Middlemore Hospital Trialling A New Heart Monitor Device
... health board has a limited number of Holter monitors for testing, which results in a waiting list of more than 200 patients. It partnered with Samsung in 2016 and is trialling the new S-Patches on those patients on the waiting list, giving them an S-Patch and Holter monitor for 24 hours. "This is exciting and brand new and it shows how health technology is moving ahead," Middlemore Clinical Trials director of client services Nicole Signal says. The S-Patch has a built in bio-processor capable of measuring ECG skin temperature, GSR, and body fat. It attaches to the chest through two electrode stickers, compared to the five electrode stickers attached through the Holter monitor. Data is then collected through the Bio Processor chip which is transmitted to a mobile phone and accessible through desktops, tablets, and mobile phones. Ad Feedback. For Glenda Marshall, a patient on the trial, the new device is a lighter alternative to the bulky Holter monitor. It only has two stickers and remains invisible under clothing, while the Holter monitor has five wires and hangs around her neck. The Weymouth resident has had heart palpitations for the past seven years, describing it as ...
Why The Warriors Vs. Spurs Game May Matter Even More Without Any All-stars
... (rest), Iguodala (rest) & Thompson (rest) will not play tomorrow night in San Antonio. — Warriors PR (@Warriors PR) March 11, 2017. OK, so seemingly everyone’s out for the biggest game of the NBA season. Great. But this game still matters, given that the Spurs are now only 1½ games out of first place in the Western Conference, which would guarantee them home-court advantage through the entire playoffs. Even the most Gregg Popovich’d game ever can’t lose those stakes. In three ways, this scenario may actually be more interesting without those stars. 1. The Warriors probably would have run away with it. We get two teams on somewhat even footing (see No. 2) now. Leonard is still dealing with the NBA’s concussion protocol, and Aldridge has a scary “minor heart arrhythmia” — if there’s such thing as a minor heart arrhythmia. La Marcus Aldridge will be out for an ...
How Heart Disease Changed The Life Of A Fall River Woman
... her disorder was more benign than threatening. Hetzler was diagnosed when she was 17 with Long QT Syndrome, a heart arrhythmia that is activated by physical activity and can cause fainting and even sudden death. She recently learned that her particular mutation of Long QT did not have any deadly symptoms. Some patients with different mutations of the disorder are not quite so lucky. “This is why it’s so important to fund research,” Hetzler said. When Hetzler, a school adjustment counselor at Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School, and an American Heart Association spokeswoman, first learned she had Long QT in 2000, there wasn’t as much known about the genetic disorder. Doctors knew that some families had more deaths due to the disease, and others had none, but they didn’t yet understand why. Hetzler said learning she had this type of disease was difficult, especially for someone so young and athletic. Doctors implanted a defibrillator in the high school senior’s chest to ...
New Cardiac Monitor Is Allowing Doctors To Accurately Diagnose Heart Conditions
... percent of strokes with no known cause. It’s important to understand the causes and potential warning signs of a stroke. To diagnose an arrhythmia, a physician will typically conduct a physical examination, including heart-monitoring tests. Traditional methods include an electrocardiogram (ECG) to measure the timing and duration of each electrical signal of the heart. Holter monitors are portable ECG devices that can be worn for a day or more to record heart activity. However, Holter monitors are restricted in their ability to identify arrhythmias because they capture only limited heartbeat information. More advanced technologies, such as continuous cardiac monitors, provide long-term recording and storage of the heart’s electrical activity. This is essential to detecting and documenting potential arrhythmias, which can sometimes occur infrequently and without symptoms. These devices, such as Zio by i Rhythm, stores beat-to-beat heart rhythm data in its entirety, which can provide a more complete picture to a healthcare provider. Analysis of the beat-to-beat data allows for a faster more accurate diagnosis and treatment. Additionally, the high ...
The Types And Risk Factors Of An Arrhythmia
... risk to a certain extent and at least work out when you might need to seek some medical help. Here is an overview of the two main types of heart arrhythmia and some of the symptoms you might experience. Plus a general description of the various types of arrhythmia and some insights on the risks you might be facing. Abnormal heartbeat. In basic terms, an arrhythmia, or dysrhythmia as it also sometimes called, is the term used to describe an abnormal or irregular heartbeat. There are plenty of potential causes of arrhythmia including high blood pressure, changes to your heart muscle structure, valve disorders, and electrolyte imbalances, plus a range of other medical conditions that could result in an abnormal heartbeat. It is not unusual for your heartbeat to vary as it will be slower when you are resting and beat faster when you are exercising, but in a healthy heart, you should return to a normal resting heart rate that is somewhere between 60 and 100 beats per minute. Different types of arrhythmias. You will discover ...
Adults May Face Heart Damage From Zika
... affect the heart, so we anticipated that the same might be true for Zika." There has been a case report of Zika in which the cause of death was systemic collapse with bradycardia. Another showed hydrops fetalis on fetal ultrasound of a stillborn infant with Zika virus found in the brain and spinal fluid but not the heart upon autopsy. "While we anticipated that we would see cardiovascular effects from Zika, we were surprised at the severity of findings," Carta said. However, the moderator of the briefing, Martha Gulati, MD , chief of Cardiology for the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix, cautioned that the small study is not able to say anything about how common such complications are: "It certainly is hard to determine the prevalence when we only know who came to that specific clinic. It would be important for us to collect that data long term" as well as try to figure out any phenotype that might predispose to arrhythmia or heart failure ...
Aldridge Out With Heart Condition
... can cause a rapid heartbeat. He underwent a procedure to fix the problem and missed the final nine games of the season. Four years later, he underwent the same procedure and missed time at the start of the 2011-12 season when there was a recurrence of his condition. The Spurs had already clinched a spot in the playoffs for this season and would be likely to proceeded with extreme caution with any injuries in the team for the remaining month of the regular season. The side were already without forward Kawhi Leonard, their leading scorer, because of a concussion for their top of the Western Conference clash against the Golden State Warriors on Sunday (NZ Time). What was billed as a battle of the titans is likely to be a lacklustre affair, with Leonard, Aldridge, and point guards Tony Parker and Dejounte Murray out for the Spurs due to injury, while the Warriors were set to hold star players Stephen Curry, Klay ...
People With Heart Arrhythmia Need To Pay Attention To Stroke Risk
... the heart to a normal rhythm, by either cardioversion or ablation, always removes the risk of stroke,” says Geoffrey Barnes, M. D., M. Sc., one of the University of Michigan researchers and a cardiologist at the U-M Frankel Cardiovascular Center. “It’s an ongoing debate, whether to continue the patient on blood thinners after a procedure.”. Afib procedures as predictors of warfarin discontinuation. Researchers from U-M and other institutions that are part of the Michigan Anticoagulation Quality Improvement Initiative analyzed 734 Afib patients across the state who started warfarin therapy between 2011 and 2013. The researchers found 36.8 percent of subjects were off warfarin within one year of starting it. “When we took into account whether the patient had undergone a recent Afib procedure, the numbers look very different,” says James Froehlich, M. D., M. P. H., also a researcher with the collaborative and a Frankel center cardiologist. “This ...
Magic Johnson Says He’ll Resign As Lakers President ‘if I Can’t Do The Job
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