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Roundup: VUNO's at-home ECG device cleared in South Korea and more briefs

Mobi Health News - ECG

Also, Max Life in India has developed an analytics solution that detects inaccurate medical reports in real time.

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Chest pain and anterior ST depression. What’s the cause(s)?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Written by Jesse McLaren, with edits from Smith and Grauer A 60 year old with no past medical history presented with two hours of chest pain radiating to the left arm, with normal vitals. What do you think? I sent this to Dr. Meyers without any other information, and he responded, “do you have a prior to make sure that it is all just because of the delta wave?

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Remote Patient Cardiac Monitoring Cost – from Expense to Investment

Vector Remote

Remote cardiac monitoring collects information from patients’ implantable rhythm management devices and directly transmits data to a physician’s office, saving both the patient and clinic time and cost. This allows the medical team to review the results promptly and eliminates the need for a patient to be physically present. The benefits of remote patient monitoring are vital to the success of a cardiac clinic, The post Remote Patient Cardiac Monitoring Cost – from Expense to Investment appeared

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Incidence, predictors and clinical implications of new renal impairment following percutaneous coronary intervention

Open Heart

Background Renal impairment post-percutaneous coronary intervention (post-PCI) is a well-described adverse effect following the administration of contrast media. Within a large cohort of registry patients, we aimed to explore the incidence, predictors and clinical outcomes of renal impairment post-PCI. Methods The Victorian Cardiac Outcomes Registry is an Australian state-based clinical quality registry focusing on collecting data from all PCI capable centres.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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ECG Cases 36 – PACER Mnemonic for Approach to Pacemaker Patients

ECG Cases

In this month's ECG Cases blog Dr. McLaren explains the PACER mnemonic approach to patients with pacemakers: Pacemaker spike: is it appropriately presence/absent, is there pacemaker-mediated tachycardia (apply magnet) or is there failure to pace (apply magnet to stop sensing, cardio consult)? Aware (sensing): is it normal, is there oversensing (underpacing: apply magnet) or undersensing (treat reversible causes, cardio consult).

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The backlog of heart care in the UK – how AI algorithms can reduce queues for cardiologists?

Cardiomatics

Modern cardiology is currently facing many challenges. According to WHO , cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. Therefore, it is crucial to provide better diagnostics and treatment to cardiac patients. One country that is currently struggling to reduce the number of patients with heart diseases is the United Kingdom. What are the obstacles causing this, and how can they be overcome?

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Novel scoring system based on clinical examination for prediction of in-hospital mortality in acute coronary syndrome patients: a retrospective cohort study

Open Heart

Background This study aims to develop PADjadjaran Mortality in Acute coronary syndrome (PADMA) Score to predict in-hospital mortality in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients based on clinical examination only. Additionally, we also compared the predictive value of the PADMA Score with the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE), Canada Acute Coronary Syndrome (C-ACS), and The Portuguese Registry of Acute Coronary Syndromes (ProACS) risk scores.

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EM Quick Hits 43 Pediatric Cannabis Poisoning, Esophageal Perforation, Brugada, Career Transitions in EM

ECG Cases

On this month's EM Quick Hits podcast: Best of University of Toronto EM with Yaron Finkelstein on pediatric cannabis poisoning pitfalls, Brit Long on recognition and management of esophageal perforation, Jesse McLaren on 3 questions to diagnose Brugada Syndrome, Tahara Bhate on QI Corner, Constance Leblanc on maintaining wellness in career transitions from CAEP 2022.