High-tech vests creates 3-D heart map, locates abnormal heartbeats

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Peering into a patient’s heart and locating potentially-deadly irregular heartbeats takes surgery with a catheter. But, a new high-tech vest is a new way to bypass that in some cases.
CardioInsight is a vest is created from hundreds of electrodes that yield a 3-D map of a patient’s heart, which helps doctors find abnormal heartbeats.
It is a view from the outside in, said Dr. Amin Al-Ahmad, cardiac electrophysiologist at the Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institu