ViScope: To sense approaching heart attacks

Australia’s HD Medical Group has introduced an innovative device that uses mechanical data (chiefly sound) to foretell approaching heart attacks. According to the HD Medical Group Ltd, the wireless device called ViScope that detects heart noises can signal an impending heart attack. Almost 500 patients in a clinical trial at Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital are reported to be examined via this device for its initial trial whereas the results of this trial will be unveiled sometimes at the end of this year with an application to get green flag from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration possibly in early 2008. By explaining the functioning of this life saving device company’s managing director Jay Jethwa says that this life saving device functions by sending and receiving low-voltage radio waves to and from the heart, in the same way as fishermen uses sonar waves to locate fish. It is also worth mentioning that this life saving device is an amalgamation of the company’s proprietary ViScope instrument and technology licensed from Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization in December last year. Via: Medgadget