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t’s safe to say that the healthcare industry has witnessed remarkable technological advancements in recent years: robotic arms frequently perform surgery under the control of practitioners; specialised cells genetically engineered to take on cancer in CAR T cell therapy have saved lives when all other treatments failed;


Arrhythmias aren’t that uncommon and usually don’t present a grave health threat. But in places like the ICU, where even slight variations in cardiac output can be symptomatic of pathology, or even threaten the life of a patient, keeping tabs is vital for a quick response with treatment. There are established methods to monitor cardiac output of course, but as technology advances, medical researchers can push the envelope of what’s possible. Sarah Harris speaks to Dr Alexandra Kharazi, cardiothoracic surgeon at CVTS


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Medical Group, and Dr Subasit Acharji, interventional cardiologist at MetroWest Medical Center, to find out about some of the latest methods that could improve cardiac monitoring both in and out of the clinic.


and in the context of the current pandemic, we witnessed the development of vaccines using mRNA technology for which the pioneers were recently given the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine. There’s one area of medicine that’s ripe for improvement though, and it’s arriving in the form of apps connected to monitors in personal gadgets like


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