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 [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

What is the mind? Is it a product of the brain, or does it come from somewhere else? Is there a ghost in the machine?
A number of things have brought this source of controversy to my mind recently. One is that I just finished the second season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone [...]

[Read more →]

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.

[Read more →]

About this time five years ago, I was a nervous junior undergraduate studying Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University. I had just been accepted as an undergraduate member of Dr. Natalia Trayanova’s computational cardiac electrophysiology lab. The goal at that time was to complete a research project for my undergraduate thesis.

So very many things have [...]

[Read more →]