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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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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.

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HRS 2024: Innovation Meets Reality

DAIC

In electrophysiology, innovation is king, but it is often incremental, and it almost always lacks rationale, comprehensive clinical documentation and relevance for hospitals that try to balance the increasing costs of new technology with increasing demand and reimbursement that just can’t keep pace.

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Leveraging 'explainable AI' to resolve Japan's growing stroke threat

Mobi Health News - ECG

Founded in 2019, Cardio Intelligence develops a range of AI-powered solutions for continuous heart monitoring called SmartRobin AI. Recently, we have been conducting clinical studies in collaboration with several leading hospitals in Japan. A local startup is introducing an innovative AI targeting this growing danger.

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The three things that can go wrong with the heart

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

However if we know that the heart as a pump is strong and the blood supply to it is unaffected then the heart will generally cope well with a heart rhythm disturbance and usually the patient will remain well enough to get to hospital and get it checked out. Just before I leave you, I would like to say one more thing.

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Cryptogenic Stroke

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Previously it was thought that this was only beneficial in 1 6 hour window, some studies are suggesting that it could be beneficial even if performed beyond 6 hours (up to 16 hours) The next step is to study the heart in detail. All patients should have a 12 lead ECG and be put on a 24 hour heart monitor whilst in hospital.

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