Cardiovascular Health

ASSIST student, Braden Li, wearing the ASSIST ECG shirt to monitor and measure cardiac health.

Vigilant monitoring of cardiovascular health is a key use case for ASSIST technologies. Two specific conditions where vigilant monitoring may provide new insights are Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) and Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA). AFib affects 2.7 – 6.1 million people in the US. Symptoms may be intermittent, so detection requires continuous and accurate heartbeat interval timing. Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) often leads to sudden cardiac death (SCD), the largest cause of natural death in the US. Nearly 70% of incidents occur at home, and in half the cases, SCA occurs without any prior warning. [According to statistics from CDC and AHA reports]

ASSIST’s Wearable Self-Powered Adaptive Platform is our primary engineered system targeted towards vigilant cardiac monitoring, and the technologies embedded in that system offer key innovations that are poised to enable longer data collection as well as real-time event response:

Continuous and vigilant monitoring via self-powered operation

Accurate ECG monitoring in multiple form factors

Comfort and wearability through flexible platforms

Real time event detection through wireless transmission and data analysis