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Researchers Launch Wearable Device for Rapid Heart Attack Detection

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New Artificial Intelligence System to Detect Heart Attacks Much Earlier

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The Vital Role of IoT in Heart Attack Detection and Heart Rate Monitoring

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the leading cause of death among men and women is heart disease, accounting for 630,000 deaths in the United States alone each year. Unfortunately, this isn’t unique to the United States, with heart disease killing more than 1,500,000 Chinese each year, according to the International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems.

One of the main reasons why so many individuals die from heart attacks is because there is a short window of time between when the symptoms begin and when the individual can make it to a hospital. Since symptoms vary from one individual to the next, many are unaware of the early warning signs and delay seeking medical attention. In the few hours that are critical after a heart attack, if the individual cannot receive medical attention, the dying heart muscle will be permanently damaged due to a lack of oxygen

To overcome these delays, engineers are working on developing an IoT enabled heart attack detection system and heart rate monitor that will help alert individuals to seek out medical attention before an attack. The device is wearable and will continuously monitor the individual’s electrocardiogram (electrical activity of the heart) and notify them if there are elevated levels that would lead to myocardial infarction. The device will tell the user the exact location of the event, and it will be connected to the cloud to alert others via Wi-Fi.

How Does the Proposed IoT Solution Work?

The proposed system will be able to detect a heart attack by observing the user’s heart rate through an Internet of Things architecture.

The general architecture of most IoT solutions can be divided into three primary layers; the sensing layer, the transport layer, and the application layer. The sensing layer is what allows the patient’s vitals to be read, while the transport layer provides data transmission through transit points, and the application layer is installed at the end of the device. In this particular IoT solution, a pulse sensor, Arduino board, and Wi-Fi module are being used to create the system. The system’s architecture works as follows.

Once the system is in place and set up, the individual can set up a start point. This allows the individual to monitor their heartbeat and compare it to the set point. Once these limits are set, the system will monitor the heart rate of the individual continuously.

The pulse sensor is connected to an Arduino Uno microcontroller board, which has 14 digital input and output pins on it, 6 of which can be used to monitor PWM outputs.

The RX and TX pins on the board are used for communication between the Arduino board and the Wi-Fi module, LCD screen, and heart rate application. The Arduino microcontroller board has an operating voltage of 5-volts and uses 32KB of flash memory for code storage.

The pulse sensor being used is a “plug and play” heart rate sensor, which allows the individual to simply place their finger on it to take a reading. The sensor picks up the movement of blood through the finger and gives a numerical output of the heartbeat.

Once the pulse sensor crosses the set limit, the system will send out an alert about the heart rate to the individual. The system also allows you to set it to alert for low heartbeats.

What does Architecture Look Like?

At the beginning of the system, you have the pulse sensor which detects the heartbeat signal. The heartbeat signal is attached to the Arduino Uno microcontroller board. The Arduino Uno board is connected to the Wi-Fi module and the LCD screen. The Wi-Fi module is connected to the heart rate application, allowing for the data to be transported over the internet to individuals like caregivers and doctors.

How Are These IoT Solutions Being Used in HealthTech?

The heart attack detection and heart rate monitor aren’t the only use case of how IoT solutions are vital in our healthcare system. There are other applications of similar IoT enabled devices that can monitor heart disease, help the recovery process after a stroke, and even help heart condition patients live a normal life with IoT enabled pacemakers.

Heart Disease Monitoring:

Doctors can now keep track of a patient’s condition without needing them to come into the office as IoT solutions have been developed to measure blood sugar levels, cholesterol levels, and blood pressure levels. This information can be received in real-time through a heart disease monitoring device that transmits the data through the internet.

Stroke Recovery:

Wearable sensors have been developed to monitor an individual’s rehabilitation process. In previous iterations, patients would be bed-ridden and monitored with dozens of wires for the time that recovery was required. Now, the data can be systematized through a flexible and wearable sensor application that can be set to notify when goals are met, track recovery progress metrics and create alerts about key recovery indicators.

