Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

FDA clears algorithms that detect heart murmurs and AFib

You may want your doctor to have this in a testing protocol prior to hospital discharge.  Does your hospital have a way for patients to suggest improvements? If not you need new hospital leadership, starting with the board of directors. 

FDA clears algorithms that detect heart murmurs and AFib

 

Christine Fisher
Contributing Writer







Eko
The FDA just granted clearance to a suite of algorithms that could help healthcare providers in the US more accurately screen for heart conditions during routine physical exams. The algorithms, developed by Eko, can help detect both heart murmurs, indicative of valvular or structural heart disease, and atrial fibrillation, or AFib, which can lead to blood clots, strokes, heart failure and other complications.
According to the company, the AI can identify heart murmurs with 87 percent sensitivity and 87 percent specificity. In comparison, primary care physicians unaided by AI had a 43 percent sensitivity and 69 percent specificity, according to a study in European Heart Journal. When used with the Eko DUO stethoscope, the AI reportedly detected AFib with 99 percent sensitivity and 97 percent specificity.
"Two centuries after its invention, the stethoscope is still the front line tool to detect cardiovascular disease," says Dr. Patrick McCarthy, Executive Director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Medicine and member of Eko's Scientific Advisory Board. "Eko's development of artificial intelligence algorithms to help clinicians better interpret sounds, identify arrhythmias and detect heart murmurs during a physical exam is going to make a huge difference in our ability to care for patients."
The AI is meant to be used with Eko's digital stethoscopes, which are already on the market. This FDA clearance gives the company the greenlight to deploy its murmur- and AFib-detection algorithms. In December, the FDA granted another Eko algorithm "breakthrough status," fast-tracking it for approval. That algorithm uses ECG data to identify Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction (LVEF), a measure commonly used to diagnose heart failure. If and when that algorithm is cleared, Eko's digital stethoscopes will be able to use AI to screen for heart failure, valve disease and AFib, and all of that will be possible during routine physical exams.
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