Sunny days, brighter ideas! Hey! It’s a new month and PersonalizeAF people know it 🙂 May approaches towards its end and, with it, longer days are often also sunny days. To me, that makes easier to focus on work, as I really feel the opportunity to do some activities outside afterwards. Regarding my research, I …
Transitions Spring came with challenges and new developments for my project in PersonalizeAF! Time has been running faster than I can follow up during this pandemic. April went by in the blink of an eye and here I am already a few days late for my post. This was a month for transitions: winter is …
Teamwork always work If you ever find yourself in a cloud don’t go through it alone.. Hey all, this is Narimane early stage researcher 10 from Bordeaux. Let me say, it was a very intense month, we were kept very busy with the lectures, assignments, and deadlines. As you may already know, the second workshop …
Ready to work in three fronts Main Project The core of openCARP is complicated and it has many layers. For that reason, it took me a bit to understand the code. However, my understanding has significantly improved in the last weeks. I have also implemented a big part of the eikonal model part in openCARP …
Keep moving, keep learning! Hi there! It has been a long time since my last post but I have new things to tell you all! In the Easter break I had the opportunity to go to Munich to visit one of my best friends since my university years in Valencia. Four years after living an …
How virtual hearts can save real hearts Patricia MartĂnez DĂaz 4. May. 2021 In previous blogs, we talked about the theoretical basis for understanding how virtual hearts are made. We described the Hodking-Huxley mathematical models and how they helped us to improve our knowledge of the electrical activity of cells. In fact, those equations were …
Clinical Decision Support Systems Hello and welcome, happy readers! I hope you are well and in good health in these difficult times. Today I would like to talk to you about clinical decision support systems- early implementations, the existing types, and state of the art techniques. Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are computer-based programs that …
CV? Curriculum Vitae? Oh, Conduction Velocity! Getting deeper in the calculus of substrate magnitudes It has been a while since I began the journey of my PhD. I remember that, especially in the first months, I spent a lot of my time reading about atrial fibrillation (AF), therapies to treat it, like pulmonary vein isolation …
Inducing fibrillation episodes ex vivo Hi there! As I mentioned in my last post, this post will be dedicated to inducing atrial fibrillation in tissue culture. If we think about the “macro” triggers which increase the predisposition for fibrillating episodes to happen, this can be due to several risk factors such as comorbidities, emotional triggers …
Is there room for creativity in science? Scientists have very strict methods to follow during their work. Can they be creative despite it? The months of March and April are being very eventful for the ESRs of PersonalizeAF. We had our 2nd Consortium meeting last month, which has been a great opportunity to see what …
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