Pacemaker Supports Wi-Fi

Kasyjanski, a United States citizen (USA), for more than 20 years of his life hang on the pacemaker. But now, he became the first person in the U.S. that uses a pacemaker with wireless. With new equipment, doctors can continue to monitor the condition of women aged 61 years from long-distance via the internet.

As VIVAnews quotation from Dailytech, 11 August 2009, at the Hospital Kasyjanski St. Francis in Roslyn, New York, to perform routine tests, about 90 percent of the examination is conducted. That's because doctors have studied the condition of the patient information that is sent from the pacemaker Wi-Fi to the doctor via the internet. Kasyjanski said, the tool is to increase self-confidence and a memudahkannya life.

Dr. Steven Greenberg, the director of the Arrhythmia and Pacemaker Center Hospital St. Francis, said, new technology is helping to treat patients and it appears will be the new standard pacemaker.

Greenberg said, and monitor the server remotely communicate at least once a day to download all the relevant information and to warn doctors and patients on if something happens that is not normal.

"If something abnormal happens, we have a very complex system that will literally call the doctor responsible for the patient, at two morning if necessary," said Greenberg. Pacemaker St wireless production. Jude Medical Inc.. Surah itself approval authority on food and medicine in the FDA July.

In the various countries in the world, there are 3 million people with a pacemaker, and more than 600,000 people to install a pacemaker each year. Greenberg, said wireless technology would be far better known in patient care, and able to give time for the doctor to focus more on the patient's condition.

"In the future, the pacemaker of this kind may not only cater for patients with weak heart tap, but also to monitor high blood pressure, glucose, or heart failure," please Greenberg.

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