Cardiac Diagnostics

This channel includes news, videos, podcasts and other content on new technology innovations for cardiac diagnostic systems and techniques. This includes laboratory testing, blood tests including troponin testing, electrocardiogram (ECG) systems, point of care testing systems, genetic testing, cardiac patient monitoring devices including wearable sensors, and studies showing new ways to diagnose heart diseases.

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March 29, 2011 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared a wireless point-of-care testing system that ...

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March 25, 2011 –At Jersey Shore University Medical Center, 66-year-old heart attack survivor Charles Theodora ...

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March 25, 2011 – A new galectin-3 test, recently cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to help ...

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Feature | Keith G. Boman, M.D., FACC

During a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), heart function ceases – abruptly and without warning – most often due to ...

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March 21, 2011 - A pilot study in healthy children and adolescents shows that it is feasible to screen for ...

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Converting from paper-based electrocardiogram (ECG) files and reports to an electronic record system, or switching to a ...

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March 10, 2011 – New guidelines have been published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery that include point-of-care ...

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March 10, 2011 – Five Methodist Healthcare facilities in San Antonio, Texas, are now using a chest pain management ...

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March 1, 2011 – A new study assessing the utility of genetic testing to determine a personalized warfarin dose ...

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February 25, 2011 – A diagnostic test used to help treat patients with high cholesterol received CE mark approval ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

Recent advances in electrocardiogram (ECG) stress testing systems include better waveform analysis algorithms, improved ...

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Healthcare IT vendors offer a variety of cardiovascular information systems (CVIS), picture archiving and ...

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Warren Hospital, an acute care community hospital serving Warren and Hunterdon counties in rural New Jersey ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

As healthcare marches toward completely wireless electronic medical records, Diagnostic and Interventional ...

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February 17, 2011 – Abnormal heart rate turbulence is associated with an increased risk of heart disease death in ...

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