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Smidt Heart Institute Sudden Cardiac Arrest Expert Receives 2024 Distinguished Scientist Award

DAIC

“I am grateful to my ACC colleagues for recognizing our work with this prestigious award,” said Chugh, associate director of the Smidt Heart Institute and the Pauline and Harold Price Chair in Cardiac Electrophysiology Research at Cedars-Sinai. The credit goes to my mentees and colleagues over the years.

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An anxious approach to a benign arrhythmia in Holter recording

Dr. S. Venkatesan MD

“Doctor, I forgot to tell, my father died suddenly at the age of 48 apparently by a heart attack” I must admit, I was taken aback the moment he told this. Massie Block -Ref 1) But, if there is something unusual in the clinical history, be ready to investigate until the arrhythmia, or at least the anxiety disappears.

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Supercharging the ECG: AI set to Revolutionize the Diagnostic Cardiology Market

DAIC

An Overnight Sensation (a century in the making) Efforts to measure the electrical activity of the heart had been well underway since the late 19th Century, though it was the Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven, improving on these prior developments, who created what we recognize as the ECG.

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Feature | Bridging the Gender Gap in Heart Health: Women’s Specialized Clinics

American College of Cardiology

The simple test revealed Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, an easily diagnosable and treatable arrhythmia. "I That experience in the late 1990s spurred Volgman to create the Rush Heart Center for Women in Chicago in 2003, one of the first dedicated women's heart programs in the country. "In It's really empowering to the patient."