Syncopes are a very common phenomenon and have a high recurrence rate. The differentiation between the psychogenic and physical, especially of arrhythmic origin, remains difficult. In many cases, an implantable loop recorder is used for the detection...
Purpose: Syncope remains a common medical problem. Recently, the role of dedicated syncope units and implantable loop recorders has emerged in the investigation of unexplained syncope. This study aims to investigate the possibilities for a more ratio...
Implantable loop recorders (ILR) are devices that are implanted subcutaneously on the chest, which enables the continuous monitoring of arrhythmias for up to three years. These devices have an important role in helping to make a diagnosis and support...
Up to 20% of patients with ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack have a prior history of known atrial fibrillation (AF). Additionally, unknown AF can be detected by different monitoring strategies in up to 23% of patients with cryptogenic or n...
In patients with unexplained syncope, implantable loop recorders (ILR) are used to detect arrhythmias as a cause of syncope. This study aimed to assess the diagnostic yield and clinical implications arising from ILR implantation in patients with sync...
Background/Objectives: Implantable loop recorders (ILRs) are widely used for the diagnosis of unexplained syncope, palpitations, and cryptogenic stroke. While ILRs demonstrate clinical utility, data on their diagnostic yield and value in real-world s...
Loop recorders continuously monitor a patient’s ECG and have a “retrospective” programmable memory to store heart rhythm abnormalities [1] [...]
Objectives: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia associated with stroke, heart failure, and increased mortality. Due to its efficacy and safety, cryoballoon ablation (CBA) is widely accepted for rhythm control; however, lo...
Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is common in heart failure with mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction (HFmrEF/HFpEF) and has a negative impact on outcome. Reliable data on prevalence, incidence, and detection of AF from contemporary, pro...
Background/Objectives: Implantable loop recorders (ILRs) enable long-term electrocadiographic monitoring and are established diagnostic tools for syncope and atrial fibrillation (AF). However, their diagnostic yield and therapeutic impact in other cl...
Background: The best ablation treatment for persistent atrial fibrillation (PeAF) patients is still debated. The vein of Marshall (VOM) seems to be a promising target for ablation and could be combined with a linear set of ablation lesions. The aim o...
The investigation of recurrent unexplained syncope is a challenging clinical problem, as syncope remains unexplained in up to 60% of patients referred to an emergency department. In spite of the demonstrated benefit of a standardised stepwise non inv...
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Many medication errors in the hospital setting are due to manual, error-prone processes in the medication management system. Closed-loop Electronic Medication Management Systems (EMMSs) use technology to prevent medication errors by replacing manual...
We report the case of a 54-year-old patient with bilateral silicone breast implants in whom successful implantation of a subcutaneous loop recorder led to the diagnosis that explained her repeated syncopal events.
Closed-loop implantable electronics offer a new trend in therapeutic systems aimed at controlling some neurological diseases such as epilepsy. Seizures are detected and electrical stimulation applied to the brain or groups of nerves. To this aim, the...
Background: An implantable loop recorder (ILR) represents the gold standard in the diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias in patients with neurological or cardiac symptoms. Our study aimed to determine the real-world diagnostic effectiveness of ILRs in det...
Electrically evoked auditory potentials have been used to predict auditory thresholds in patients with a cochlear implant (CI). However, with exception of electrically evoked compound action potentials (eCAP), conventional extracorporeal EEG recordin...
Aims—Electrocardiography (ECG) and echocardiographic left atrial (LA) parameters may be helpful to assess the risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) in embolic stroke of unknown etiology (ESUS) and could therefore guide intensity of ECG monitoring. M...
We have developed a closed-loop, high-throughput system that applies electrical stimulation and optical recording to facilitate the rapid characterization of extracellular, stimulus-evoked neuronal activity. In our system, a microelectrode array deli...
(1) Background: Insects, which serve as model systems for many disciplines with their unique advantages, have not been extensively studied in gait research because of the lack of appropriate tools and insect models to properly study the insect gaits....
In this work, we propose exchange-coupled-composite-bit-patterned media (ECC-BPM) with microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) to improve the writability of the magnetic media at a 4 Tb/in2 recording density. The suitable values of the applied m...
Second-degree atrioventricular (AV) block is the most common cardiac arrhythmia in horses, affecting 40–90% depending on breed. Usually, the AV blocks occur while the horses are resting and disappear upon exercise and are, therefore, considered...
Manual data entry in dialysis centers is time-consuming, error-prone, and increases the administrative burden on healthcare professionals. Traditional optical character recognition (OCR) systems partially automate this process but lack the ability to...
This paper presents an amplifier with low noise, high gain, low power consumption, and high linearity for electrocardiogram (ECG) recording. The core of this design is a chopper-stabilized capacitive-feedback operational transconductance amplifier (O...
The work presents the methods of collecting and processing data with the use of devices used in individual measurement methods. Based on the collected video materials, the number of vehicles was determined, which at both measuring points actually exc...
