Taoski, of Inside the Blue Talent Triangle has a couple of posts on his adventures wearing a Holter monitor (a.k.a ambulatory ECG) and meeting with an Ewok. I’d be interested to wear one and see what my ECG looked like as I went about my life, doing things like spontaneously running after the St.Charles bus as it slips off into the distance.
Category Archives: Cardiac Electrophysiology
Do-it-yourself E(K/C)G Kit
It’s pretty difficult to make an ECG, at least if you’re not an electronics expert. Everyone in my electronics lab during undergrad had trouble with theirs.
Nonetheless, if you’d like to try making one, this do-it-yourself kit (via medGadget) should help.
I can’t see too many uses for this besides watching your own signals, but who knows. Be creative.
Guidant Merger Madness
medGadget has an article on the continuing merger madness occurring with Guidant. For those of you not familiar with the company, they’re one of the top manufacturers of ICDs in the world. As the timeline that medGadget links to briefly notes, Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson have been fighting over the company for a while, despite their recent issues with faulty device programming.
Video Archive of Lectures by Experts on Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmias
During our time at Washington University in St.Louis, I had the opportunity to attend many of the lectures given by the Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center (CBAC). I noticed that they digitally record video and audio from all of these lectures. Luckily, these are posted online, so that I may continue to follow the series even though I have returned to Tulane.
These are some of the top people in the field, presenting cutting-edge research. If you have an interest in cardiac electrophysiology, I highly recommend that you watch these videos.
CBAC – Education – Video Archives
All material within each video file was filmed during a Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia Center (CBAC) seminar at Washington University in St. Louis. It was made available on this website with permission from the speaker, who reserves and holds all rights. The video files are for educational purposes only and may not reproduced, distributed or copied in any format.
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