As more consumer-facing devices add features to measure the heart’s electrical activity, companies are looking for new ways to turn this data into valuable health information. AliveCor, a startup that ...

Having access to less intrusive QT interval measurement with flexibility around the time and place of the appointment is important 3.1 Psychiatric service user experts explained that it is important ...

Objective: To assess health care practitioners' ability to correctly measure the QT interval, and to identify factors and medications that may increase the risk of QT-interval prolongation and ...

AliveCor is also offering a service called InstantQT™ to assist in measuring QT intervals through an FDA-cleared, ECG processing software. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the ...

AliveCor's at-home EKG device won FDA clearance to calculate a heart's QT interval, a measurement of how long it takes the ventricles to contract and relax. This is vital given that some drugs can ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . AliveCor announced it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its mobile, handheld ECG device for the calculation of a ...

Uncertainty remains regarding the value of heart-rate-corrected QT interval (QTc) prolongation on electrocardiogram for predicting cardiovascular disease (CVD), particularly among Asian populations.

Copenhagen, Denmark - A team of Danish researchers have shown that certain patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) may benefit from the class III antiarrhythmic drug dofetilide (Tikosyn? - Pfizer ...

ADInstruments has announced that PowerLab systems are being used to establish the zebrafish as a model for assessing drug effects on cardiac function, using QT prolongation as a key indicator.

Similarly, subjects with an increased QT dispersion (QTd), which may mirror discrepant repolarization characteristics of different areas of the heart, show an increased cardiovascular mortality and ...

This section describes the evidence gaps, why they need to be addressed and their relative importance for future committee decision making. The committee will not be able to make a positive ...