Talk:Cardiology

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Moved

Moved from the article: A network of nerves on the outer wall of the heart guide regular electric pulses that cause the ventricles and auricles to contract at different intervals to maximize the pump action. This is rather misleading, in fact the heart generates its own electric impulses to coordinate it's muscular action; the heart nerves just regulate this electric action to adapt cardiac output to the body's needs. I don't know how to put this into plain English. Anybody? Kosebamse 17:01 Apr 12, 2003 (UTC)

Not sure. :-) It's very misleading and somewhat confusing. Is the author talking about the electrical conduction system ofname the heart (SA node, AV node, etc.), or external influences on the system (ie: vagal innervation of the heart)??? Also, they're not at different intervals, unless the individual has complete heart block. Ksheka 15:59, Apr 17, 2004 (UTC)

heart rate

- (running off, may get the chance to add more later- Nunh-huh 20:05, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Spun off

I spun off this as List of cardiac pharmaceutical agents, but it needs references. RJFJR (talk) 16:36, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Vascular Medicine ?

Any plans for a section on Vascular Medicine ? Just curious .....
PFHLai 01:54, 2004 May 18 (UTC)

Dropped off my radar. :-) I typically add topics as I think of them. I definitely want a good vascular medicine portion. After all, the field of Cardiology has (in the last few years) been expanding into Cardiovascular Medicine. Please add any topics you feel belong to the vascular disease portion (which I'll create now... :-) ) Ksheka 15:25, May 20, 2004 (UTC)

Great, thanks. I've added a few items already. I look forward to reading more about Vascular Medicine (and wikifying the pages. ^_^ ) Pulmonary hypertension causes hypertrophy in the right ventricle, but I don't quite know where I should put this. I also don't know where to put embolism and stroke. These are relevant topics in Vascular Medicine, but not necessarily in Cardiology. And I suppose having a page on endothelial dysfunction would be a good idea.

PFHLai 10:29, 2004 May 22 (UTC)

Pulmonary circulation should be it's own page. It should describe oxygenation of the blood, and eventually explain the shunting of blood that occurs in fetal development. Under this heading, Pulmonary hypertension and Pulmonary embolism should reside. Left ventricular hypertrophy and Right ventricular hypertrophy should go under diseases of the hyocardium. Not the best solution, but feel free if you have a better one. Ksheka

That Pulmonary circulation page needs to be expanded. You have good suggestions for its content.

Someone has written up the Pulmonary hypertension page today. I found Cor pulmonale there, and added this to your list of cardiology topics under congestive heart failure.

PFHLai 19:58, 2004 May 23 (UTC)

I think a big part of the problem is that to make a proper catagorization of all the diseases, some of them have to show up in multiple places. I have a similar problem with the cardiac pharmacologic agents. Ksheka 13:12, May 22, 2004 (UTC)

I don't see a big need to make perfectly clean-cut categorization of every disease. It's not possible, anyway. A little redundancy seems perfectly alright to me.  :-) It's the internet, where we can click to go to a new page quite easily. We can have internal links to alert readers to See also other actions of a particular drug / hormone / neurotransmitter, and other aspects of a particular disease / syndrome .....etc. This way, I hope, things would be less stressful for Wiki-Doctors like you.  :-)

PFHLai 19:58, 2004 May 23 (UTC)

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Can anyone take a closer look to ouabain. strange claims there without valid references. Jeff

Does anyone mind...?

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Does anyone mind if I attempt to organize the indices that comprise this article into cohesive paragraphs? Flesh them out a little? Synwolf 03:19, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Having a line or two at the beginning of each section is probably a good idea, as a description of the section. As for converting it all into text, that's really not how I saw this page. The majority of this page should act as a table of contents to direct the reader to more specific information. Ksheka 17:53, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Salary

$80,000 average salary????? It's at least quadruple that! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.119.229.70 (talk) 23:38, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Isochrone map

Not knowing anything about cardiology, I don't know where's the best place in this article to link to isochrone map, per WP:BUILD. -- Trevj (talk) 09:04, 28 March 2012 (UTC)

Statistics

I would like to update the mortality rates caused by CVD. I plan to update "cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and caused 29.34% of all deaths in 2002.[citation needed]". Ghusky18 (talk) 01:22, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Pediatric Cardiology Proposed Edits

I would like to extend the Pediatric Cardiology section. There are currently only a few sentences about it, but I would like to go more into detail about the founder of pediatric cardiology, different heart diseases that are prevalent in children, and the some statistics that are related to these diseases. I would like to add some information and a link to Helen B. Taussig's page because she was the founder of pediatric cardiology. I would also like to talk about Tetralogy of Fallot and other congenital diseases as well as the statistics of these diseases. I think it would be convenient to have all of this information located in one place.Erikawicher98 (talk) 03:20, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Overall Impressions of the Article

The overall status is best described as "detailed but requires more refinement and detail". The article's strengths lie in its all-encompassing nature by hitting many of the key points that reside under "Cardiology" as a topic. In addition, the article is very strong in including links associated with important words guiding readers to other Wikipedia articles to gain more context on the subject as well as in the number of sources that is associated with the article. The article can be improved with more images, the addition of information in light sections, the addition of citations where currently necessary, and clearer distinctions for headings and subheadings. I would argue that on a 1-10 scale for completeness, this article is at a 7.5. The article is well-developed in the beginning half and progressively moves to slightly underdeveloped in the second half.Pet03950 (talk) 19:10, 2 September 2024 (UTC)