CES 2020: HeartHero, an Affordable At-Home AED
Automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) are common these days in airports, stadiums, and other places where there are very many people around. They are still expensive devices, and so are not as widely available as they should be.
People who are susceptible to suffering from dangerous cardiac arrhythmias but that don’t have appropriate implants would probably be safer with an AED nearby that a family member or someone else can use on them in case of an incident.
At CES 2020 in Las Vegas we learned of HeartHero, a small, portable, and cheap AED that may soon be available for purchase. Here’s our intervie...
Source: Medgadget - January 16, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Emergency Medicine Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Christmas Eve Special Gift!! Prehospital Cath Lab Activation: What do you think?
A 60-something male was sent from Dialysis for several days of SOB. He did not know his medical history well.The patient was in no distress.The paramedics recorded an ECG:Here I magnify the limb leads and precordial leads:Now of course you see the convex ST elevation in V3 and V4, and the STE in V2 that is preceded by a spike. Is this STEMI?Here is the Computer Interpretation:The medics activated the cath lab. Do you agree? I was in the ED, and whenever I hear that there has been a prehospital cath lab activation, I like to go take a look because there are many false positive activations, es...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - December 23, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Nexkin Multi-Parameter Body Monitoring Shirt Unveiled
Chronolife, a firm headquartered in Paris, France, is releasing a T-shirt that can monitor six vitals and health parameters, including a single-lead ECG, abdominal and thoracic breathing, body temperature, activity levels, and pulmonary impedance, a measure of how pulmonary vessels resist pulsatile blood flow.
The Nexkin device looks like a typical short-sleeved T-shirt. A single charge of the built-in battery can power it for 24 hours and all the readings can be monitored live on a paired smartphone when the shirt is worn. It may be possible to use the device to detect some cardiac arrhythmias.
Nexkin uses ten s...
Source: Medgadget - December 17, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 9th 2019
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Source: Fight Aging! - December 8, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
VivaLNK ’s Tiny Reusable and Wearable ECG Cleared in Europe
VivaLNK, a Silicon Valley company, won the European CE Mark for its VivaLNK multi-vital medical wearable sensor and accompanying software development kit. The reusable device sticks to the patient’s chest and can record ECG waveforms, the respiratory rate, heart rate, RR interval, as well as movement based on a three-axis accelerometer. It weighs only .26 ounces (7.5 grams) and can be used repeatedly. It may have significant impact for helping to diagnose difficult to detect cardiac arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation (AFib).
The reusability of the device should help with the economics of introducing such...
Source: Medgadget - December 3, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Informatics Source Type: blogs
Fibrosis as an Important Contributing Cause of Atrial Fibrillation
Researchers here argue that fibrosis of cardiac tissue is an important contribution to the development of atrial fibrillation in older patients. Fibrosis is a feature of many age-related conditions, a dysfunction in tissue maintenance processes that involves the generation of scar-like deposits of collagen by overactive fibroblasts. This scarring disrupts normal tissue structure and function in many organs, including the heart, and there is no good approved therapy to treat the progression of fibrosis: even slowing it is haphazard and unreliable.
This may soon change. Fibrosis appears to be caused to a large degree ...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 3, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 2nd 2019
In conclusion, T2D impairs vascular function by dysregulated autophagy. Therefore, autophagy could be a potential target for overcoming diabetic microvascular complications.
To What Degree Does Loss of Skeletal Muscle with Age Contribute to Immunosenescence?
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Sarcopenia, the progressive loss of muscle mass and strength, is characteristic of aging. A perhaps surprisingly large fraction of the losses can be averted by strength training, but there are nonetheless inexorable proces...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 1, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Cardiac Amyloid Buildup Correlates with Risk of Atrial Fibrillation
In this study, we sought to assess the prevalence of AF in patients with clinically undetected isolated cardiac amyloidosis (ICA) detected at autopsy and identify electrocardiographic (EKG) markers of such amyloid deposits. A total of 1083 patients were included in the study and 3.1% of patients were found to have asymptomatic ICA. Patients with ICA were older and had a higher odds of AF independent of age and CHA2DS2VASc score. Amongst patients with AF, those with ICA were more likely to have persistent forms of AF and had a lower sinus rhythm P-wave amplitude. Further studies are required to further define this entity, i...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 29, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
What is this Regular SVT?
