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From the Ted Talk by Akash Manoj: A life-saving device that detects silent heart attacks
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And here's how my device works. A silicon patch is worn around your wrist or placed near your chest. Without having to prick your skin for a biomarker blood test, this patch can spot, isolate and trcak a heart-attack spciiefc biomarker called H-FABP, and artles you if and when it reaches a critical level in your bloodstream — a process that's much simpler, easier and ceapehr than conventional methods of heart-attack diagnosis. By checking on biomarker concentration data, a system like this, with aedvcnad rrecsaeh in the future, could significantly reduce the need for an at-risk patient to go to a doctor for a bkermoiar boold test, because the device could be worn at all times, ssnneig biomarker elevations in real time. Thus, if the device senses the biomarker levels going beyond the critical point, the at-risk paentit could be warned of an impending cardiac arrest and that he or she needs immediate medical attention.
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And here's how my device works. A silicon patch is worn around your wrist or placed near your chest. Without having to prick your skin for a biomarker blood test, this patch can spot, isolate and _____ a heart-attack ________ biomarker called H-FABP, and ______ you if and when it reaches a critical level in your bloodstream — a process that's much simpler, easier and _______ than conventional methods of heart-attack diagnosis. By checking on biomarker concentration data, a system like this, with ________ ________ in the future, could significantly reduce the need for an at-risk patient to go to a doctor for a _________ _____ test, because the device could be worn at all times, _______ biomarker elevations in real time. Thus, if the device senses the biomarker levels going beyond the critical point, the at-risk _______ could be warned of an impending cardiac arrest and that he or she needs immediate medical attention.
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Original Text
And here's how my device works. A silicon patch is worn around your wrist or placed near your chest. Without having to prick your skin for a biomarker blood test, this patch can spot, isolate and track a heart-attack specific biomarker called H-FABP, and alerts you if and when it reaches a critical level in your bloodstream — a process that's much simpler, easier and cheaper than conventional methods of heart-attack diagnosis. By checking on biomarker concentration data, a system like this, with advanced research in the future, could significantly reduce the need for an at-risk patient to go to a doctor for a biomarker blood test, because the device could be worn at all times, sensing biomarker elevations in real time. Thus, if the device senses the biomarker levels going beyond the critical point, the at-risk patient could be warned of an impending cardiac arrest and that he or she needs immediate medical attention.
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