He has since been fitted with a cardio-defibrillator, a three-inch device that remains implanted in his heart to this day and which automatically administers an electroshock whenever his heart starts to beat dangerously slow or fast.
Recent studies have investigated the feasibility of closed-loop systems to automatically administer fluid during the perioperative period [47].
iPads were used to automatically administer the survey under each design scheme and collect the choice behavior data for public bike-and-ride.
The defibrillators, known as I.C.D.'s, automatically administer electrical jolts to hearts that have stopped beating or are beating chaotically, shocking them back to normal rhythms and pacing.
A pioneering project led by Boston University has developed an artificial pancreas that can constantly monitor blood sugar levels using a smartphone, and automatically administer either insulin to lower blood sugar or glucagon to raise it.
Since determination of trial eligibility will be automated using routinely collected cohort measures, all patients who are eligible for an active SPIN trial at a given point in time will automatically be administered the trial-specific measures.
Patients can return to a partially completed PROMs, and continue where they left off, within 24 h; after 24 h, measures are automatically re-administered from the start.
Patients can return to partially completed PROMs within 24 hours, and continue from where they left off; after this time, PROMs are automatically re-administered from the start.
All patients will receive pre-warmed (37 °C, 99 °F) iodinated contrast material (Ultravist; 300 mg I/ml, Bayer Healthcare, Berlin, Germany), administered automatically using a dual-head CT power injector (Stellant, Bayer).
All outcome measures were administered automatically online and all data held in the online database.
