Princeton Longevity Center Announces PinnacleCare Alliance

Princeton Longevity Center & PinnacleCare Announce Alliance to Provide Healthcare Advocacy Support for Patients with Life-Changing Diagnoses

Experts in Preventive Medicine/Executive Health and Concierge Health Advisory Firm Join Forces for Better Patient Access to Specialists, Improved Outcomes

PRINCETON, NJ, BALTIMORE, MD – Oct. 5th, 2020 — Princeton Longevity Center (PLC), the leading experts in preventive medicine and executive health, and PinnacleCare, the premier concierge health advisory firm, today announced that they are partnering so patients will have access to renowned specialists nationwide and facilitated appointments for clinically significant findings requiring quick and expert follow-up.

When a patient receives a life-changing diagnosis, a professional health advisory firm can make all the difference in ensuring the best outcomes by expertly navigating the complexities of the healthcare system. PinnacleCare identifies the best specialists in the country, expedites all appointments and seamlessly manages all details.

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Research Updates on COVID-19: Airplane Transmission, School Openings & More

COVID-19 Research Update
October 1, 2020

During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is vital to make objective and informed decisions that affect your family and loved ones. As part of Princeton Longevity Center’s strategic partnership with PinnacleCare, we are excited to bring you their Pandemic Response Research updates as a complimentary resource through the remainder of this crisis. These updates will bring you factual, objective, scientific information to help make safe decisions for you, your family and your community. Updates, while scientifically based, are easy to understand and will include both resources and references for a more clinical insight.

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Calculating Heart Rate on an EKG

As technology continues to advance, its helped us create shortcuts for our everyday lives. Gone are the days of searching through phone books for a friend’s house line, taking notes with a pad and pen, and even calculating heart rate.

Normally, the software on a cardiac stress test unit calculates heart rate. But what happens if the unit broke? Being able to calculate heart rate on a rhythm strip is an excellent skill to have as a healthcare provider in the event of a power outage or system malfunction. In today’s blog, we’re going to go over how to do this.

The How

An EKG strip is a grid where time is measured along the horizontal axis of the paper. Small squares are 1mm in length representing .04 seconds while large squares are 5mm in length representing .20 seconds. 15 big squares equal 3 seconds of time while 30 big squares equal 6 seconds.


For regular heart rhythms, the heart rate is 300 divided by the number of large squares between the QRS complexes. For example, if there are5 large squares between regular QRS complexes, the heart rate is 60 (300/5=60).

For irregular rhythms, count the number of R waves in a 6 second strip and multiply by 10. For example, if there are 8 R waves in a 6 second strip, the heart rate is 80 (8×10=80).

Conclusion

Today, we seldom need to worry about calculating EKG from scratch. However, its a handy skill to add to a clinicians back pocket if the need ever arose. Not only is it useful, its simple as well!

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Fueling Your Walk or Run

How to fuel up for exercise:

By Barbara Bacal, RD

Wondering what to eat before a walk or run?  Look for a snack that’s easy to digest for a quick energy burst.

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August Takeaway Message

Walking and Running are by far the two most popular go to’s for exercise due to their ease of practice and economy.

Walking can be a great low impact way to achieve general health benefits, daily caloric burn, and minimum aerobic benefits. Running engages larger muscle groups, and uses more energy and oxygen to complete. Both however, are great for overall health and decreasing mortality risk. Choose the one that you feel the most comfortable starting with regarding any injuries or disabilities.

Monitor how you feel using the Rating of Perceived Exertion, or Borg scale, to keep in tune with how your body is responding to the new activity.

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V02Max in Walk and Run

Aerobic Power (V02max output)

This may sound like something a Marvel superhero would possess, but this is actually something we all possess.

Exercise Physiologists often look to a high V02max as the pre-requisite for success in  endurance athletes.(Katch, McArdle, katch). First, what is V02max? V02max is maximum rate of oxygen consumption (uptake) measured during an increasing exercise intensity. Up to a threshold, the harder you work, the more oxygen you uptake. Aerobic power is essentially a synonym for the same concept. Athletes who sustain intense exercise for longer periods of time possess large aerobic capacity (Katch, McArdle, Katch).

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Walking vs. Running: Caloric Expenditure

Should I walk or Should I run?

Its a question we ask ourselves generally any time we want to get some aerobic activity in. “Running is hard, but I can do a lot within a short amount of time” or ” Walking is easy, but I’d have to walk really far to get the benefits” sounds like an inner monologue before deciding ultimately to not exercise all together. To prevent this, we attempt to answer this question at least from a caloric perspective. In other words, which is the most efficient at burning calories.

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