Can Heart Attacks Be Predicted To Save Lives?

by HerbalBloom on Friday, August 6th, 2010 | No Comments

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Can Heart Attacks Be Predicted To Save Lives?

In this area one of every five deaths in the United States are attributed to heart diseases. But, scientists may now well be on their way to make heart attack prediction possible so that many lives can be saved.

Heart disease is term used for a range of different diseases affecting the heart. They are evenly treated by surgery and cardiovascular drugs.

Even though from 1995 to 2005 the fatality rate from heart disease declined 34 percent, there still is a lot of potential for it to fall further with the aid of technology. A contrivance is being tested to monitor the heart and raise a red flag in time so that early help can be sought.

The Life Saving Technology

Called the AngelMed Guardian system, the contrivance is in this area the size of a standard pacemaker is meant to be installed inside the skin close to the collarbone with a wire placed in the right chamber of the heart.

It comprises an outdoor telemetry contrivance and and a programmer meant to help the medics assess the heart signals. The job of the contrivance will be to monitor a person’s heart’s activity for signs that may point toward an impending heart attack.

As soon as the implanted diagnostic equipment finds that something’s gone amiss inside the heart, making use of Bluetooth technology and pagers, it will sound an alert to others so that quick medical attention can be provided to the uncomplaining. Also, the more disturbing or acute the symptoms of an upcoming heart attack, stronger the alert this contrivance transmits.

According to experts, the maximum destruction to the heart occurs during the first two hours after a coronary gets blocked during a heart attack. And most of the time patients take in this area three hours to recognize an oncoming heart attack, so help evenly reaches late to the sufferers. But, the unique ability of this contrivance is that it can recognize the warning signs and sound an alert hours before the attack really occurs thus helping doctors save lives.

Still undergoing Phase II clinical trials, if all goes well then it may really be able to predict heart attacks and save lives.

Fred is a journalist with 7 years of experience. Though, as a professional He’s reported on myriad topics, his pet is the medical industry. Off late he’s been effective on different web portals including Themedica.com. Themedica is a wide-ranging business-to-business (b2b) information portal and directory, featuring useful information for medical and health care industry professionals and businesses. It showcases assets such as trade shows, industry overviews, trade associations, global business listings, industry news, tenders, medical publications, informative articles and more that help professionals/businesses stay abreast with the latest and grow. He now blogs at Smiling Health.