Florida law now requires ECGs for new high school student-athletes

A new state law requires ECGs and physicals for all high schoolers who have never played an FHSSA sport. Here's where your student can go.
Opinion
HealioOpinion

Q&A: Mandating ECGs not the solution to protect athletes’ hearts

ECG screening can assist in the detection of potentially life-threatening cardiac conditions, but legislation mandating preparticipation screening for young athletes may do more harm than good, ...
BMJ

641 MEP178 – Screening for cardiac arrhythmia with the single-lead wearable ECG monitoring during the endurance exercise in athletes

Pre-screening is crucial for athletes to reduce the risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD). However, 12 lead ECG screening alone is insufficient to prevent SCD. Objective This study aims to determine the ...
BMJ

Imaging associations enhance the understanding of ECG abnormalities in male Brazilian football players: findings from the B-Pro Foot ECG study

Correspondence to Ricardo Stein, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre 90035-903, Brazil; rstein{at}cardiol.br Objectives To evaluate the prevalence of abnormal ECG findings and ...
Hackaday

Card/IO Is A Credit Card-Sized, Open Source ECG Monitor

Of all the electrical signals generated by the human body, those coming from the heart are probably the most familiar to the average person. And because it’s also quite simple to implement the ...

HeartBeam (NASDAQ: BEAT) Collaborates With Mount Sinai to Advance AI-ECG Algorithm Development

HeartBeam (NASDAQ: BEAT) announced a strategic collaboration with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New ...