Objective and subjective assessment tools (heart rate variability and visual analog scale) were used as indicators of mental workload, while correct responses during an arithmetic task reflected levels of performance.
Kaufmann, T., Sütterlin, S., Schulz, S. M. & Vögele, C. ARTiiFACT: a tool for heart rate artifact processing and heart rate variability analysis.
The 6 variables we created for the screening tool were heart rate, temperature, Glasgow coma scale, TSH, free thyroxine, and precipitating factors.
If mammography proves useful as a screening tool for heart disease, we'll have taken advantage of an incidental finding that, in the past, was misleading, distracting, or just plain confusing.
Hyperpolarized 13C magnetic resonance spectroscopy in pig models enables cardiac metabolism assessment and provides a powerful tool for heart physiology studies, although the low molar concentration of derivate metabolites gives rise to technological limitations in terms of data quality.
Here, our results raise the question of the use of mental practice as a tool for heart failure rehabilitation; notably, in patients who are incapable of performing repetitive movements or lifting loads at the beginning of their rehabilitation.
This will be the first multicentric study to validate MRI T2 quantification as a possible diagnostic tool for heart transplant rejection.
The ECG is a central diagnostic tool for heart diseases since it was described by Einthoven more than one century ago [ 1].
One factor that has constrained acceptance of cardiac I-MIBG imaging as a clinical patient management tool in heart failure has been the variability of technical aspects of the procedure.
