Smartphone Now helping Epilepsy’s Patients

Epilepsy one of the most common mental problem has now attracted engineers of Smartphones towards itself. According to PCWorld the engineers and medical experts have now joined hands in Chicago to create a small prototype device with its own software that can monitor the brain waves of the person and send them from patient’s phone to the monitoring center for analysis.

Basically these people are aiming to build up a system that will be use to warn the epileptic patients of the seizures and thus the patients will be able to stop driving or doing any other activity on time.

Sam Cinquegrani, CEO of Wave Technology Group said that “Making an emergency call for a patient in need is one of those huge unprecedented wins from this technology”. This thing has been reported that the Wave software engineers are collaborating in this project with staffers from University of Chicago Hospital’s Pediatric Epilepsy Center.

It has been notified that almost 3 million people in US have epilepsy and some of the cases are quite severe that patients could have seizures a day. According to Cinquegrani “Some people are in danger of dying from it”.

A small prototype has been developed that includes a small 16 channels amplifier and it would be attached via sensors to the patient’s head. The Wave technology is really working for a very fantastic device and if it gets successful then it would be a great help for the epileptic patients.

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