New technique diagnoses non-periodic arrhythmias in a single heartbeat

Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 14:30 in Health & Medicine

Thanks to a new study from Columbia Engineering School, doctors may now be able to diagnose in their offices non-periodic arrhythmias—noninvasively and at low cost—within a single heartbeat. Non-periodic arrhythmias include atrial and ventricular fibrillation, which are associated with severely abnormal heart rhythm that can in some cases be life-threatening.

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