Noninvasive tattoo monitors children’s hearts
After a pediatric patient has open heart surgery to fix a congenital heart defect, the standard of care calls for continuous electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring for the next two weeks, even if the child has been discharged from the hospital. There’s only one problem, said Animesh Tandon, M.D., director of cardiovascular innovation at Cleveland Clinic’s Pediatric Cardiology Department. There are very few devices on the market that actually offer such monitoring and the ones that are available aren’t exactly kid-friendly.