POSTS TAGGED AS heart attack

Drone Delivery of a Defibrillator

This drone responds to heart attack patients
“In January, while he was out shoveling snow in Trollhättan, Sweden, a man was [MORE]

Large Smartwatch Trial in China Supports Afib Monitoring

Smartwatch app detects Afib in large Chinese study
“A truly massive screening study in China spanning more than 2.8 million participants [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]

Injectable Hydrogel to Repair Heart Damage

Cardiac tissue repair with injected gel
“Ventrix, a spin-off company of the University of California San Diego, has developed a special [MORE]

Spit Analysis for Heart Attack Risk

Device to analyze spit to diagnose risk of heart disease
Australian scientists have developed a device that assesses biomarkers in spit [MORE]

A Patch that Keeps a Broken Heart Beating

Heart nanoscaffold
“[Brown University] investigators developed computational models of hearts beating and evaluated what kind of biomaterial patch would provide sufficient [MORE]

Metabolite Test for Blocked Arteries

Treadmill exercise
Cardiologists at Duke University carried out studies of peoples’ blood one hour before a treadmill stress test and two [MORE]

A “Smart Stent” that Monitors Arterial Conditions

UBC smart stent
Electrical and computer engineers at the University of British Columbia have created “the first angioplasty-ready smart stent.”  “[They] modified [MORE]

Patch Delivers Drugs Directly to Heart

Heart patch drug delivery
In order to get drugs, proteins or stem cells to the heart after an infarction, a collaboration [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]

Clot-Busting with Magnetic Nanoparticles

Iron Oxide Core for tPA
When the USFDA first approved recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (aka, “clot buster”) in 1996, it came [MORE]

Largest Stem Trial for Heart Attack Repair Begins

Delivering Stem Cells to Heart Attack Victims
The largest stem cell project to date has begun with 19 collaborating institutions in [MORE]

Microparticles to Repair Heart Damage

TECH-DIAGRAM-COUR
Using microparticles made of biodegradable polyglycolic acid, which has an electrical affinity for inflammatory monocytes, c (Elmhurst, IL) Cour Pharmacetical [MORE]

Personalized Diagnostic for Salt Sensitivity

Salt sensitivity is implicated in the deadliest human diseases: stroke, kidney failure, heart attack. About a third of all people [MORE]