April 25, 2018 — HeartFlow Inc. announced that the National Health Service (NHS) England has chosen the HeartFlow...
Cardiac Diagnostics
This channel includes news and new technology innovations for cardiac diagnostic systems or techniques. This includes laboratory testing, blood tests, Tropoin testing, ECG, electrocardiogram systems, point of care testing systems, genetic testing and studies showing new ways to diagnose heart diseases.
News | Stroke | April 24, 2018
April 24, 2018 — Men under 50 who smoked were more likely to have a...
The automated external defibrillator add-on developed by Rice University students is a pad of needles that break through the skin's natural impedance barrier to deliver an electric shock to the heart of a patient in cardiac arrest. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)
News | Defibrillator Monitors | April 16, 2018
April 16, 2018 — The skin presents a formidable barrier to life-saving defibrillators, but a team of students from...
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Most professional athletes participate in cardiovascular screening to identify often-asymptomatic heart disorders, but the debate continues on whether to mandate ECGs as part of pre-participation screening for student athletes. Photo courtesy of Play for Patrick.
Feature | Sudden Cardiac Arrest | October 16, 2018
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is the leading medical cause of death in young athletes and its impact is consistent...
News | Congenital Heart | March 30, 2018
March 30, 2018 — Bariatric surgery is predicted to cut in half the...
News | Heart Failure | March 29, 2018
March 29, 2018 — Abbott announced the company has initiated the landmark GUIDE-HF...
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Use of traditional Holter monitor leads can be an issue for patient compliance and comfort. The newer generation ambulatory cardiac monitors use a small, adhesive patch that sticks directly on the patient's chest and allows them to shower and go about daily activities without a belt mounted monitor or leads getting in the way. This is especially important for longer term monitoring of seven days or longer.
Feature | ECG | September 27, 2018
Advances in the technology of wearable cardiac monitors are improving both the experience of the patient and the...
Blog | March 26, 2018
I have been looking for new ways to show readers interesting things I find during the medical conferences I attend,...
An example of the new generation of inexpensive, wearable cardiac monitors that are seeing increased usage. This is the Cardiac Insight Cardea Solo device. After the monitoring period is over, the wearable patch is torn open to retrieve a data pod that is inserted into a reader to download the data. The software automatically creates reports based on the data, complete with waveforms for various cardiac measures.
Blog | Cardiac Diagnostics | May 10, 2018
The show floors at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2018 meeting in March and at the Heart Rhythm...
News | Atrial Fibrillation | March 27, 2018
March 27, 2018 — Depression may increase the risk for...
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An example of an automated summary cardiac monitor report from Medicalgorithmics' PocketECG system. Most of the the report parameters can be opened as separate pages with additional automated report summaries and graphical data charts.
Blog | Remote Monitoring | June 20, 2018
There is a movement toward real-time, remote cardiac monitoring with the latest generation of...
News | Blood Testing | March 26, 2018
March 26, 2018 — Measurement of cardiac troponin in stable patients with chest pain using the ultra-sensitive...
Videos | Cardiac Diagnostics | March 26, 2018
James Januzzi, M.D., Roman W. DeSanctis Endowed Distinguished Clinical Scholar in Medicine, and director of the...
Videos | ACC | March 21, 2018
DAIC Editor Dave Fornell takes a tour of some of the most interesting new technologies on the expo floor at the 2018...
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The Medicalgorithmics PocketECG Holter monitor offers real-time, remote, wireless ECG recording and tracking. Real-time data review may be able to help diagnose an arrhythmia quickly, reducing the amount of time the patient needs to be monitored. Also, 24/7 data offers a more complete picture of the patient's health, rather than fragments of data from older Holter and event monitor systems.
Blog | ECG Wireless Remote Access | June 06, 2018
There is a shift occurring in...
Videos | Womens Cardiovascular Health | March 21, 2018
A discussion with Doreen DeFaria Yeh, M.D., associate director, Massachusetts General Hospital Adult Congenital...
News | ACC | March 15, 2018
March 15, 2018 – A newly-designed wristband and corresponding app that works with a smartwatch can accurately...
