Health eCareers on MSN

12 Hours on the Frontlines: A Day in the Life of an ICU Nurse

In the ICU, the cardiac monitors constantly beep—beeps that follow you to sleep and invade your dreams. Has my patient’s ...
The Brown and White

AcQumen Medical wins competition for heart monitoring device

Dori Jones, ‘07, won entrepreneurship competition StartUp Lehigh Valley with her medical device company AcQumen Medical.
Medscape

Predicting Cardiac Shock Mortality in the ICU

Addition of echocardiogram measurement of biventricular dysfunction improved the accuracy of prognosis among patients with cardiac shock (CS) in the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU). In patients in ...
News Medical

COstatus monitors could offer way to directly measure cardiac output among neonates

Clinicians caring for vulnerable babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) need to closely monitor their vital signs, but precisely gauging the function of their tiny hearts has remained ...
KPBS

Wearable patch can measure a heart’s performance

Scientists at UC San Diego have designed a wearable heart monitor they say could take the place of a hospital cardiogram. KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge tells us about this new device about the ...