Healthcare systems are under increasing strain due to a myriad of factors, from a steadily
ageing global population to the current COVID-19 pandemic. In a world where we have …

The adoption of wearables in medicine has expanded worldwide with a rapidly growing
number of consumers and new features capable of real-time monitoring of health …

Remote monitoring and control of heart function are of primary importance for patient
evaluation and management, especially in the modern era of precision medicine and …

Aims The diagnostic accuracy of proprietary smartwatch algorithms and the interpretability of
smartwatch ECG tracings may differ between available models. We compared the diagnostic …

Methods In this prospective nonrandomised study we included 734 consecutive hospitalised
patients≥ 18 years of age who provided informed consent. All patients underwent 12-lead …

Smartwatches that support the recording of a single-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) are
increasingly being used beyond the wrist, by placement on the ankle and on the chest …

Clinical decision-making regarding syncope poses challenges, with risk of physician error
due to the elusive nature of syncope pathophysiology, diverse presentations, heterogeneity …

Background When worn on the wrist, smartwatch electrocardiograms may provide important
but incomplete information. Aims We sought to evaluate the added benefit of placing the …

Background Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are used by physicians to record, monitor, and
diagnose the electrical activity of the heart. Recent technological advances have allowed …

Patients with weak or no symptoms accelerate the spread of COVID-19 through various
mutations and require more aggressive and active means of validating the COVID-19 …