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New Medical Device Warns Patients Of Impending Heart Attack

Researchers have developed a new implantable medical device that alerts people when a heart attack is ‘around the corner’ . The device, created by Mary Carol Day and Christopher Young, is under clinical trials and uses both acoustic, vibration and visual signals to alert people regarding a possible heart attack. Currently, there are many implantable medical devices, such as left ventricular assist like device (LVAD), pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD s). Pacemakers and ICDs are used to treat arrhythmias, which means abnormal beats of heart. LVAD improves heart pump function.

Creating a device that alerts people about a heart attack patients may save lives. Even though most people know the symptoms of a myocardial infarction ( constrictive chest pain that does not respond to nitroglycerin, radiation possible in the left shoulder, back or jaw, sweating, anxiety), however many patients arrive at hospital too late sometimes. Moreover, there are situations in which the patient feels no pain and only symptom may be shortness of breath, as patients with diabetes. Arrival at the hospital as soon as possible after the onset of stroke is extremely important.


The new device, called AngelMed Guardian ®, is extremely useful for patients with cardiovascular disease and risk of myocardial infarction. Even if this kind of devices have been created so far, none have used the combination of acoustic, visual and vibration signals. In addition, it was found that the auditors based only on signals such as those implanted in the heart defibrillators may not always help because patients sometimes do not hear the alarm. Author Mary Carol Day says that this device has two major advantages. First, this device is implanted, that is it can not be forgotten. The second is that the device is also vibratile, warning patient of stroke whether he wears warm clothes or does not hear very well.

As a medical device, this is fixed in the upper left chest, and has the size of a pacemaker. In fact, the entire device is composed of two parts, one part which is implanted in the chest, and another part resembling a pager that alerts the patient when necessary. The device was designed to send two types of alarms, depending on the seriousness of the event. The first is an emergency alarm and warn the patient he can have a heart attack, and the second is a minor emergency and tells the patient to consult a physician within 24 hours. The results are promising so far. In studies of elderly patients, they could make the difference between the two types of emergencies. They also said they were satisfied with the quality warnings. The author added that in case the device is approved by FDA, it will probably need some changes in order to improve the quality of the interaction between the patient and the system.

POSTED IN: MEDICAL NEWS BY ELVIS AUGUSTIN COMMENT ON APRIL 16TH, 2012

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

My angel is on duty!!!

Today at approximately 10 am CDT my angel med device was switched to the "on" position. I am now being monitored for a possible impending heart attack or other significant heart changes by my angel med.
I was thoroughly explained how to use my EDT, external device, that will also blink and beep when my Angel Med goes off. There will be vibrations of the device as well as notification from my EDT. In order to turn off the alerts/vibrations, my EDT is held up to my Angel Med Device, and I push a button that will then "disarm" the notices. They will start again at different time intervals until I go to the ER or see my Angel Med Rep.

Oh, of course you want to know what I wore... an ethnic designed shirt that sparkles and black jeans and boots. I had colored my hair, painted my nails and sad to say, I had only 1, yes 1 earring with a bell on it..
"I will be there with bells on". Only made it with A bell.. not bells, but I guess that was cool. LOL.

I am very very happy to be participating in this trial and I do %100 recommend this to others!!! Even the sense that I know I don't need to question what the chest pain is...my angel med will alert me if its an impending heart attack. :)

If you are considering or have an Angel Med device...and have questions and/or comments that you are not comfortable posting here...feel free to send me an email. I would like to have other Angels stories here also. HUGS!   lastredo@att.net
Leesa
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