If a monitoring device could alert doctors that blood flow to the brain had declined, they could quickly adjust blood pressure, restoring adequate flow and potentially avoid a stroke.
With the battery monitor, Friday could alert a user when the phone is low on juice and there's a charger nearby, while the dialer app would show not recent calls or favorites, but those numbers you're most likely to call, based on previous behavior and your current context.
While FHR monitoring could potentially alert the anesthesiologists to the development of fetal hypoxia, allowing restoration of blood pressure or anesthesia depth, FHR monitoring during non-obstetric surgery remains controversial.
Monitoring renal cell physiologic function for AKS could alert critical care professionals to flawed goals of hemodynamic management.
However, if patients could monitor their own joints for swelling, they could alert their rheumatologist for an immediate clinic appointment.
But he said the information could alert potential suspects that the police were monitoring them, interfering with future prosecutions.
The presence of inhomogeneous perfusion could alert clinicians early to consider a more intensive monitoring of left ventricular function and potential additional treatments in order to prevent a further progression of microvasculopathy and the development of progressive allograft failure.
Wearables can be geared more to people at risk of falling instead of those wanting to track how far they run, and they could alert family members to changes in gait and monitor other vital signs for trouble.
When pressed, he said that the best defense hinged on being able to monitor incoming traffic to the United States through private "Internet service providers," which could alert the government, in the milliseconds that electronic messages move, about potentially dangerous attacks.
He could send money; he could alert journalists and politicians.
