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How Wearable Tech Can Help Monitor Your Heart Health

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The Role of Wearable Technology in Heart Health Wearable tech is designed to monitor physiological data and provide actionable insights to users. For heart health, these devices use advanced sensors to track metrics like heart rate, blood oxygen levels, and even irregular heart rhythms.

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How Mental Health Can Affect Your Heart Health

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However, prolonged exposure to stress can lead to persistently high levels of these hormones, contributing to increased heart rate, elevated blood pressure, and inflammation, all of which raise the risk of heart disease. People with anxiety often experience elevated heart rates and increased blood pressure.

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What is athlete’s heart?

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It is a physiological adaptation helping athletes perform physical tasks better than non-athletes. Systemic vascular resistance falls, but slight to moderate increase in blood pressure can occur due to the increased cardiac output. The upper limit of physiologic cardiac hypertrophy in highly trained elite athletes.

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Three normal high sensitivity troponins over 4 hours with a "normal ECG"

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

And, the drug does provide physiologic benefits for a patient with an acute cardiac event ( ie, it helps to relieve anxiety as well as pain — which may decrease activation of autonomic nervous system activity — often resulting in reduced heart rate, blood pressure, venous return and myocardial oxygen demand — Murphy et al: StatPearls, 2023 ).

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A fascinating electrophysiology case. What is this wide complex tachycardia, and how best to manage it?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

AV synchrony and physiologic ventricular depolarization the hemodynamics improved. Lowering the back up rate (LRL) of the ICD/pacer allowed for an intrinsic rhythm with physiologic AV conduction and normal AV synchrony with resultant increase in stroke volume and cardiac outpt. Why was it Wrong to Think the Rhythm was AFlutter?

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Diffuse Subendocardial Ischemia on the ECG. Left main? 3-vessel disease? No!

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

The initial blood pressure was 80/palp with a heart rate of 104, respirations 20, oxygen saturations of 94% and a finger stick blood glucose of 268. In addition, the patient received 750 mL of fluid resuscitation with transient improvement of blood pressure.

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Massive Transfusion for Motorcycle Collision with Hemorrhage, Troponin Elevated.

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mEq/L A subsequent ECG was recorded several hours later, after the hemorrhage was controlled and the blood pressure stabilized: Sinus rhythm with normal intervals, no RBBB, no LAFB, no long ST segment. Ken Grauer below thought that there was evidence of Hyperkalemia, perhaps transient. There were 2 K values measured in the ED: 3.7