Parkinson disease (PD) is associated with a greater prevalence of arrhythmias among hospitalized adults and may increase the risk for mortality, according to study results presented at the American ...

My watch has an electrocardiogram (EKG) function, and it immediately said I was in atrial fibrillation at a rate of 100-130 ...

Department of Internal Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland (T.J.N.). Division of Medicine, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland (T.J.N.). Department of ...

With heart rate monitors now standard in smartwatches and fitness trackers, electrocardiograms (ECG/EKG) have rapidly become a common feature in health wearables. The technology is designed to ...

Table 4. Confusion matrix of ECG-based cardiac arrhythmia detection. Further, if atrial flutter is considered together with atrial fibrillation the results become 99.5% sensitivity and 87.6% ...

Stroke is a serious risk for patients with atrial fibrillation, which is caused by a disruption of electrical signals in the muscles of the upper chambers of the heart. When the heart pumps in an ...

Learn the anatomy and physiology of the heart, including the electrical conduction system and how it affects heart function, so you can become a certified EKG technician. The course covers the cardiac ...

ECG Challenge: C diff Infection With Irregular Pulse While being treated for a C diff infection, a patient with COPD is found to have an irregular pulse. What does his ECG show?

Patients with nonvalvular paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) may have occult LV disease. Flow distribution analysis, based on 4-D flow, may unmask the presence of LV disease by assessing flow ...