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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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Johnson and Johnson to Acquire Shockwave Medical

DAIC

The transaction follows Johnson & Johnson MedTech’s successful acquisitions of Abiomed , a leader in heart recovery, and more recently Laminar, an innovator in left atrial appendage elimination for patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AFib).

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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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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. Clinical and electrophysiologic findings in patients with paroxysmal slowing of the sinus rate and apparent Mobitz type II atrioventricular block. Reference 1.

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

American College of Cardiology

These have ranged from heart attacks, cardio-obstetrics, breast cancer, prevention and arrhythmias.8-13 Education forms a key pillar of the program, such as educating emergency room physicians about how women present with heart attacks compared with men. It's really empowering to the patient."