Biotricity ’s Bioflux Live Cardiac Monitoring System FDA Cleared
Biotricity, a Silicon Valley firm, won FDA clearance for its Bioflux ECG monitoring system. The 3-channel device is used to help spot and identify cardiac arrhythmias. The mobile cardiac telemetry system transmits any likely cardiac events via its built-in 3G/4G cellular connectivity. The triggers can be set and changed remotely by the patient’s cardiologist, allowing for notifications to be programmed for each patient’s unique needs (bradycardia, tachycardia, atrial fibrillation) and diagnostic requirements of the cardiologist. This allows patients to go just about anywhere while being monitored in real time....
Source: Medgadget - January 5, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Medicine Net News Source Type: blogs
Got real rights? Not when seeking health care.
Until genuine rights are extended to all patients, the ongoing health-care-reform saga perpetrated by Congress and executive leadership will continue to fail the American people. Many Americans have suffered and died because of a broken health-care-delivery system. One of us lost a 19-year old son due to lack of certain patient rights – specifically the right to evidence-based medicine and the right to a complete discharge plan from his hospital. His cardiologists failed to replace potassium as required by an evidence based guideline for patients with low serum potassium and concomitant cardiac arrhythmias. He had coll...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 18, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/john-t-james-and-michael-f-mascia" rel="tag" > John T. James, PhD and Michael F. Mascia, MD, MPH < /a > Tags: Patient Hospital-Based Medicine Medicare Patients Source Type: blogs
Supplemental oxygen in STEMI without hypoxia – AVOID
Very often, it is routine practice to give supplemental oxygen to those presenting to emergency department with ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Two recent trials – AVOID [1] and DETO2X-AMI [2] have critically appraised the value of supplemental oxygen in STEMI.
AVOID study showed that in STEMI patients without hypoxia, supplemental oxygen can increase early myocardial injury which was demonstrated by a higher value of creatine phosphokinase (CK). Larger myocardial infarct size as assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) was noted at six months. Higher rate of recurrent myocardial infarction an...
Source: Cardiophile MD - November 15, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Abbott ’s Confirm Rx Implantable Cardiac Monitor Connects to Smartphones, FDA Cleared
The folks at Abbott received FDA clearance for the Confirm Rx implantable cardiac monitoring device that wirelessly connects to the patient’s smartphone. Cardiac recordings pass from the device to the smartphone and then onto the company’s online portal where cardiologists can view the data at any time. By being able to immediately share events with the physician, patients can be diagnosed quicker whether and what kind of cardiac arrhythmias they may have.
The patient simply installs the myMerlin app on their phone and uses Bluetooth to sync to the implant. A schedule is set to move saved data from the device, ...
Source: Medgadget - October 31, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: News Source Type: blogs
Meet six MIT Brain Health Solvers at the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (December 5-7th)
Winners of 2017 Brain Health Challenge by MIT Solve, selected on September 17th, 2017
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We are proud to announce that, furthering our collaboration with MIT Solve Brain Health Challenge, six MIT Solve Winners will participate at the upcoming 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit.
Two of them will speak and share their insights and challenges will all Summit participants:
Nancy Briefs, President and CEO of Digital Cognition Technologies
Ms. Briefs’ is a serial entrepreneur, having helped successfully develop and commercialize innovative technologies with six med-tech startups. In July...
Source: SharpBrains - October 20, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology Brain Health Challenge Brain-health Digital Cognition Technologies MIT Solve Sapien Labs Source Type: blogs
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Source: Cardiophile MD - October 19, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
Medgadget Joins the Verily Baseline Project Study, Part 1: The First Visit
Over the past few years, just about all the major tech giants have shown significant interest in health. It’s basically now a necessity for smartphones and smartwatches to contain sensors, apps, and other features to monitor your health and fitness. And many of these companies are partnering with research institutions to analyze and mine user data for insights about our bodies, such as Apple’s and Stanford’s recently announced study to use Apple Watch data to identify cardiac arrhythmias.
One of the other notable studies uses technology from Verily (Alphabet’s life sciences division) and medical exp...
Source: Medgadget - October 18, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Scott Jung Tags: Exclusive Medicine Net News Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
HeartyPatch, an Open-Source ECG for Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability Tracking
Team Protocentral, an open source hardware firm from Bangalore, India, is raising crowdfunds to release its HeartyPatch device. The HeartyPatch is a single lead ECG patch that can track the heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV) when stuck to the chest. Similar devices have been developed and commercialized previously, but the HeartyPatch provides open source access to the software running it, allowing anyone to implement it for unique use cases.
The HeartyPatch features Bluetooth connectivity built into the small device, so data can be easily transferred onto tablets and computers for in-depth analysis. The entire de...
