Heart Attack Detection with Chip

Scientists have developed a blood test which is so small tools that is called chip. It have a length of 1.4 centimeters chip which is placed in the human skin. The chip can transmit the record via a smart phone or tablet wirelessly, and it is able to detect a heart attack a few hours earlier. The working principle of monitoring the use of molecules associated with heart muscle that is called Iron IC system.

In the system is released by the heart muscle three or four hours before the arrival of a heart attack, when the heart muscle begins to break down, the molecule which in the system is called troponin. So the system can detect the molecules for three or four hours before the fatal attack occurred that statement was explained by Sandro Carrara, whose one of the team leaders at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).

The device is supported by five sensors that can also analyze the five proteins and organic acids simultaneously.The chip contains a radio transmitter component. Furthermore, the transmitter sends the information via radio waves through a battery in the form of small pieces. Chip relies on Bluetooth connectivity, which in turn transmits the data to the mobile application as well as a doctor.

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Previously, The chip have been testing this prototype in mice to detect five different blood substances. So far, the results are the same as the reliability of the traditional blood test, which involves drawing blood from the patient and then analyzed with separate laboratory equipment.

In order to capture information about a patient's blood, including glucose and lactate levels of information, each of the five sensor chips coated with enzymes, making limits what can be tested.

The researchers plan to present their findings at conferences Design, Automate and Test Europe tomorrow, and if we want use it, we should wait at least four years before the device is released commercially.

From all of the information above, the writer find it from viva news, March 20, 2013.