L’sudden cardiac arrest to this day it marks the cessation of life for millions of people around the world. Let’s talk about SCDi.e. technically defined as “sudden cardiac death”, to indicate the lack of regular cardiac function. It affects subjects in various age groups, sometimes even sports people who have had no inkling of a heart failure in progress.
L’heart attack sudden generally leads the subject to death within an hour of the first signs. A possible warning could alert a person, who by acting promptly could save their life from a SCD.
Certainly, older people, those who suffer from other diseases such as diabetes or do not lead a healthy lifestyle or smoke, are usually the most at risk. Those who lead a regular life, are young and eat healthily, and practice physical activity regularly, are less likely to suffer from a sudden heart attack.
When it happens, sometimes it happens because there were previous situations on the heart function which had not been detected. This is a cause of sudden death, which is difficult to explain in the absence of elements capable of alerting the subject of the onset of a sudden heart attack.
The algorithm that saves your life: here’s how
Researchers are working on a new technique, which is based on a algorithmcould alert the individual of a imminent sudden heart attack. A smartwatch warning in the near future could save the lives of thousands of people.
The Finnish research group from the University of Tampere created this algorithm which is based on a specific metric called detrended fluctuation analysisidentified with the acronym DFA2 a1. This, according to the results of the research, is able to understand if there are changes in the variability of heart rate and, if so, notify the person of the imminent risk.
This alarm message could arrive thanks to the electronic and digital devices that almost all of us use, it would be enough to additional function of the smartwatch to be able to save their lives, asking for help with the arrival of rescuers who are able to precede and avoid the disastrous event.
