Implantable Heart Defibrillator Prolongs Life Expectancy.
Implantable verve defibrillators aimed at preventing unannounced cardiac death are as effective at ensuring patient survival during real-world use as they have proven to be in studies, researchers report. The inexperienced finding goes some way toward addressing concerns that the carefully monitored circumspection offered to patients participating in well-run defibrillator investigations may have oversold their tied up benefits by failing to account for how they might perform in the real-world. The study is published in the Jan 2, 2013 conclusion of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
So "Many people subject how the results of clinical trials apply to patients in routine practice," lead author Dr Sana Al-Khatib, an electrophysiologist and colleague of the Duke Clinical Research Institute in Durham, NC, acknowledged in a gazette news release. "But we showed that patients in real-world practice who receive a defibrillator, but who are most probable not monitored at the same level provided in clinical trials, have similar survival outcomes compared to patients who received a defibrillator in the clinical trials".
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Monday 25 November 2013
Doctors Warn Of The Dangers Of Computer Viruses For Implantable Devices
Doctors Warn Of The Dangers Of Computer Viruses For Implantable Devices.
Implantable devices, such as pacemakers, defibrillators and cochlear implants, are fitting unguarded to "infection" with computer viruses, a researcher in England warns. To make good his point, Mark Gasson, a scientist at the University of Reading's School of Systems Engineering, allowed himself to become "Exhibit A".
Gasson said he became the basic mortal in the world to be infected with a computer virus after he "contaminated" a high-end crystal set frequency identification (RFID) computer chip - the kind often used as a security call in stores to prevent theft - which he had implanted into his left hand. The point, Gasson explained, was to receive attention to the risks involved with the use of increasingly sophisticated implantable medical tool technology.
And "Our research shows that implantable technology has developed to the point where implants are skilled of communicating, storing and manipulating data," he said in a university news release. "They are essentially mini computers. This means that, similarly to mainstream computers, they can be infected by viruses and the technology will basic to keep pace with this so that implants, including medical devices, can be safely used in the future".
Implantable devices, such as pacemakers, defibrillators and cochlear implants, are fitting unguarded to "infection" with computer viruses, a researcher in England warns. To make good his point, Mark Gasson, a scientist at the University of Reading's School of Systems Engineering, allowed himself to become "Exhibit A".
Gasson said he became the basic mortal in the world to be infected with a computer virus after he "contaminated" a high-end crystal set frequency identification (RFID) computer chip - the kind often used as a security call in stores to prevent theft - which he had implanted into his left hand. The point, Gasson explained, was to receive attention to the risks involved with the use of increasingly sophisticated implantable medical tool technology.
And "Our research shows that implantable technology has developed to the point where implants are skilled of communicating, storing and manipulating data," he said in a university news release. "They are essentially mini computers. This means that, similarly to mainstream computers, they can be infected by viruses and the technology will basic to keep pace with this so that implants, including medical devices, can be safely used in the future".
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