POSTS TAGGED AS Cardiology

Predicted Rise in Heart Disease by 2060

Cardiovascular Disease Projections in the United States Based on the 2020 Census Estimates
“By the year 2060, compared with the year [MORE]

Wearables after COVID-19 Has Passed

Covid 19 – still a concern for the heart
While the death toll from COVID-19 keeps rising, this piece from last [MORE]

Printing Biosensors Directly on Skin

Biosensors printed on the skin
Several wearables for sensing blood oxygen, heart rate and temperature exist, but engineers at Penn State [MORE]

Vagus Nerve Stimulator for Severe Respiratory Distress

gammaCore non-invasive vagus nerve stimulator
Implanted vagus nerve stimulators have been in use for nearly a quarter of a century for [MORE]

An Algorithm for Death

Time of Death AI Technology
Lots of companies make vital signs monitors for hospitals—Welch Allen, GE, Philips, Cardiotech, et al. Most [MORE]

Device for Minimally Invasive Mitral Regurgitation Repair

Harpoon Heart Device
Through a small hole in the chest, a new tool allows cardiac surgeons to replace the cords that [MORE]

Wireless Heart Pump Has No Contact with Blood

EPFL-Wireless Heart Pump
Undesirable effects of both artificial hearts and left ventricular assist devices are damage done to red blood cells [MORE]

Measuring Cardiac Troponin in 10 minutes

Philips Minicare I-20
Immediately after a heart attack, the heart muscle floods a protein, cardiac troponin I, into the blood stream [MORE]

Blood Glucose-Powered Pacemakers

Biobattery for Pacemakers
You may remember from childhood being fascinated by sticking a copper penny into a potato, and then inserting [MORE]

Microbots “Swim” to Bust Blood Clots

Electromagnet and Microswimmers
Roto Rooter had this idea first, but then it was clearing sewer drains and this is about cutting [MORE]

Implantable Heart Sensor to Monitor Cardiac Patients

CardioMEMS System
Last year, St. Jude Medical (Minneapolis, MN) acquired Atlanta-based CardioMEMS and subsequently won FDA approval for an implantable heart [MORE]

The “Cyber Heart” Project

Cyber Heart
With funding from the National Science Foundation, seven universities are collaborating in a computational modeling project “the Cyber Heart.” [MORE]

A ”Beating Heart” Chip

Heart Cells
It’s no small feat to test drugs on living human heart tissue ex vivo. But that’s what bioengineers at [MORE]

Seeing Arrhythmias in a Dish

SFU Graduate Students and Professor Tibbits Create Heart Cells
In research near the heart of personalized medicine, bioengineers at Simon Frazer [MORE]