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Bet Your Toilet Seat Can & #039;t Do This!
Every now and then we come across a technology that just begs the question: How on Earth did they think of that? Case in point, a toilet seat designed to detect heart failure by measuring a patient's biometrics during "natural" processes.  A team of researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) are responsible for the idea, which is intended to lower hospital readmission rates by alerting doctors of a patient's deteriorating cardiovascular condition before the patients even realize they have symptoms. The idea is for hospitals to buy the seats and issue them to heart failure patients after ...
Source: MDDI - March 20, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Amanda Pedersen Tags: Cardiovascular Source Type: news

COVID-19 Exposed the Faults in America ’s Elder Care System. This Is Our Best Shot to Fix Them
For the American public, one of the first signs of the COVID-19 pandemic to come was a tragedy at a nursing home near Seattle. On Feb. 29, 2020, officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Washington State announced the U.S. had its first outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Three people in the area had tested positive the day before; two of them were associated with Life Care Center of Kirkland, and officials expected more to follow soon. When asked what steps the nursing home could take to control the spread, Dr. Jeff Duchin, health officer for Seattle and King County, said he was working w...
Source: TIME: Health - June 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abigail Abrams Tags: Uncategorized Aging COVID-19 feature franchise Magazine TIME for Health Source Type: news

Po-641-05 safety and in-hospital outcomes of left atrial appendage closure device in patients with heart failure: an analysis from the national inpatient sample database 2015-2018
Left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) is a procedure that has been shown to be non-inferior to oral anticoagulation for stroke prevention for patients with atrial fibrillation. There is limited data about the safety of left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) in patients with heart failure (HF).
Source: Heart Rhythm - April 29, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Carlos Vergara Sanchez, Michael Dangl, Michael Albosta, Ian Ergui, Karla Inestroza, Jennifer Maning, Louis Thomas Vincent, Jelani K. Grant, Bertrand Ebner, Rosario Colombo Source Type: research