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How Wearable Tech Can Help Monitor Your Heart Health

MIBHS

The Role of Wearable Technology in Heart Health Wearable tech is designed to monitor physiological data and provide actionable insights to users. For heart health, these devices use advanced sensors to track metrics like heart rate, blood oxygen levels, and even irregular heart rhythms.

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Integration of implantable device therapy in patients with heart failure. A clinical consensus statement from the Heart Failure Association (HFA) and European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

European Journal of Heart Failure

Unfortunately, implementation of devices, including those with the greatest evidence, in clinical care pathways is still suboptimal.

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Physiology Friday #228: Identifying Sleep Patterns that Influence Chronic Disease Risk

Physiologically Speaking

Welcome to the Physiology Friday newsletter. Physiologically Speaking is a reader-supported publication. This irregular sleep pattern misaligns circadian rhythms and disrupts physiology. ICYMI: On Wednesday, I published my video interview with Dr. Andrew Koutnik. “The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life.”

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Shorten the Blanking Period After Atrial Fibrillation Ablation, Experts Say

DAIC

Two articles and an accompanying editorial in Heart Rhythm , the official journal of the Heart Rhythm Society, the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society , and the Pediatric & Congenital Electrophysiology Society , published by Elsevier , address the controversy and recommend shortening the blanking period.

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What is an Electro Physiological ( EP) Study ?

Know Your Heart

An electrophysiologic study (EPS) is used to find the source of abnormal heart rhythms. Some of these rhythms are caused by abnormalities in the heart’s conduction system. Electrophysiologic Study (EPS) What is an electrophysiologic study (EPS)?

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What Do We Really Know About the Effect of Prolonged Heart Rhythm Monitoring After Stroke?

Stroke Journal

Recent studies of SCAF have provided new insights: (1) SCAF is extremely common and may sometimes indicate physiological findings, (2) the stroke risk associated with SCAF is lower than that of clinically detected AF, and (3) any benefit on stroke risk may be countered by increased bleeding risk (no net benefit).

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Cardiomatics guide: Analyzing arrhythmias made easy

Cardiomatics

Then, the current flows to an area known as the bundle of His, which divides into two branches (LBB and RBB) and is the only physiological pathway connecting the atria with the ventricles. Sinus tachycardia – sinus rhythm above 100 bpm is a sinus tachycardia. The left bundle and right bundle terminate in the Purkinje fibers.