May 14, 2020 – Medtronic announced results from late-breaking clinical trials evaluating the MyCareLink Heart mobile app and the Micra Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS), products that provide needed care for patients and optimal management of their symptoms – while reducing potential exposure between patients and their clinicians. During the current COVID-19 pandemic, procedures and therapies that reduce exposure to other people are important because that also reduces the potential for spreading the virus.

This podcast is an interview with Ehtisham Mahmud, M.D., FSCAI, president of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) and chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at UC San Diego Medical Center, explains the SCAI precaution guidelines for treating patients in the cath lab under the COVID-19 pandemic. He explains the how cardiology departments in the U.S. are operating to treat acute patients during novel coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) containment efforts.

May 13, 2020 — Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) using biventricular pacing (BVP) or His bundle pacing (HBP) is effective in patients with heart failure (HF), bundle branch block or RV pacing.

May 13, 2020 — The PRECEPT study testing the use of the Biosense Webster Thermocool Smarttouch SF Catheter for the treatment of persistent atrial fibrillation (AF), resulted in freedom from any documented, symptomatic atrial arrhythmias at 15 months post-procedure for eight out of ten study participants (80.4 percent).[1] The trial was presented as a late-breaking study at the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) 2020 Science virtual meeting.

May 13, 2020 — The patient-administered nasal spray drug etripamil did not meet its primary endpoint in treating patients with paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT), according to th results of the NODE-301 Trial presented as a late-breaking study at the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) 2020 virtual meeting.

May 12, 2020 — Medtronic has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its Cobalt and Crome implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD) and cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillators (CRT-D),the first Medtronic “high power” devices to offer connected health, including the ability for clinicians to program devices from a physical distance,thereby reducing potential exposure to the virus that causes COVID-19.

May 12, 2020 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the next-generation CardioFocus Inc. HeartLight X3 Endoscopic Ablation System for the treatment of drug refractory recurrent symptomatic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF).

May 12, 2020 — Medis acquired Advanced Medical Imaging Development S.r.l. (AMID), a developer and supplier specialized  in cardiovascular mechanics and innovative image processing in ultrasound and other modalities. The strategic acquisition will expedite Medis' expansion in new areas of cardiovascular disease, and secure its access to key technologies to further enhance its innovative portfolio of post-processing solutions for X-ray, MRI, CT, IVUS, OCT and ultrasound devices.

May 11, 2020 — The American Society for Preventive Cardiology (ASPC) is collaborating with Intervent International to provide its members and their patients free access to Intervent's evidence-based, personalized, online/digital, educational resources and content.

May 11, 2020 – Competitive athletes are a rapidly growing population worldwide. Habitual vigorous exercise, a defining characteristic of this population, can cause various changes in cardiac structure and function known as cardiac remodeling. Clinicians treating these athletes need to be prepared as optimal use of multimodality imaging in competitive athletes requires both an understanding of exercise-induced cardiac remodeling and the strengths and weaknesses of available imaging techniques. 

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