there are options depending on your symptoms and th ...
What Should Heart Patients Know About COVID-19?
By now, it’s clear that COVID-19 poses a dangerous risk to many people with pre-existing conditions. For those with a cardiac condition, there are even more potential risks. According to early reports, 40 percent of patients hospitalized due to COVID-19 h ...
Heart Health Outcomes of COVID-19
Although health professionals knew early on that contracting the COVID-19 virus could lead to respiratory infection and permanent lung damage, it’s now becoming more clear that the virus could have lasting effects on the way your heart works as well, even ...
Home Exercises for Cardiac Rehabilitation
If you’ve experienced heart attack, heart failure, angioplasty or heart surgery, you’re probably enrolled in a cardiac rehabilitation program with your health care provider. Cardiac rehab is an important part of managing and improving your heart health. ...
The Effects of Smoking and Heart Heath
It’s long been known that smoking is one of the leading causes of lung cancer in America. But did you know it can greatly affect the health of your heart too? Despite smoking rates in the United States continuing to decrease, down to just 14% of the popu ...
Is Daily Aspirin Therapy Right for You?
Is Daily Aspirin Therapy Right for You? “Daily aspirin therapy can be a lifesaving option.” Says Enakshi Bajpai, D.O., Cardiologist at Inspira Health and member of the Cardiac Partners at Cooper and Inspira network. “But it isn’t for everyone. It’s impor ...
Impella Cardiac Device Helps Patients Recover Closer to Home
The doctors at Inspira Medical Centers Woodbury and Vineland have a new tool in their arsenal to help a damaged heart pump enough blood to support major organs, while also giving the heart time to recover, according to Ashfaque Unwala, MD, cardiac cathet ...
Dr. M. Scott Dawson Wins Top Honors for His Award Winning Essay
M. Scott Dawson, M.D., a board-certified cardiologist with Cardiac Partners at Cooper and Inspira, recently earned first place in the Saint Joseph’s University Pedro Arrupe Center’s Graduate Ethics Essay Competition. His writing focused on expanding ...
Cooper University Health Care Becomes Region’s Only Hospital to Offer MitraClip Procedure
Heart Valve Device Offers New Options for Patients Until recently, high-risk heart patients with a severe form of leaky mitral valve disorder, called mitral regurgitation, and who were deemed too frail or sick to undergo open heart surgery had few tre ...
Cooper University Health Care First Hospital in Eastern U.S. to Treat Central Sleep Apnea With Newly Approved Device
(CAMDEN) – A medical team at Cooper University Health Care recently was the first in the eastern United States to treat a patient with central sleep apnea (CSA) with a new implantable device to stimulate breathing. Cooper is currently one of only 24 site ...