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FDA Clears First AI to Aid Heart Failure Detection During Routine Check-ups

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The Low EF AI will be added to Eko’s SENSORA Cardiac Early Detection Platform , the latest advancement to the platform which already features FDA-cleared algorithms to identify AFib and structural heart murmurs, often an indicator of valvular heart disease. doi: 10.1136/bmjhci-2022-100718 FDA 510(k) Summary, K233409 Bachtiger, P.,

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A teenager involved in a motor vehicle collision with abnormal ECG

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Hopefully a repeat echocardiogram will be performed outpatient. Retrieved July 2, 2022, from [link] Moyé, D. Retrieved July 2, 2022, from [link] Sybrandy, K. I've copied KEY points from My Comment in the August 6, 2022 post in Dr. Smith's ECG Blog — regarding the answer to this question. No cardiac MRI was done.

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90 year old with acute chest and epigastric pain, and diffuse ST depression with reciprocal STE in aVR: activate the cath lab?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

See this case: what do you think the echocardiogram shows in this case? With the history of Afib, CTA abdomen was ordered to r/o mesenteric ischemia vs ischemic colitis vs small bowel obstruction. Smith : It should be noted that, in subendocardial ischemia, in contrast to OMI, absence of wall motion abnormality is common.

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Noisy, low amplitude ECG in a patient with chest pain

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

While awaiting transfer to the cath lab, STAT echocardiogram was performed and showed LVEF 30-35%, as well as anterior, inferior, and apical hypokinesis, and apical thrombus. The April 6, 2023 post — excessive baseline artifact misdiagnosed as AFib ( instead of sinus rhythm with AV Wenckebach — as in Figure-4 in this post ).

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Patient in Single Vehicle Crash: What is this ST Elevation, with Peak Troponin of 6500 ng/L?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

An echocardiogram was done. Blunt Trauma in a Child 40-something male in a head-on Motor Vehicle Collision and Splenic Injury == MY Comment, by K EN G RAUER, MD ( 10/10 /2022 ): == Highly interesting post by Dr. Smith regarding a 30-something male with multiple injuries from a motor vehicle accident. Is there also Brugada?