Press Releases
Faster, Better Care for Heart Attack Victims
LUMEN 2009: Healthcare professionals and physicians come together to improve the state of heart attack care in the U.S.
Miami, FL (March 19, 2009) – Heart disease kills more Americans than all diseases combined. In the U.S. today, a person suffers a heart attack every 26 seconds. LUMEN 2009: The Symposium on Optimal Treatments for Acute MI recently hosted hundreds of paramedics, emergency department staff, critical care nurses, cardiovascular laboratory technologists and nurses, internists, general practitioners, hospitalists, intensivists, clinical and interventional cardiologists, cardiac and vascular surgeons, and hospital administrators, to discuss the state of America’s healthcare system and the fight to save vulnerable heart attack patients.
Stopping a Killer: LUMEN 2009 Looks to Establish National Protocol for Treating Heart Attack Patients
Number one killer of men and women can exist unchecked by local municipalities
Millstone Township, NJ (August 21, 2008) – It is the very early hours of the morning and you awake with a tightness in your chest. This uncomfortable pressure is making it difficult to breathe, and you feel lightheaded and nauseous. Your first instinct is to shrug off the fear that you might be having a heart attack and attribute your pain to heartburn from overindulging the night before or even food poisoning.
LUMEN 2009 hosts top docs in cardiac medicine focused on increasing survival rates of heart attack victims
Miami, FL (January 28, 2009) – On February 26th through the 28th, at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel in Miami Beach, FL, many of the nation’s most respected and innovative practitioners of cardiac medicine will come together at LUMEN 2009: The Symposium on Optimal Treatments for Acute MI, for the purpose of affecting America’s number one killer – heart disease. Present will be the President of the American College of Cardiology, Dr. W. Douglas Weaver, who has been an outspoken advocate for healthcare reform in the U.S.
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