Many cardiac arrests occur without witnesses. Smart watches, cameras and voice assistants can play an essential role in autonomously activating rescue
About 30 percent of cardiac arrests, at least in Europe and Japan, occur without witnesses. Therefore a third of the people who suffer them die because, in fact, nobody notices it. A hard core difficult to scratch, despite all the attempts made so far. But the technological innovations already available today could change the outcome of the game. They are convinced of it Federico Semeraroelected president of the European resuscitation council (ERC), e Tommaso Scquizzato, of the Anesthesia and Resuscitation Research Center, San Raffaele Irccs hospital in Milan. In a letter published in the scientific journal Resuscitation (HERE the text) the two experts speculate that by 2050 (but perhaps even earlier, given the rapid development curve of innovation) land technologies will play a central role
in avoiding deaths of this nature.
Biometric signals
It is in particular about devices equipped with artificial intelligence capable of measuring biometric signals, including heart rate, electrocardiogram, respiratory rate, movement and activity. In the short run, they could be implemented in the chain of survival (the sequence of interventions that international guidelines have identified as crucial to ensure that a life is saved in the event of cardiac arrest, ed), write Scquizzato and Semeraro. Let’s start with wearable devices to automatically notify the emergency-urgency operations centers. Some smartwatches can detect falls and monitor heart rate. When the wearer falls and stands still, with or without detecting the absence of heart rate, the smartwatch automatically alerts services unless the wearer manually stops the process within seconds, they point out.
Identify agonal breathing
Secondly, the surveillance cameras: installed all over the world, they could be used to detect an illness autonomously. Net of the privacy issues to be resolved, The advanced techniques of video analysis in real time they allow you to detect a sudden fall and no movement. Therefore, it could detect cardiac arrest and activate an alert, they add. Third, the smart speakers, increasingly present in homes. Much of the witnessless heart failure occurs at home. Their use could allow you to identify the so-called agonal breath, common after cardiac arrest. Fourth, wearable devices (T-shirts, rings, bracelets and watches with sensors are already available) that continuously monitor biometric signals: they can alert patients, hours or minutes in advance, of an imminent life-threatening cardiac event. According to the authors of the publication, the glue to all these devices should be for a network that allows the activation of lay first responders (first responder) based on the distance in which they are from the place of illness. After all, the 205o almost around the corner.
January 28, 2022 (change February 18, 2022 | 16:49)
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