Digital Tool for Prevention, Identification and Emergency Handling of Heart Attacks

Abstract

Heart attack is one of the most frequent causes of death in adults. The majority of heart attacks lead to death before any treatment is given to patients. The conventional mode of healthcare is passive, whereby patients themselves call the healthcare services requesting assistance. Consequently, if they are unconscious when heart failure occurs, they normally fail to call the service. To prevent patients from further harm and save their lives, the early and on-time diagnosis important. This paper presents an innovative web and mobile solution designed using it as Internet of Things (IoT) technology and Machine learning concepts to effectively manage heart patients, the ‘CARDIIAC’ system. This system can predict potential heart attack based on a set of identified risk factors. The system also can identify an actual heart attack using the readings from a wearable IoT device and notify the patient. The system is also equipped with emergency event coordination functionalities. Therefore, ‘CARDIIAC’ provides a holistic care for heart patients by effectively monitoring and managing emergencies related to heart diseases. This would be a socially important system to reduce the number of heart patients who die due to the inability to get immediate treatment.