EchoNous KOSMOS 3-in-1 Ultrasound, Electronic Stethoscope, and ECG Helps with COVID-19
EchoNous, a developer of novel ultrasounds, has found a way to leverage multiple critical clinical technologies within a single device. The result is KOSMOS, a handheld 3-in-1 device consisting of an ultrasound, electronic stethoscope, and an ECG, all linked via artificial technology.
When COVID-19 was hitting NYC earlier this year, EchoNous was able to use KOSMOS to help diagnose COVID patients and to inform on treatment strategies. We had a lovely chat with Dr. Richard Hoppmann, a key member of EchoNous, Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of South Carolina, and the Director of the Ultrasound I...
Source: Medgadget - September 21, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Cardiology Critical Care Diagnostics Exclusive Informatics Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
NSTEMI : Is it the baby of STEMI or a Neo NSTEMI ?
It was April 15th 1912, Titanic, the Invincible, had just sunk into the dark waters of Atlantic coast off Newfoundland. Exactly same time around, Dr. James Herrick, In Chicago,Illinois was busy documenting the first diagnosed case of acute coronary thrombosis. A new disease was born ie Myocardial Infarction. This was also the era of the Noble Prize-winning Invention of the ECG machine by Waller, Einthoven, and Thomas Lewis & co that sow the seeds for the speciality of electro-cardiology.
Though much was studied about MI with pathological specimens in the subsequent decades, there was a lull in the efforts to define t...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - September 14, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: acute coronary syndrome herrick james stemi nomenclature issues of acs non q mi NSTEACS nstemi NSTEMI new definition 2020 Source Type: blogs
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Source: The A and P Professor - September 13, 2020 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
Exact Models of Aortic Heart Valves Help Prepare for Minimally Invasive Procedures
Complex transcatheter cardiac procedures, such as valve replacements, are often difficult to prepare for. Small anatomical differences can make big impacts on outcomes. Clinicians and researchers have been using models, both virtual and 3D printed, to improve procedural outcomes, design new devices, and to invent new therapeutic techniques. These models generally help professionals to understand nuances between patients, but they don’t reproduce the exact shapes and dynamics of moving tissues and structures.
Now researchers at the University of Minnesota, with help from Medtronic, have developed a way of 3D print...
Source: Medgadget - August 31, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Materials Radiology Source Type: blogs
3 days of shoulder and chest pain, and now cardiogenic shock
I was texted these ECGs." Bad chest pressure with severe left shoulder pain 3 nights ago. Then SOB and nausea the next day. Now appears to be in cardiogenic shock. "(Later review showed systolic BPs in the range of 55 to 83. So she was quite hypotensive.)First recorded at time zero:There is sinus rhythm. Rate of only 70 suggests some beta blockade.The QT is very long.There is T-wave inversion in inferior leads, suggestive of reperfused or subacute MI.There is a Q-wave in III, so this may be subacuteThere is ST depression in V2-V4.20 minutes:Again, very long QT.Now, T-waves are upright in inferior leads, i...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - August 27, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
