Technology. It creates new inventions from robots to airplanes or glasses to putting a chip in someone's body to help monitor their blood and heart. This chip was invented but Swiss researchers that had an idea to help spread new inventions throughout healthcare. They created a tiny chip that will be placed under the patient's skin to analyze blood from the body and send test results instantaneous. New and improved technology is continuously being brought up or invented in the health care and this is another successful idea that will help the people around the world.
"It will allow direct and continuous monitoring based on a patient's individual tolerance, and not on age and weight charts or weekly blood tests," Giovanni de Micheli, the Swiss team leader. Another scientist, Sandro Carrara, said that the implanted chip could also detect a molecule that is tied in with a heart attack. It can detect it two to three hours before the attack could happen, Having enough time to get a ambulance there to monitor the patient.
Incredible is the only word that I could describe this new piece of technology. However its still on going experiments but hopefully it will be fully complete in the next four years.
To me this is a great idea that should be given to everyone. Its very convenient especially for those who live in the middle of nowhere and can't really be known if they had a heart attack or not. In New Mexico there are a huge amount of land, and because of that everyone lives so far from each other. The cities are at least a two hour drive from where most Native Americans live.
There is a place in New Mexico called Burnham. Its pronounced as Burn- ums. There is where a man lived in the middle of nowhere without and electricity or plumbing. All he had was his house and his farm. So, the ideas of health care was unreachable for him, unless someone took the time to drive all the way to see him but there is that "What if.." factor that if he were to have a medical problem or even a heart attack, how would he get the help that he needs if he is too far and don't have the transportation to get his to the hospital. That's what most elderly Native Americans are suffering from to this day.
This new implant could help the elderly with getting diagnose quickly and getting the medical help needed faster before something more serious happens to them in the middle of nowhere.
Interesting and important use of technology.
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