The technology to do this, which was developed by Helen Prance and her colleagues at the University of Sussex, is based on electrocardiography.A conventional electrocardiogram (ECG) is made by attaching electrodes to a person's body and recording signals that originate in the heart.
Flagging superstars, such as Diana Ross and Dionne Warwick, whose careers were in need of resuscitation, turned to the brothers Gibb to apply the ECG.
And as well as financing the Tricorder X Prize competition, Qualcomm's venture-capital arm has put money into several promising start-ups in the area, including San Francisco-based AliveCor, which has developed an iPhone case with two electrodes that can perform an electrocardiogram (ECG).
The flight attendants were uncertain about what to do and hooked the passenger up to a small device which took and transmitted vital signs, including his pulse, blood pressure and a picture of his hand, to a ground-based medical team.As the passenger's condition worsened, the device was also used to transmit an electrocardiographic (ECG) trace.
But the device that has captured the heart of the centre's boss, Ashish Shah, is much less fancy: a hand-held electrocardiogram (ECG) called the Mac 400.The device is a masterpiece of simplification.
The technology relies on the uniqueness of an individual's PQRST pattern: the five peaks and troughs that appear in an electrocardiograms (ECG).
Most firms were pleased by a plan the FDA published last year that said it would regulate only those m-health products that do the work of a traditional medical device an ECG, say, but not a pedometer.
AS ANYONE who has undergone an electrocardiograph (ECG) examination knows, it is an uncomfortable procedure that involves sticky electrodes which seem to want to rip out your body hair when they are removed.
In an electrocardiogram (ECG, or EKG), the beginning of ventricular systole is marked by the deflections of the QRS complex.
Echocardiograms may reveal accumulation of fluid in the pericardial sac, and electrocardiograms (ECG) show characteristic changes.
An ECG (electrocardiogram) scan 11 months earlier had shown Hamed's heart to be abnormal but neither the striker – 17 at the time – nor his parents were made aware of the problems and further checks were not sufficiently undertaken.
