COVID-19: Optimising heart failure management in the patient’s home
Physicians already recognised the importance of remote management for heart failure patients long before the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the current situation has heightened the...
Apple Watch could be used to record a quasi-standard ECG
Miguel Angel Cobos Gil (Instituto Cardiovascular, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain) outlines in the Annals of Internal Medicine a novel method of using...
Novel device “safely obliterates” left atrial appendage with minimal amount left behind
The novel left atrial appendage (LAA) closure device Appligator (Append Medical) was a finalist in the 2019 ICI Innovation Award Competition (Innovation in Cardiovascular...
Focus on the Zio Patch wearable sensor in diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias
James Teo was the chief investigator in the EPACS clinical trial, testing the performance of the Zio Patch (iRhthym Technologies) wearable biosensor. He outlines...
