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Wearable heart monitor increases diagnosis of irregular heart rhythm

Science Daily - Stroke

Wearable, long-term continuous heart monitors helped identify 52% more cases of atrial fibrillation compared to usual care, but that did not lead to a reduction in hospitalizations due to stroke, according to a new study.

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New AI tool simplifies heart monitoring: Fewer leads, same accuracy

Science Daily - Heart Disease

To diagnose heart conditions including heart attacks and heart rhythm disturbances, clinicians typically rely on 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs) -- complex arrangements of electrodes and wires placed around the chest and limbs to detect the heart's electrical activity.

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New AI tool simplifies heart monitoring: Fewer leads, same accuracy

Medical Xpress - ECG

To diagnose heart conditions including heart attacks and heart rhythm disturbances, clinicians typically rely on 12-lead electrocardiograms (ECGs)—complex arrangements of electrodes and wires placed around the chest and limbs to detect the heart's electrical activity.

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Continuous heart monitoring to evaluate treatment effects in pulmonary hypertension

Open Heart

Objectives To assess treatment effects before and after the escalation of specific PH treatments using continuous heart monitoring with a Reveal LINQ loop recorder. There is increasing evidence to support the role of early intervention and treatment in affecting clinical outcomes in PH.

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A bioelectronic mesh capable of growing with cardiac tissues for comprehensive heart monitoring

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

A team of engineers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and including colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently announced in Nature Communications that they had successfully built a tissue-like bioelectronic mesh system integrated with an array of atom-thin graphene sensors that can simultaneously measure both (..)

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Bioelectronic mesh capable of growing with cardiac tissues for comprehensive heart monitoring

Science Daily - Heart Disease

This tissue-like mesh can grow along with the cardiac cells, allowing researchers to observe how the heart's mechanical and electrical functions change during the developmental process.

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Wearing your heart (monitor) on your sleeve

Science Daily - Heart Disease

By detecting cardiovascular ailments and helping assess overall cardiac health, wearable electrocardiograms save lives, not to mention exorbitant hospital care costs. Researchers now present a novel wearable electrocardiogram patch for enhanced point-of-care diagnostics.