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New Message Inbox: S.O.S.!!! Your Heart ECG...

No word about pricing and availability, for the time being

By Roxana Deduleasa, Communications News Editor

19th of July 2007, 16:11 GMT

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It's summer, it's hot, and mostly, these are dangerous times for your heart, as it's indirectly affected by the high temperature. Recently, it was estimated that around 22 million people worldwide are at risk of sudden heart failure every minute. This should scare us and make us buy one of these gizmos.

Apparently, scientists
from India have successfully developed a device that measures the electrical signals as received from your heart. Then the device analyses them to produce an electrocardiogram and sends it to the owner. But the best part is that the messaging part is possible in various ways such as: through the mobile communication devices, via SMS and through the PCs, using the e-mail.

The Bluetooth monitor can record the electrocardiograms periodically and automatically transmits the information via radio frequency signals, straight to the patient's cell phone.

But the mobile communication device is not a typical one, but a modified one that has an embedded analyzer circuit, capable of checking the ECG signals for any signal of an imminent cardiac failure. If we think it over, this incredibly useful device could be a real help for the ones that have already went through a heart attack, and stand a higher chance of receiving immediately life-saving treatment within an hour. So, if you're somewhere performing any outdoor activity, these risks could be considerably reduced.

The Indian researchers are continuing their work on a brand new innovative global-positioning system, GPS, to be integrated in the modified cell phone. This would make the medical center receive the SOS message quicker. Thulasi Bai and S.K. Srivatsa of the Sathyabama University in India are the ones that have developed the wearable cardiac telemedicine system that allows post-cardiac patients renewed mobility.

According to Xinhuanet, they stated: "Our monitor can help the mobility of patients, so they can regain their independence and return to an active social life or work schedule," explains Bai, "thereby improving their psychological well-being and quality of life."

There is no word regarding the pricing and the availability, at least for the time being.

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