Objective: To assess the frequency and types of genetic mutations in patients with arrhythmias who underwent cardiac device implantation. Methods: Retrospective observational study, including 38 patients with different arrhythmias and cardiac arrest...
Background. The incidence and burden of arrhythmias in myocarditis are under-reported. Objective. We aimed to assess the diagnostic yield and clinical impact of continuous arrhythmia monitoring (CAM) in patients with arrhythmic myocarditis. Methods....
Background: In patients with embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS), occult atrial fibrillation (AF) has been implicated as a key source of cardioembolism. However, only a minority acquire implantable cardiac loop recorders (ILRs) to detect occ...
Background and Objectives: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia, present in up to 14–20% of patients undergoing cardiac surgery, with the number of patients expected to double within the next decade. Despite a Class I...
No studies have investigated whether optimizing implantable cardiac monitors (ICM) programming can reduce false-positive (FP) alerts. We identified patients implanted with an ICM (BIOMONITOR III) who had more than 10 FP alerts in a 1-month retrospect...
Objective: Implantable cardiac monitors (ILR) have an important role in diagnosing unexplained syncope. However, outcomes of primary vs. delayed ILR implantation after initial syncope evaluation have not been explored. Methods: A total of 1705 patien...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in horses causing poor performance. As in humans, the condition can be intermittent in nature, known as paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (pAF). This review covers the literature relating to pAF in...
Background: Injectable cardiac monitors (ICMs) are leadless subcutaneous devices for long-term monitoring of arrhythmias. The BIOTRONIK BIOMONITOR III is a novel ICM with a miniaturized profile, long sensing vector, and simplified implantation techni...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, characterized by an unprecedented fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres, continues the trend to manufacture ever smaller mechanical, optical and elect...
The application of cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging in clinical practice has grown due to technological advancements and expanded clinical indications, highlighting its superior capabilities when compared to echocardiography for the assessmen...
Despite advances in syncope evaluation strategies and risk stratification, the high cost of syncope is largely driven by extensive and often repetitive testing. This analysis of a large deidentified US claims database compared the use of diagnostic t...
Identifying failure modes is an important task to improve the design and reliability of a product and can also serve as a key input in sensor selection for predictive maintenance. Failure mode acquisition typically relies on experts or simulations wh...
Electrical stimulation is ubiquitous as a method for activating neuronal tissue, but there is still significant room for advancement in the ability of these electrical devices to implement smart stimulus waveform design to more selectively target pop...
High-density microelectrode arrays (HDMEAs) have become increasingly important tools in neuroscience and biomedical engineering because of their high spatial and temporal resolution for recording and modulating electrical activity across diverse biol...
Background/Objectives: Syncope remains a common problem in the elderly, adversely affecting quality of life, morbidity and mortality. Diagnosis is challenging due to the atypical presentation, multifactorial aetiology, overlap with non-syncoptic fall...
Human-in-the-loop pipelines are widely used in artificial intelligence (AI)-based inspection systems, coupling an automated model, human reviewers, and an organizational reporting layer that drives decisions and, potentially, model retraining. The cl...
We characterised radio-frequency identification (RFID) transitions among monitored areas of a commercial multi-tier aviary using a four-stage cohort of 2162 Lohmann Brown hens. The analysis used 204 retained dates from 21 November 2016 to 15 November...
Flood events are major drivers of soil erosion and sediment yield on the Loess Plateau, where extensive ecological restoration has been implemented. This study investigates runoff–sediment dynamics by analyzing 215 flood events recorded in the...
Offline action prediction does not by itself guarantee reliable closed-loop flight for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) vision-language-action (VLA) models. We study a controlled AirSim Blocks waypoint task using 100 expert episodes and 3385 RGB-D, inst...
Introduction: Remote device monitoring is indicated under class I A standard of care according to the latest HRS/EHRA/APHRS/LAHRS Expert Consensus Statement on Practical Management of the Remote Device Clinic. Despite this strong endorsement and the...
Rehabilitation of paralysis caused by a stroke or a spinal cord injury remains a complex and time-consuming task. This work proposes a hybrid exoskeleton approach combining a traditional exoskeleton and functional electrical stimulation (FES) as a pr...
Artificial intelligence (AI), explainable AI (XAI), digital twins, and intelligent decision-support systems are increasingly proposed for water management, yet existing reviews usually emphasize algorithms or architectures rather than the evidence ch...
This paper indicates a significant problem of uncertainty of fault loop impedance (FLI) measurement in circuits powered from uninterruptible power supply (UPS) (double-conversion AC-DC-AC). The correctly determined value of this impedance, related to...
Background: Precise decoding of brain states is essential for closed-loop neuromodulation, but current electrodes and recording strategies are inadequate. Multi-region recording offers network-level advantages over single-region approaches, yet remai...
Event-triggered model predictive control (MPC) updates the control input only when needed, but it still solves an optimization problem at every event, which on the studied cart–pole can exceed its 10 ms control period. We propose a compact mult...
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