Thanks Abbas: I just viewed this video and it is the first invention which is relevant to my field. After viewing it one immediately says: "why didn't I think of it!" But then as you know I have many ideas. To get it from an idea to actually be used is a long road. The idea, drawings, patent protection, prototype, animal experiments, human trials from Phase I to III and then the FDA approval. I have had two ideas, which I have patented and for one I have a prototype made. It has already cost a fortune. Now unless I can get a Venture capitalist it will be hard to get to the next stage to have working models and try them in animals. I am working on it and it is still many years from before going to the FDA.
The technology Dr Fischell has used to detect heart attacks exists now and is incorporated in pacemakers, but not in others who might be at risk of having a heart attack. The beauty of his idea and work is that he took two existing technologies and developed a whole system of security alert to get the patient to the ER in time so he can get the treatment. It is ingenuous and credit to him for developing it. It is pacemaker technology combined with security alarm system technology which sounds an alarm simultaneously at home and the Police station who can then dispatch a police car. And I have had a first hand experience with this also, when a burglar broke into my house (through the one door for which I had forgotten to turn the alarm on) and into my bedroom, I pushed the panic button and Police was there in minutes. The burglar ran away.
Thanks for posting it.
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Thanks Abbas: I just viewed this video and it is the first invention which is relevant to my field. After viewing it one immediately says: "why didn't I think of it!" But then as you know I have many ideas. To get it from an idea to actually be used is a long road. The idea, drawings, patent protection, prototype, animal experiments, human trials from Phase I to III and then the FDA approval. I have had two ideas, which I have patented and for one I have a prototype made. It has already cost a fortune. Now unless I can get a Venture capitalist it will be hard to get to the next stage to have working models and try them in animals. I am working on it and it is still many years from before going to the FDA.
The technology Dr Fischell has used to detect heart attacks exists now and is incorporated in pacemakers, but not in others who might be at risk of having a heart attack. The beauty of his idea and work is that he took two existing technologies and developed a whole system of security alert to get the patient to the ER in time so he can get the treatment. It is ingenuous and credit to him for developing it. It is pacemaker technology combined with security alarm system technology which sounds an alarm simultaneously at home and the Police station who can then dispatch a police car. And I have had a first hand experience with this also, when a burglar broke into my house (through the one door for which I had forgotten to turn the alarm on) and into my bedroom, I pushed the panic button and Police was there in minutes. The burglar ran away.
Thanks for posting it.
Posted by: Tasnim | Nov 28, 2008 11:29:00 AM
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