RhythmAnalytics Detects Cardiac Arrhythmias Using AI, Now FDA Cleared
Biofourmis, a company with offices in Singapore and Boston, won FDA clearance for its RhythmAnalytics cloud-based software that uses artificial intelligence techniques to automate the interpretation of cardiac arrhythmias from ECG tracings. The system can detect more than fifteen different types of arrhytmias including using beat-by-beat morphology analysis to spot ventricular arrhythmias, ventricular ectopic beats, and all non-paced arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation (AFib).
The system was trained by feeding it over a million single-lead ECG recordings, harvested from a variety of wearable monitoring devices. Deep...
Source: Medgadget - May 20, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Critical Care Emergency Medicine Informatics Source Type: blogs
Stereotaxis Unveils New Magnetic Robotic Cardiac Navigation System
Stereotaxis, a company that has developed robotic magnetic navigation technology to deliver catheters to the heart during ablation procedures, is introducing its latest generation system. The new Stereotaxis Genesis RMN platform features smaller magnets that can rotate around their center of mass, and which are positioned inside robotic arms that can move in a very controlled fashion, guiding a tip of a catheter precisely to the source of a cardiac arrhythmia.
The system is really designed to be used with the new Stereotaxis Imaging Model S, a package consisting of a single-plane high-energy X-ray C-arm, accompanying moto...
Source: Medgadget - May 14, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Radiology Source Type: blogs
AliveCor Introduces World ’s First 6-Lead Consumer ECG, the KardiaMobile 6L
AliveCor, founded by Dr. David Albert, is the company that introduced reliable and useful ECG monitoring to consumers. Their products, which operate as basic single-lead ECG devices, have been cleared by the FDA to be able to detect cardiac arrhythmias, including atrial fibrillation, tachycardia, and bradycardia. They have been quite limited still, as the power of ECG really lies when more leads are used and an array of simultaneous tracings can be reviewed to help identify a pathology.
Single leads ECG is intuitively simple, as the user only needs to hold onto a device with both hands, creating a one lead circuit. Having ...
Source: Medgadget - May 13, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Critical Care Medicine Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
BioSig Technologies Announces First Clinical Cases with PURE EP System: Interview with Ken Londoner, CEO
BioSig Technologies has developed the PURE EP electrophysiology information system, a product that aims to provide better tools for doctors who are treating potentially deadly arrhythmias. The computerized system is used to process electrophysiological signals and provides capabilities to acquire, store, amplify, measure, and display such signals. By aiming to improve data quality and handling for clinicians treating patients with abnormal heart rates and rhythms, BioSig hopes to improve patient outcomes.
The system can minimize noise and artifacts, which could enhance the value of such cardiac signals in making an accurat...
Source: Medgadget - May 9, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiology Critical Care Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Abbott Releases New Generation Confirm Rx Insertable Heart Monitor
Abbott is launching its latest generation of the Confirm Rx insertable cardiac monitor, a device that received FDA clearance and European regulatory approval back in 2017. The new device offers more accurate detection of cardiac arrhythmias.
The implant is inserted via a small incision during an outpatient procedure, not even requiring a suture to stitch it up. Following, it is able to communicate with a paired-up smartphone via Bluetooth while continuously monitoring the beating heart.
Patients can record events they feel into the app that comes with the Confirm Rx and cardiologists can receive live information about the...
Source: Medgadget - May 8, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: blogs
Abbott Releases Confirm Rx Insertable Heart Monitor
Abbott is finally launching its Confirm Rx insertable cardiac monitor, a device that received FDA clearance and European regulatory approval back in 2017. The implant is inserted via a small incision during an outpatient procedure, not even requiring a suture to stitch it up. Following, it is able to communicate with a paired-up smartphone via Bluetooth while continuously monitoring the beating heart.
Patients can record events they feel into the app that comes with the Confirm Rx and cardiologists can receive live information about the patient’s heart and be able to make specific therapeutic decisions.
There’...
Source: Medgadget - May 8, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: blogs
Wearables for detection of AF – Apple Heart Study
Wearables for detection of AF – Apple Heart Study
The Apple Heart Study was an app based study using smartwatch to detect cardiac arrhythmias [1]. The preliminary findings of Apple Heart Study has been presented at the American College of Cardiology meeting 2019 at New Orleans. The study enrolled enrolled 419,297 participants over a period of just 8 months, indicating the power of social media in enrolling participants. The number comes to about 1 in 600 adults in the United States of America. Of these, 24, 626 were aged 65 years or more.
