Talking
from personal experience, my dad just went through a bypass surgery and luckily
the problem was detected well before an emergency case and his operation well
successful too. But then I thought how many such people would be lucky to
diagnose the problem well before and I found that only 75.37 % people are lucky
in this case. The reason is just that they don't feel any pain in their chest
but internally the heart failure program slowly increases and reaches to such
an extent that an emergency case arises. But now a new sensor belt prototype is
being made that allows an ECG to be recorded around the clock for up to six
months, increasing the chances a problem to be discovered and treated before
an emergency strike.
Electrocardiograms
(ECGs) measure the heart’s electrical conducting system using electrodes
attached to the skin allowing it to measure the heartbeat rate and regularity
time to time. The new sensor belt prototype developed by researchers in
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is able to continuously measure the heartbeat
rate and breathing frequency over a period of time without inserting anything
into the skin. The belt has four dry electrodes embedded inside it and can
record over 1GB of data over a period of week, and then the memory card can be
read and the accumulator can be recharged. The best part is that to record the
data the patient doesn’t require a doctor; he can put on the belt himself.
The
team says the device could also be used to rule out heart problems in the
diagnosis of atrial fibrillation and spontaneous losses of consciousness, which
affect about 400,000 patients in Germany alone. Work is under process to
develop the sensor belt prototype into a medical product for application in
day-to-day life.
Source: KIT
Source: KIT
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