Marek Malik

TL;DR: It is pointed out that in many respects the ACCF/AHA Syncope Statement fails to address long-standing clinical errors associated with the evaluation of episodes of apparent TLOC, including syncope, which may lead to both inadequate patient care as well as a potentially damaging legal environment for physicians undertaking evaluation of patients who present with transient loss of consciousness.

TL;DR: The study suggests that a selected set of non-invasive autonomic tests is sensitive enough to depict moderate improvement in cardiovascular fitness and that a multivariate assessment of cardiovascular fitness based on these tests might be applicable to monitoring chronic cardiac patients subjected to different clinical management modes.

TL;DR: A statistical model of hypothetical devices has been used to demonstrate that the values of incremental specificity and PPA reported by different manufacturers do not have an equivalent meaning and do not offer a valid comparison of the true performance of different dual chamber ICDs.

TL;DR: Automatic recognition of repolarization abnormalities from the standard electrocardiogram (ECG) is of considerable clinical importance, and autonomic variations in automatically measuredRepolarization parameters, including maximum QT interval, global QT dispersion, T area dispersion and principal component analysis ratio 2 (PCA‐2) are examined.