3D Print Heart Rate Alarm: Patient's "bodyguard"

Nowadays, 3D bio-printing has become a "single weapon" in the medical field. One successful case shows everyone's maturity of 3D printing technology . At the same time, it has also inspired more and more makers to start using 3D printers to send gospel to patients.

Frank Nguyen is now 17 years old, but since the sixth grade, he is worried about his mother's health every day. Over the years, Nguyen has been anxiously and helplessly watching his mother, Lan Nguyen, slowly losing sight in one eye, while the other eye's vision has also declined and began to be found to have hearing problems. Now, Lan's health is getting worse. She is often troubled by heart problems such as dizziness, thyroid problems and dangerous heart rates.

“My mother started to get really sick,” Nguyen said. “I’m afraid she will have problems, I don’t know how to deal with them.”

But recently, Nguyen found an inspiration for his mother during a summer program at Ryerson University, and eventually 3D printed a prototype of a heart rate alarm monitoring device that he hoped would not only help his mother, but also Can help people with similar problems around the world.

The current prototype of this device is a bit large and cumbersome, but it does more. The device can be placed on the user's wrist and track the patient's heart rate with a light and a sensor. Once the patient is found to have a heart attack, a text message is sent to the caregiver or emergency personnel.

The prototype of Nguyen's device is 3D printed, which includes two microcontrollers, an 8G capacity storage unit, and a short message transmission system - it mainly uses cellular network and GPS functions, and all of this can be done by two. Charged lithium-ion battery to drive.

When the user wears this monitoring device, there will be a small green light flashing directly below the device. When the flashing light of the green light is reflected back to a sensor on the wristband, a special algorithm determines the heart rate of the patient based on changes in the voltage received on the sensor. The monitor stores heartbeat data at different times, and these results can be read by a memory card built into the device.

Nguyen said that in fact the device can also call the 911 Emergency Center via a virtual network. When the monitor detects that the user's heart rate changes and the heart rate value is outside the normal range, the device will automatically send a text message, which will transmit the key information to the emergency personnel in real time, such as the patient's age, medical history, and device location. Location and so on.

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