Newcardio, Inc. (NWCI)

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CardioBip™ -

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About 70 million Americans have some form of chronic cardiovascular disease. Of those, about 14M have documented coronary artery disease (CAD), with almost one million new cases diagnosed each year. Rapid response to an episode of arrhythmia or ischemia (heart attack) is critical to survival. In a moment of a heart attack, the survival of the patient depends radically on obtaining urgent medical care, essentially based on an ECG recording. Delays in accurate diagnosis are not only costly, but can be fatal. Earlier and more accurate diagnosis allows treatment within the first two hours (“golden hours”) when it is known to be most beneficial.

Research has shown that about 70% of the delay between the onset of the chest pain associated with a heart attack (myocardial infarction) and the intervention is attributed to the patient’s hesitation in seeking medical help. Many factors contribute to this delay, however the key is failure of the patient to recognize the seriousness of the symptoms and the need to immediately go to, an often overcrowded, emergency room. Thus a pocket size ECG machine that would be always with the patient, or high risk person, is needed. Instant wireless transmission of the ECG recording is necessary to dramatically shorten the time between the onset of symptoms and the intervention.

The available pocket-size ECG machines suffer from at least one of two drawbacks. They are either easy to use, but offer only a couple of channels, which reduces them to arrhythmia monitors, or they have leads (wires) that typically require a trained person (nurse) to attach them to the patient’s body.

CardioBip™ Hand Held Device

CardioBip™ is a unique, hand held device that offers the solution to the problem of urgent ECG telemonitoring, capable of providing truly comprehensive and accurate ECG data that is being transmitted wirelessly. CardioBip™ is unique due to its extreme ease of use, as it employs only three integrated electrodes, combined with the ability to generate a standard 12 lead ECG recording. The absence of any cables and integrated nature of its electrodes offers the potential for an integration with popular hand held PDA platforms.
Features

* CardioBip™ is a cordless pocket device not requiring patient connection by leadwires.
* Recordings are simply made by holding the instrument against the patient’s chest, similar to single lead devices.
* The CardioBip™ device has 3 integrated leads that make contact with the patient’s chest.
* The unique data collected by CardioBip™ provides sufficient information to allow accurate, immediate reconstruction of a complete 12-lead ECG from a calibrated, patient-specific transformation matrix.
* The CardioBip-transmitted data may also be analyzed with the Visual3Dx array of 3-D analytical tools.

These features enable more accurate and timely diagnoses of acute cardiac events, and facilitate immediate intervention in life-threatening situations – even when the patient is far removed from a medical care center.


CardioBip™ Hand Held Device