
There has been an increasing trend in cardiology to use longer term remote monitoring wearable ECG tracking devices. This is an example of of the Cardiac Insight Cardea Solo adhesive patch device.
News | ECG | February 02, 2021
February 2, 2021 — Cardiac Insight, Inc. a healthcare company specializing in wearable cardiac sensors and automated...

A study of more than 100 million Americans in 3,123 counties found a correlation between cardiac death and their level of income. Getty Images
News | Cardiac Diagnostics | February 02, 2021
February 2, 2021 — A new study has found in the U.S. shows higher economic prosperity was associated with a small...

The most popular story in the month of January 2021 was on a small study that showed the new iPhone 12 can cause ICDs to stop functioning. COVID-19 content continues to rank among the top stories, including an article on the possible long-term cardiac consequences of COVID-19 infection in COVID long-haulers.
Feature | February 01, 2021 | By Dave Fornell, Editor
February 1, 2021 — Here is the list of the most popular content on the Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (DAIC)...
Feature | Wearables | December 15, 2020
COVID-19 has posed challenges for physicians whose cardiac patients are at-risk and reluctant to schedule an office...

Medtronic's DiamondTemp Ablation (DTA) system is FDA cleared to treat patients with recurrent, symptomatic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) and who have been unresponsive to drug therapy. The DiamondTemp system is the first FDA-approved, temperature-controlled, irrigated radiofrequency (RF) ablation system with diamonds currently available to deliver ablations.
News | Atrial Fibrillation | January 29, 2021
January 29, 2021 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Medtronic's DiamondTemp Ablation (DTA)...
News | January 29, 2021
January 29, 2020 — North America’s medical devices industry saw a drop of 17.3% in overall deal activity during the...

Patients with atrial fibrillation are at far greater risk of a catastrophic COVID outcomes, so steps should be taken to reduce AFib risks in addition to precautions against COVID like making, hand washing and social distancing. Images include an electromap from an AF ablation procedure and a COVID-19 from the CDC.
Feature | Atrial Fibrillation | January 27, 2021 | By John D. Day, M.D., T. Jared Bunch, M.D., and Matthew D. LaPlante
In our most challenging and distressing days, it is nice to think about a post-COVID-19 world.
But while this pandemic...

The Philips AAA Model integrates software and Philips 3-D ultrasound technologies into a single solution to automatically segment and quantify the size of the aneurysm sac for surveillance of known native and post-EVAR treated AAAs.
News | Cardiovascular Ultrasound | January 27, 2021
January 27, 2021 — Philips Healthcare has introduced the Philips Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Model, providing...

Heavily calcified coronary arteries seen on a CT scan of the heart. Research at the New York Institute of Technology will create blood flow modeling to show the impact of calcium in arteries as part of a project to develop treatments to remove calcium.
January 27, 2021 — A New York Institute of Technology research team has secured a five-year $1.8 million grant from the...

The Occlutech implantable Atrial Flow Regulator (AFR) maintains an interatrial shunt with a predetermined diameter allowing for controlled blood flow from the left to the right atrium enabling the left atrium to decompress and lower left atrial pressure. This reduced left atrial pressure reduces heart failure symptoms and improves exercise tolerance.
News | Heart Failure | January 27, 2021
January, 27, 2021 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Occlutech a Breakthrough Device designation...

OTC ECG devices can help detect abnormal heart rhythms in the general population, and this technology will continue to improve.
Feature | ECG | March 11, 2020
Apple created a stir when it announced in 2018 that its Apple Watch Series 4 was the first consumer health and fitness...

The Pedra Blood Perfusion Index tracks real-time changes in foot tissue perfusion attendant with balloon inflation and deflation during an angioplasty procedure.
January 26, 2021 — Pedra Technology, a privately held company, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug...
News | Stents Drug Eluting | January 26, 2021
January 26, 2021 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Boston Scientific's Synergy Megatron Drug-...
News | Heart Failure | January 25, 2021
January 25, 2021 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Merck's Verquvo (vericiguat). It is the first...

Several wearable, less-obtrusive ECG monitors have been cleared by the FDA for longer wear. This example is Cardiac Insight’s Cardea SOLO device.
Feature | ECG | February 19, 2020
When the patients of Michael Boler, M.D. need cardiac monitoring, the Holter monitor is no longer his first choice. “...

An example of 3-D computer aided design (CAD) software from Materialise being used at Henry Ford Hospital to evaluate left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction from a Sapian TAVR valve virtually implanted in the mitral valve position. Henry Ford uses both 3-D printing and CAD to plan and guide complex structural heart procedures.
Feature | Medical 3-D Printing | January 24, 2021 | By Dave Fornell, Editor
With increasing complexity of interventional structural heart disease and congenital heart disease interventions, 3-D...

Cardiologists are taking a closer look at the possible long-term cardiovascular effects on COVID long-hauler patients who still show symptoms long after they should be recovered from the virus. Getty Images
Feature | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | January 22, 2021 | Dave Fornell, Editor
With nearly a year of experience with the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) virus, it has been found that some post-COVID patients...

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Blog | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | January 21, 2021
As of January 2021, in the United States we are now on month 10 of the COVID-19 pandemic. One year ago, we followed...