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Unlikely to bleed to death while conscious. However, if the impact causes unconsciousness (highly likely from head trauma), a bleed-at-not-otherwise-concerning
by rdl 12y ago
Unlikely to bleed to death while conscious. However, if the impact causes unconsciousness (highly likely from head trauma), a bleed-at-not-otherwise-concerning rate is going to be a real problem.
Humans need watchdog processors. Even if we have to build them and add them. Something which watched your vitals in the background and alarmed when they became critical would be great.
"Heart attack" was probably someone extrapolating from "middle aged guy dies during exercise". Unless you actually had M.E. information beyond that, the natural assumption would be heart attack, and you'd be right 90% of the time.
- torsday 12y agoThis is why I'm excited about the development of the Apple watch and similar ubiquitous metrics. From the heart rate alone you could determine many significant cardiac events, e.g. A-fib, PSVT, heart blocks...
- PhantomGremlin 12y agoUnfortunately the FDA is very reluctant to allow use of features like that. E.g. the watch already has the hardware to be a pulse oximeter, but that's not one of the advertised features.
- rdl 12y agoYeah -- pervasive monitoring gives you three awesome things: 1) Per-user baselines (e.g. my natural temperature is 36C) in a non-clinical environment (to avoid "white coat" syndrome; from working in a hospital, my BP spikes to 140/90 when I'm around incompetent providers, and is 120/80 normally) 2) Great longitudinal measurements to see changes over time 3) Detecting emergencies instantly