POSTS TAGGED AS Cardiology

Two New CPR Devices for Heart Failure

ResQPOD and ResQPump are two new devices now being tested that have shown much improved results for CPR on [MORE]

The Patient Channel

When does a behavioral intervention have the greatest effect?  The Patient Channel supposes that moment is when the patient [MORE]

Medical and Consumer Interface

At this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (Jan. 6-9), Dr. David Albert will be demonstrating [MORE]

Biodegradable Stents

Chemical & Engineering News recently reported that chemists at UNC-Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University have developed easy-to-make [MORE]

Mini-Sensor for Detecting Heartbeat

It’s hard to imagine that a human heartbeat can create a local disturbance in the Earth’s magnetic field, but, [MORE]

Stem Cells for Heart Repair, World’s First

In experimental animals, a team of nanotechnology engineers and heart surgeons in Taiwan have used hematopoietic stem cells and [MORE]

Cleveland Clinic’s “AtriClip”

Among the risks to atrial fibrillation patients is the possibility that blood will thicken and clot in the heart’s [MORE]

Interpreting Echocardiograms in Telemedicine

Digital stethoscopes already allow physicians to listen to a patient’s heartbeat alone, lung function alone, and then, heart and [MORE]

Grants for Home Monitoring CHF

The Center for Technology and Aging (Oakland, CA) awarded grants this summer to five organizations with projects for remote patient [MORE]

Convenient Biosensors for ECG and EEG Monitoring

With both electrocardiograms and electroencephalograms, patients have to have electrodes “stuck” on their skin to get good signals.  Bioengineers [MORE]

Growing Heart Tissue in China

Because drugs can only slow the pace of heart failure and also because transplantable hearts are in short supply, [MORE]

Shock Waves to Grow New Blood Vessels in the Heart

Cardiologists at the Mayo Clinic aren’t sure why acoustic waves initiate a wound-healing process, but nevertheless they are testing [MORE]

LifeWatch’s “Teleclinic”

Three to five percent of Americans over age 65 have atrial fibrillation (2.2 million people) and some of them [MORE]

Huge Market Growth in Detecting AAA and PAD

Driven by stents in treating abdominal aortic aneurysms and peripheral arterial disease, market watchers are predicting business for detecting and [MORE]

“Nanomembrane Transistors”

Prior to ablating tissue to stop arterial fibrillation, a heart surgeon has to locate the area of the heart that [MORE]

iPSC’s for Drug Testing

Cellular Dynamics International (Madison, WI) has begun shipping commercial induced-pluripotent stem cells called “iCell cadiomyocytes” which apparently are being [MORE]

A Quarter of Heart Failure Patients Readmitted to Hospitals

Telemedicine solutions that minimize hospital readmissions for heart failure have a pretty big target to hit.  One quarter of [MORE]

Magnesium-Based Mini Medical Devices

19th century English dentist Charles Stent, who invented a dental impression compound, could never have imagined he would be [MORE]

First Robot-Assisted Endoscopic Aortic Value Replacement

ATS Medical, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN) recently announced that its highly pliable aortic valve replacement had been used with the [MORE]

Dr. John Simpson-Angioplasty Pioneer

German physician Andreas Gruentzig invented balloon angioplasty in 1977, but University of Texas physician and bioengineer John Simpson developed the [MORE]