Implant Medic, Early Detection of Heart Attack!

Who want to be sick? Surely no one want it. Well, there's good news from scientists in Switzerland, which is known to have developed a tool called the Implantable Medic. Design is the smallest in the world, which contains some sensors, a long 14-millimeter chip that can measure molecules in the bloodstream of a living organism and transmit the results wirelessly to smartphones and tablets.

The researchers claim that they created the device can detect a heart attack a few hours earlier. Sandro Carrara (leader of the research team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne) says that the human body there is a molecule called troponin, which is released by the heart muscle is only three to four hours before a heart attack occurs. And this molecule will appear once the heart muscle is damaged. This is where the implants can detect Medic 3-4 hours before troponin released and began to spread throughout the body.

Medic Implantable Devices supported by a patch attached to the skin of the patient such as the nicotine patch, but it contains a battery instead of drugs. The chips transmit information via radio waves to patch the battery, which in turn transmits via Bluetooth to mobile applications. Carrara and his colleagues have been testing a prototype device to detect in mice 5 mice through the bloodstream. So far, the results are quite accurate and meet the achievement of early detection.

The Swiss researchers plan to present an exhibition Medic Implant Design and Technology in Europe on March 20, 2013. Carrara said the possibility of a new 4 years this device will reach commercial availability. By the time it arrived, the researchers believe mass production will allow them to produce the chip for less than 1 USD (Rp9 thousands) for each Implant Medic.