Peninsula Heart Centre NEWS
Career Opportunities
SPECIALIST PRACTICE NURSE Opening up your opportunities to make an impact! Peninsula Heart Centre is relaunching our search for a Nurse now that we have resumed all activities and testing post COVID restrictions. We are a rapidly growing private practice who have...
Cutting edge stent gives patients another shot at life
9News recently interviewed Greg Szto to discuss how a drug-coated bifurcation stent is giving patients new hope….
A different kind of CARAT…
In the next month or so, Dr. Szto and his team will be part of a multi-centre clinical trial (CARAT) assessing the feasibility of injecting a recombinant human apolipoprotein A-1 (CER-001) in reversing cholesterol plaque buildup in coronary arteries. This clinical...
On the road with the paramedics in Frankston
Here is an article about Paramedics and how they bring people to hospital with suspected heart attacks... From the Mornington Peninsula LEADER, 10 AUG 2011 MICA Paramedics Yvette and Cam (seated) treat patient Spencer at his Langwarrin house. Picture:...
How Steve Jobs and Apple enhance my professional life
Today i Sad... Steve Jobs has passed on, and I will mourn the incredible life of a wonderful creative human being. One who has no notion of popular opinion, one who didn't care about what others think, one who only cared about how we will create and enrich our...
Recent results from the European Society of Cardiology meeting
Brief clinical trial results from the recent ESC meeting in Paris: ARISTOTLE: Apixaban (factor Xa inhibitor) bests warfarin in preventing stroke in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation. PRODIGY: Increased bleeding complications in patients taking 24 vs. 6...
Pacing the Heart with Light
In future, you may be able to pace a heart by switching on the light!!! Read on…. http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/38330/ Pacing the Heart with Light A new study uses optogenetics to control beating heart cells, pointing the way toward a better...
Electronic tattoo ‘could revolutionise patient monitoring’
Fancy a tattoo? In hospital, it could be your next type of monitor of your vital signs… Read on... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14489208 11 August 2011 By James Gallagher, BBC News Health An "electronic tattoo" could herald a revolution in...
New Approach to Treating Heart Failure – Omecamtiv Mecarbil
This is referenced from: Drug Discovery and Development, 19 August, 2011 http://www.dddmag.com/news-New-Approach-to-Treating-Heart-Failure-81911.aspx A novel drug that activates a protein that increases the contraction of heart muscle could lead to a new...
What else can you do with an iPhone???
Some people are just ingenious, like this MD who turned the iPhone into an ECG strip recorder…. Here is his website and demonstration video: http://www.alivecor.com/video.htm If you don't want to click on the link, here is the youtube video......