Items Tagged ‘Dr. Michael Ackerman’
June 26, 2014
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations Wall Street Journal Obesity Is Undercounted in […]
Tags: 3D mammograms, ABC News Australia, ABC30, aging, Agnes Rapacz, Allevant Solutions, alzheimer's disease, American News Report, angina, ANSA, anti-obesity devic, AP
May 1, 2013
ECG Alarm Alerts Docs to Silent Killer
An institution-wide, computer-based alert system for irregular heart rhythms identified and characterized patients at risk of death, researchers found. Patients identified by the alert system with a greater than 500 ms corrected interval between the Q and T waves of their ECG cycle had a significantly higher risk of death compared with a QTc interval […]
Tags: alert system, Dr. Michael Ackerman, ECG alarm, irregular heart rhythms, MedPage Today
April 30, 2013
New Mayo tool IDs heart patients at risk for premature death
Researchers from the Mayo Clinic have developed a computer-aided electronic warning system to help identify patients at risk for premature death, such as from an abnormality in the heart’s electrical system, the institution recently announced. Findings on the system were published in this month’s Mayo Clinic Proceedings…What’s more, lead study author Michael Ackerman, a pediatric cardiologist at […]
Tags: computer program, Dr. Michael Ackerman, electronic warning, FierceHealthIT, Mayo Clinic Children's Center, premature death
April 10, 2013
Arrhythmia drug unavailable in most countries: study
An inexpensive drug that can prevent some life-threatening heart rhythm problems is unavailable in most places, according to a new survey of doctors in 131 countries…Only about one in 10,000 people inherits Brugada syndrome and even fewer have symptoms, according to Dr. Michael Ackerman, who studies heart disorders at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota…”Quinidine […]
Tags: arrhythmia, arrhythmia drug, Brugada syndrome, Dr. Michael Ackerman, Quinidine, Reuters, Reuters Health, unavailable
July 30, 2012
Genetic Tests Could Explain Why Some Children and Teens Die Unexpectedly
DNA provides proof. In 1998, Michael Ackerman, a researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, heard about a 19-year-old athlete who had died after nearly drowning in only four feet of water while swimming at a fitness club in Iowa. At the time, Ackerman and several colleagues were studying a genetic disease called long QT […]
Tags: Dr. Michael Ackerman, Long QT Syndrome, Washington Post