Published: Dec 23, 2020
Cardiac arrhythmia relates to irregular rate or rhythm of heartbeat, and while most of these conditions are fairly harmless, certain cases can be utterly serious and even lead to death as the lack of blood flow can severely damage the heart, brain, and other organs. Thankfully, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) is strongly supporting researchers aiming to formulate a method to treat this disorder.
One of the recent and revolutionary development has been the advent of portable devices to identify arrhythmias on the run time. Conceptualized by the researchers at the Technological Institute of Morelia, the device not only detects cardiac arrhythmias on a real-time basis but also can be placed on the chest of the patients as well as made as a part of cloth such as shirt. The device only has a size of 20 by 20 centimeters and is capable of detecting eight different kinds of arrhythmias.