Source: Medgadget - October 12, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Medicine Net News Source Type: blogs
Naturopaths: Able to turn even Epsom salt potentially deadly
Naturopathy and naturopaths are a fairly frequent topic on this blog —and for very good reason. If there is an example of a pseudomedical " discipline " that has been gaining undeserved " respectability, " it ' s naturopathy. It ' s licensed in all too many states, and physicians who have fallen under the spell of so-called " integrative medicine, " a specialty that rebrands science-based lifestyle medical interventions as somehow " alternative " or " integrative " and uses them as a vessel to " integrate " quackery into medicine, seem to have a special affinity for naturopaths. Indeed, so common has the presence of natu...
Source: Respectful Insolence - October 6, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: oracknows Source Type: blogs
Another Study Showing Centenarians to Suffer a Lesser Burden of Disease
In this research, it is shown that centenarians have a lower burden of disease than people who die at earlier ages. You might compare it with very similar results noted last month. Aging is the accumulation of molecular damage and its consequences; the only way to reach later ages is to be less damaged or more resilient to the consequences of damage. It would be very surprising to find that the longest-lived people are more damaged, rather than less, so the results here are the expected outcome for such a study. Nonetheless, centenarians are still frail and greatly impacted by aging - their state of being is not a goal to ...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 21, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Cardiologs Cloud-Based Software FDA Cleared to Spot Arrhythmias in ECGs
Cardiologs, a company based in Paris, France, won FDA clearance for its software that analyzes electrocardiograms (ECG) for signs of cardiac arrhythmias. The system is based on a neural network, an artificial intelligence technique, that was trained by feeding it more than half a million previously gathered ECG recordings.
The Cardiologs system lives in the cloud and doesn’t require any equipment to invest in. It takes as input, via an online upload, long-term ECG recordings obtained from Holter monitors, ECG patches, and even smartwatches. It then carefully analyzes the data to identify suspect events that look lik...
Source: Medgadget - July 13, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Informatics Source Type: blogs
New Software Diagnoses Cardiac Arrhytmias from ECGs Better Than Cardiologists
Stanford researchers claim to have developed an algorithm that “exceeds the performance of board certified cardiologists in detecting a wide range of heart arrhythmias from electrocardiograms [ECG] recorded with a single-lead wearable monitor,” according to a study published in arXiv.
The team used the Zio patch from iRhythm Technologies, a San Francisco, CA startup, which allowed them to gather ECG recordings over a period of up to two weeks. These recordings were run against a computer running a deep learning algorithm that was trained by analyzing almost 30,000 previously gathered and diagnostically assess...
Source: Medgadget - July 10, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs
CathVision: A Smoother Look at Cardiac Electrograms
CathVision is a Danish company that aims to reduce noisy electrogram signals during cardiac arrhythmia ablation procedures. With cleaner signals, cardiologists can better locate the areas that generate arrhythmias and ablate them. For example, with a higher signal-to-noise ratio, cardiologists can have higher confidence when probing the low-voltage areas of the heart. This is important because cardiac arrhythmias, which affect 2% of the world, remain an untreatable challenge in about 50% of ablation procedures.
Patients with cardiac arrhythmias have issues with conductance of the heart. In some cases, the wiring of the ...
Source: Medgadget - July 7, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Ben Ouyang Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs
BioSig ’s Pure EP System Detects Deadly Cardiac Arrhythmia Cells (Interview)
BioSig Technologies, a company out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, touts its PURE EP technology as superior electrophysiology (EP) signal recording and processing system compared to conventional devices, and is positioned to shake-up the EP market when it is launched in 2018. An animal laboratory study utilizing the PURE EP system was recently published in the Journal of Innovations in Cardiac Rhythm Management, showcasing its ability to detect cells that cause deadly arrhythmias. Trials were conducted by a team of cardiologists and electrophysiologists from Mayo Clinic, Harvard’s Brigham & Women’s, and BioSig.
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Source: Medgadget - June 8, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: News Source Type: blogs
Scientists Keep Bits of Hearts Alive Under High Speed Cameras to Study Arrhythmias
Detecting the source of errant electric signals in the heart that cause cardiac arrhythmias, as well as understanding what causes them, has been a notoriously difficult challenge for both physicians and researchers. This is because the heart is difficult to study, but researchers at Ohio State University have come up with a new technique that keeps myocardial tissue beating and alive in vitro long enough to study using video cameras.
The cardiac tissue comes from patients who undergo heart transplants. The atria are removed and placed within a special laboratory setup that keeps them alive for up to twelve hours. A dye is ...
Source: Medgadget - June 8, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Genetics Source Type: blogs
