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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Cardiac Device"”.
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Improving Patient Satisfaction through Reducing Nurse Overtime and Redesigning Nurse Staffing and Scheduling
<p>Increasing cardiac device patient demands within a large Midwest healthcare institution resulted in significant increases in staff shift requirements and corresponding patient complaints. The quality improvement project aimed to decrease patient complaints by executing a standard baseline daily …
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Illness perceptions of heart failure patients with an implanted device : relationship to psychological distress and quality of life
Background:CRT and CRT-D are implanted cardiac devices used in the heart failure population. To date, there is an absence of research examining psychosocial functioning and non·medical predictors of CRT and CRT-D patient outcomes.Main Aim:To utilise Leventhal's self-regulatory model as a framework …
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Parametric heart modelling and in silico closed-loop validation of implantable devices
Medical Cyber-Physical systems (MCPS), such as cardiac pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), are life-critical and context-aware. These devices have been increasingly used to provide continuous health-care for patients. The complicated heterogeneous physical dynamics of …
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MODERNIZATION OF THE MOCK CIRCULATORY LOOP: ADVANCED PHYSICAL MODELING, HIGH PERFORMANCE HARDWARE, AND INCORPORATION OF ANATOMICAL MODELS
… in vitro assessment tool for left heart medical devices. The standard design employed by many research groups dates to the early 1970's, and lacks the acuity needed for the advanced device designs currently being explored. The necessity to update the architecture of this in vitro tool has become …
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ST Monitoring on the Programmer for Implantable Cardioverter Devices
… and recent studies have shown that intracardiac electrogram has many benefits over external monitoring such as holter. ST Monitoring feature has been added to St. Jude Medical intracardiac cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) to leverage the ECG technology for identifying cardiovascular …