IoT Pacemakers:

A pacemaker is a small device that is placed in one’s chest to help control your heartbeat. It is used to help your heartbeat at regular intervals if you have an irregular heartbeat. An IoT enabled pacemaker could provide breakthrough information about a patient’s exact condition as real-time results can be transmitted to doctors and caregivers.

You can read also – “Medcheck” – An IoT based Healthcare Diagnostic Solution

What Are the Benefits of IoT in Healthcare?

Real-time monitoring can save lives during a medical emergency like heart failure, asthma attacks, and diabetic episodes (remote medical assistance).

IoT devices can be continuously connected and are an affordable solution for those who want to cut down on unnecessary doctor visits.

IoT devices can be used for research purposes since they collect a massive amount of data about an individual. This can speed up the rate at which cures, and better treatments can be found.

While there have been numerous heart attack detection methods introduced into our healthcare systems, most are time-consuming to create and expensive to manufacture. A proposed technique using an Arduino Uno microcontroller board is a more modern take that can be easy to manufacture and deploy.

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Wearable Technology For Heart: Detecting and Preventing Heart Conditions

One of the most important things in life is our health. Without proper health, your life will be limited and you won’t be able to do the things that you enjoy doing. This is especially true when it comes to heart problems where they cause a lot of damage not only to our overall health but also quality of our life. Heart conditions have been very common in today’s society and for many reasons: improper diet, lack of exercise, and stress. All of these things contribute to cardiovascular issues that are very often irreversible. It is very important to detect and prevent these types of health problems before they do a major damage to our overall health and quality of life. Fortunately enough, improvements in technology give us a lot of benefits that were impossible to achieve before. Today, there are many devices that can monitor your overall health in order to prevent certain health conditions. Few of these devices are considered to be a part of wearable technology that serves the purpose to monitor your body and prevent any sort of health issue that you might be developing. These type of devices are very useful as a preventive measures to heart related problems. That being said, let’s take a look at the role wearable technology plays on detecting and preventing heart conditions:

Introducing Pre-Emptive Medicine Up to right now, majority of diseases were treated once they became serious enough to cause symptoms. In many cases once symptoms are developed it is too late or a lot of serious damage has been already done to body. Medical advances are pushing us towards new type of medicine called pre-emptive. Instead of waiting for visible symptoms to start the treatment, medical technology is being developed that detects the disease before it becomes a big problem. Detection of a health condition at the early stages, before any symptoms are present, is what many devices are build for. This is especially crucial with heart disease, where early detection can save millions of lives and prevent any serious damage. It is not surprising that the popularity of these type of devices is projected to grow at a rapid rate in the next few years. Especially when, health market is very lucrative and constitutes as much as 10% of the economy of developed countries.

Wearable Technology For Heart Attack Detection

Heart bracelets for early detection of heart attack.

Up to now wearable devices were used to count number of steps you are taking and amount of calories you are burning, but things are advancing at a rapid rate. There are multiple of products that are being developed to help detect and prevent heart disease. One of them are heart bracelets with the purpose of monitoring heart rate for any anomalies. Since four minutes after cardiac arrest is crucial to saving the live of a person, anything over that decreases the chances of survival and increases possibility of having long term negative effects. If cardiovascular abnormalities are detected, device sends warning messages to control monitor and the nearest hospital for help. The device can be used in professional sports and in military where people are under a lot of stress and demanding physical conditions.

In addition to heart bracelets, Google is in the process of developing cancer and heart attack detecting pill. The pill is said to be 10,000 smaller than width of a hair and contains antibodies that detect the presence of “biomarker” molecules. As soon as pill is swallowed by the person, it will be able to find molecules in the body that indicate development of disease such as that of heart attack. There is still a lot of testing that needs to be done in order to make sure that the pill won’t cause any health complications, but if everything goes well it can mean millions of saved lives.

Final Words Development of wearable technology to detect early signs of disease is projected to grow at a rapid rate. The need for technology to assist in medical fields is crucial in order to prevent a lot of deadly diseases. Although there are a lot of devices that perform basic monitoring functions, the life changing wearable technology is under the development as of now.