===================================MY Comment by KEN GRAUER, MD (11/12/2019):===================================My appreciation to Kenneth Khoo for this case. This patient was hemodynamically stable. There was debate among providers in his institution as to what the rhythm in this ECG was (Figure-1).What do YOU think the rhythm is?What is the differential diagnosis?Why can you be virtually certain what this rhythm is even before treating and before any diagnostic maneuvers?Figure-1: The initial ECG in this case (See text).My Approach to this Rh...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - November 11, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: ECG Interpretation Source Type: blogs
iRhythm-Verily Partnership: Interview with iRhythm CEO Kevin King
iRhythm and Verily announced a partnership last month to “co-develop solutions intended to provide early warning, diagnosis and management for patients, particularly for those with silent or undiagnosed AF.” We spoke with iRhythm CEO Kevin King to understand how the two companies complement each other and how they can solve the problem together.
Ben Ouyang, Medgadget: Tell us about yourself.
Kevin King: I’ve been CEO of iRhythm now for seven years, since the very early days when our company was private. I’ve led the company’s growth and expansion to where we are today. By way of backgrou...
Source: Medgadget - October 11, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Ben Ouyang Tags: Cardiology Diagnostics Exclusive irhythm verily Source Type: blogs
Common hormonal treatments linked to abnormal heart rhythms and sudden death in men being treated for prostate cancer
Treatments for advanced prostate cancer that suppress testosterone, a hormone (also called an androgen) that drives the malignant cells to grow and spread, are collectively referred to as androgen deprivation therapies, or ADT. These therapies can significantly extend lifespans in men who have the disease, but they also have a range of challenging side effects.
In 2004, Dr. Marc Garnick, Gorman Brothers Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and editor in chief of HarvardProstateKnowledge.org, reported that in some men, an ADT drug called aberelix lengthens the time it tak...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 20, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlie Schmidt Tags: Health Living With Prostate Cancer Men's Health Prostate Health Prostate Knowledge Treatments HPK Source Type: blogs
Nanovolcanoes Record Electrical Activity Inside Heart Cells
The electrical activity of cardiomyocytes and other excitable cells such as neurons is studied using a number of techniques. To get details about the action potentials within the interior of the cell requires either forcefully pushing microelectrodes through the cellular barrier or using electroporation, a high voltage technique that makes temporary openings in the membranes. Sticking electrodes carefully through springy cell membranes is a hit and miss process and electroporation is only effective for very short periods of time in many cases.
Now, researchers from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne and the ...
Source: Medgadget - September 5, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Neurology Source Type: blogs
Withings Releases Two Fashionable Wireless Blood Pressure Monitors
Withings is releasing two new wireless blood pressure monitors, the BPM Core and BPM Connect, one of which is a bit more than just a BP cuff. As always, the French company has given a lot of attention to the design of these cuffs, giving them a user-friendly, comfortable look.
The BPM Connect is a fairly traditional BP cuff, though it does sync with a smartphone to allow users to see their readings and store them for the future. It measures systolic and diastolic blood pressure, as well as heart rate.
The BPM Core, though, is a pretty impressive new device, which can take electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings as par...
Source: Medgadget - July 18, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiology Medicine OTC Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
BIOMONITOR III Injectable Cardiac Monitor Wins FDA Clearance
Having unveiled their BIOMONITOR III a couple of weeks ago, BIOTRONIK just won FDA clearance for the device. The new version of the BIOMONITOR injectable cardiac monitor is less than half the size of the previous model, but it offers the ability to provide a substantially improved signal quality.
Designed to be injected under the skin, where it can reside for up to four years while continuously monitoring cardiac signals, it can help detect cardiac arrhythmias and unexplained syncopes, or loss of consciousness. Patients with atrial fibrillation will benefit thanks to their cardiologists having an easier time spotting si...
Source: Medgadget - July 8, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Source Type: blogs
BIOTRONIK Releases BIOMONITOR III Injectable Cardiac Monitor
BIOTRONIK is releasing a new version of its popular BIOMONITOR injectable cardiac monitor. The BIOMONITOR III is less than half the size of the BIOMONITOR 2, while offering much clearer signal quality.
It is designed to be injected under the skin, where it can reside for weeks while continuously monitoring and recording the patient’s electrical heart signals. This can help detect cardiac arrhythmias and unexplained syncopes (loss of consciousness). Atrial fibrillation, being one of the greatest culprits in the development of strokes, heart failure, and other conditions, will be the main diagnostic target of th...
Source: Medgadget - June 28, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Source Type: blogs
