Nearly one year ago, I raised some questions about the safeguards present on ICDs and pacemakers, especially given the expansion of longer-range (”wandless”) telemetry.
Now a group of researchers has gotten access to a device without the normal accompanying computer hardware, normally called a “programmer”. They do note that it required expensive equipment at a [...]

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Clinical Cases and Images has a nice post up with a set of links to and explanations of various ECG/EKG learning tools. They are introduced as follows:

To provide some background, I am a teaching attending at Cleveland Clinic and have multiple rotations during the year with our residents and medical students. We record all topics [...]

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I recently discovered an interesting piece of open-source software, the CESE single-cell simulator. It’s based on Java and runs on a number of platforms.
The point of this simulator is strictly to run single-cell electrophysiological models. It comes with a few of the staples in the field (like the Luo-Rudy dynamic model), and you can [...]

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In this article, a boy was struck by lightning at lacrosse camp, given CPR and defibrillated three times with an AED, and eventually made a full recovery.
Amazing. AEDs continue to come down in price, and are really racking up an extensive list of saved lives.

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I found this neat video on YouTube today when looking at some related videos to my own. This shows how an ectopic focus in the heart can develop into a spiral wave.

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