Life-saving test picks up baby heart defects

Pulse Oximetry

Pulse Oximetry involves clipping a sensor to a finger or foot and measuring how light is absorbed. The quantity to which red and infrared light is absorbed gives an signal of how well oxygenated the blood is. Poor levels of oxygenation in babies can indicate a heart defect such as a hole in the heart.

Exciting New Breakthrough in Lifesaving Technology 

Defibtech Introduces a Revolutionary New AED

The video screen shows you what to do with clear, easy to understand pictures and text so you can read it, see it and hear it. This means that it is easy to know what to do to help save a life, from preparing a patient and using the AED correctly, to performing CPR and rescue breathing.

Heart valve surgery without opening the chest

Heart Center explores minimally invasive heart valve replacement

procedure. The Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center has

joined a clinical trial evaluating the effectiveness of a novel therapy to replace heart valves using a minimally invasive, catheter-based approach. The first of its kind tissue valve is designed to treat patients with severe aortic heart valve stenosis (a narrowing of the valve that restricts blood flow) who are considered high-risk or not candidates for traditional open heart surgery. “This technology advancement holds promise for a large number of high-risk patients suffering from aortic stenosis but who were not eligible for open-heart surgery,” says Igor Palacios, MD, director of the Heart Center’s Interventional Cardiology Program.