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Updated:05/26/2022 8:00 p.m.
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Last summer, researchers at Northwestern University (USA) presented the first disposable pacemaker in history: a fully implantable wireless device that dissolves in the body when it is no longer needed.
Now, they present a new intelligent version that is integrated into a coordinated network of four sensors and soft, flexible, wireless and portable control units, located in the upper part of the body. These sensors communicate with each other to continuously monitor the different physiological functions of the body: body temperature, oxygen levels, breathing, muscle tone, physical activity and electrical activity of the heart.
The system also uses algorithms to analyze this activity in order to autonomously detect abnormal heart rhythms and decide when to pace the heart and at what rate.