Primary objective of the study was to measure the number of participants with ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - March 17, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Bluetooth-Enabled Subcutaneous Heart Monitors: Interview with Dr. Avi Fischer, Abbott
Abbott has developed an implantable device that continuously monitors the heart rhythm and allows for communication with a clinician via a smartphone. The paperclip-sized device, called the Confirm Rx insertable cardiac monitor (ICM), requires no re-charging and is inserted during an outpatient procedure that is often suture-free.
Monitoring a patient’s heart rhythm can tell clinicians a lot about why an individual might be experiencing symptoms, and the diagnoses made can be important in defining the best strategy for treatment. For instance, for patients with a documented rhythm abnormality, being able to calculate the...
Source: Medgadget - February 19, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Cardiology Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation
Invasive catheter ablation is now an established modality of treatment for a wide variety of cardiac arrhythmias ranging from paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardias to life-threatening ventricular tachycardias. Now a new modality of stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation – a non invasive ablation using stereotactic body radiotherapy is being evaluated for drug refractory ventricular tachycardia which has failed catheter ablation [1].
ENCORE-VT trial (Electrophysiology-Guided Noninvasive Cardiac Radioablation for Ventricular Tachycardia) was a prospective single center study involving 19 patients. Seventeen of them ...
Source: Cardiophile MD - January 16, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 31st 2018
In conclusion, there are many anti-aging strategies in development, some of which have shown considerable promise for slowing down aging or delaying the onset of age-related diseases. From multiple pre-clinical studies, it appears that upregulation of autophagy through autophagy enhancers, elimination of senescent cells using senolytics, transfusion of plasma from young blood, neurogenesis and BDNF enhancement through specific drugs are promising approaches to sustain normal health during aging and also to postpone age-related diseases. However, these approaches will require critical assessment in clinical trials to determ...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 30, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Medgadget ’s Best Medical Technologies of 2018
The year 2018 is nearly over, and it is time for us to reveal what we believe were the most notable developments in medical technology. We considered a technology’s clinical importance, the greatness of the leap that it’s making over existing solutions, as well as how we expect it to be adopted by doctors and nurses. Additionally, we place great value on the novelty, the engineering brilliance embedded within, and how a new technology makes possible what recently seemed nearly inconceivable. As such, a technology that may not be the most useful, but if it strikes our imagination and opens up new possibilities i...
Source: Medgadget - December 28, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Medicine Society Surgery Source Type: blogs
Does coffee lead to cardiac arrhythmias?
Coffee —”because of the caffeine which it holds,” described Dr. Henry Elsner in a 1911 review article in the journal of Hypertension and Arteriosclerosis — causes“increased rapidity of the heart’s action. It makes the heart irritable, it increases the power of the heart’s contractions, it places an extra load upon the kidneys, increasing the […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 26, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/larry-istrail" rel="tag" > Larry Istrail, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Cardiology Source Type: blogs
A Mechanism by which Gut Bacteria Mediate the Effects of Dietary Fiber on Inflammation
Dietary fiber is known to reduce chronic inflammation; the modest but reliable degree to which it does so is well studied. In recent years researchers have been turning their attention to the diverse microbes of the gut in order to understand how this and other dietary effects on the immune system and tissues are mediated. Some attention has been given to the production of butyrate by gut bacteria involved in digesting fiber, for example. Researchers here find an analogous mechanism in the bacterial production of propionate from fiber, and make some inroads into understanding how exactly it functions to reduce inflammation...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 25, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Bringing Emergency Medicine to Eswatini
BY ADERONKE SUSAN AKAPO, DO; KATHLEEN ANNE ROCCO, MD; EDWARD KAKISH, DO; & KRIS BRICKMAN, MDEswatini, known as Swaziland until April 2018, is a small South African country approximately the size of New Jersey. It has 1.3 million people, and is bordered by South Africa and Mozambique.The country primarily comprises rural tribal areas with two major cities, Manzini and Mbabane, in the central portion of the country. Eswatini holds the unfortunate distinction of having the highest HIV rate in the world—approximately 26 percent of its population. Emergency medicine within this small country is clearly in its developme...
Source: Going Global - December 21, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
VASCADE MVP Venous Vascular Closure System for EP Procedures Approved in U.S.
Cardiva Medical won FDA approval for its VASCADE MVP Venous Vascular Closure System, a device used for multi-site venous closure post cardiac ablation, left atrial appendage closure, and other electrophysiology procedures. It’s available in sheaths from 6 to 12 French inner diameter
The device is used to deliver a collagen patch onto the exterior of each vessel puncture site following the main procedure. Nothing remains within the vessel and the patch eventually breaks up and is resorbed into the body. The same site can be used for repeat access if future procedures are necessary.
“With the VASCADE MVP device, we h...
Source: Medgadget - December 18, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Radiology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
