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Heartbeats on IPods - Being ‘cool’ can Help Doctors to

...aches cardiology his technique- recording abnormal heartbeats on an iPod or CD and having it being listened to 400 times, by physicians, can more than double their rate of detecting an abnormal heartbeat. Why this is important is not only because using the stethoscope is so vital to a doctor in diagnosing hi...

Altered Sodium Channel Function Linked to Heart Failure

...ial molecular explanation for the abnormally rapid heartbeats known as ventricular tachyarrhythmias (VTs) that can cause the sudden death associated with heart failure. Individuals who inherit mutations in genes regulating the influx of sodium ions (Na+) into the muscle cells of the heart through Na+ channels...

This World Heart Day, Be Proactive, Get the Facts

...es of the heart and coronary arteries in just five heartbeats - something no other CT system can offer. In a single rotation, the LightSpeed VCT creates 64 submillimeter images, totaling 40 millimeter of anatomical coverage, which may be combined to form a three-dimensional view of the patient's anatomy for phy...

A Unique Technique To Visualize How The heart functions Developed

...he precise events from regular rhythm to irregular heartbeats would help researchers to understand better the causes of arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death.Describing seven of the "Pittsburgh" dyes, PGH I to IV and VI to VIII, for short, in the current issue of the Journal of Membrane Biology, they explain tha...

Seconds Between Life And Death

...f the heart. This involves an abnormal increase in heartbeats that can even reach 400 beats a minute. At that point the heart ceases to stop pumping blood. If an electrical discharge is administered with a defibrillator in those crucial two to ten minutes the chances of survival can go even up to 100%. Today ...

Hospitals In India Opt For High-tech Scanners

...nners are capable of capturing images in just five heartbeats unlike the previous one. // In less than 15 mont...r and consistent diagnosis can be done within five heartbeats after which there can be variable in results. "After five seconds, the heart rate starts to increa...

ADHD Drugs Should Have All The Warnings On The Label

...ure, chest pain, heart attacks, strokes, irregular heartbeats and fainting. Dr. Peter Gross, the panel chairman and head of internal medicine at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey said that the side effect such as sudden death should be made clear to the physicians. The disease is commonly d...

Time magazine has recognized efforts of two Indian doctors towards reducing infant mortality rate

...ant sleeping bags and an abacus to record every 10 heartbeats could sort out these problems. The last but the very important step was the training and health education imparted to the health care workers who were able to manage a few of the reproductive and child health problems. The couple has also built a...

TWO India Doctors Listed in TIME for Contribution to Global Health

...ant sleeping bags and abacus for counting every 10 heartbeats in infant would considerably reduce the infant death rate as they found 18 causes of infant death, including malnutrition and the strange habit of starvation among expectant tribal mothers who believe this makes the delivery easier, the couple starte...

New Implantable Device That Can Keep The Heart Ticking

...group. Significantly, sudden deaths from irregular heartbeats were reduced from 14 in the standard treatment group to just three in the defibrillator group. Based on their findings researchers however say “the use of these devices should be considered on a case-by-case basis.”...

Anger and exercise set off irregular heartbeats

...e who have abnormal heart rhythms. These irregular heartbeats can be life threatening. The defibrillators automatically give the patient a shock to the heart to restore normal rhythm of the heart. The shock is often described as a kick in the chest. If the patient does not receive this shock, they could die. R...

Ordinary drugs can interfere with death from cardiac problems

...interfere with the electrical activity controlling heartbeats that can increase the risk of sudden cardiac death. These drugs are those that can prolong the duration of electrical activity that controls the cells of the heart muscle. They affect the QTc interval in the heart and this is often expressed in elec...

Strong emotions can cause heart problems

... implanted devices can detect abnormalities in the heartbeats and can deliver electric shocks to get the heart back into the right rhythm. The patients were to record the emotions they felt and how strongly, in a scale of 1 to 5, immediately before they felt an electric shock from the implanted device. Out of ...

Being Overweight Could Lead To Irregular Heartbeats

... that their finding is important because irregular heartbeats can lead to earlier death, even when people are receiving treatments aimed at bringing the heartbeat back to normal. Researchers say they have found the link between obesity and atrial fibrillation, a common irregular heart rhythm, in a follow-up st...

Identifying Irregular Heart Beats

... Researchers say identifying people with irregular heartbeats sooner rather than later could help save many lives, because effective treatments exist to combat the problem and they also recommend that people should have their pulse checked by a physician to screen for atrial fibrillation at every doctor’s visit...

New Test To Detect Irregular Heartbeats

People with irregular heartbeats also known as atrial fibrillation run a higher ris... brain. A new test to monitor people for irregular heartbeats identifies problems missed by standard tests, find researchers. Investigators evaluated about 150 p...

Death due to premature heartbeat after exercise

...searchers found that only 2 per cent had premature heartbeats during recovery after exercise compared to 3 per c...t 11% compared to 9% in patients who had premature heartbeats during exercise and only 5% in those who did not have premature heartbeats. Doctors thus concluded t...

Altitude sickness connected to genes

...order, causing fluid in the lungs, weakness, rapid heartbeats and difficulty breathing. The researchers say death occurs in 40 percent of people who are not treated or moved to a lower altitude. Researchers from Japan report on a genetic variation. They found climbers who had experienced HAPE were more likely ...

FDA approves first pocket-sized EKG machine

...signals, used to diagnose heart attacks, irregular heartbeats and other cardiac problems.// The new PocketView ECG works just as well as full-size electrocardiograph machines, the Food and Drug Administration determined - but is the size of a handheld computer. In fact, it's actually made from a Compaq hand-h...

FDA issues warning for Droperidol

...sed by anesthesiologists can cause fatal irregular heartbeats at lower doses than expected, prompting the government to urge doctors to try different medications. At issue is droperidol, a tranquilizer often used to treat the nausea many people feel after undergoing anesthesia. Droperidol has long carried a wa...

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