COPCAR (CONTROL OF HIGH-RISK CHRONIC PATIENTS)

COPCAR is a project which started in 2007, a date when the first system design appeared in the register of the Association of Industrial Engineers. With the integration of different technologies, it designed a system for the Control of High-Risk Chronic Patients.

130,000 deaths from cardiovascular diseases happen in Spain every year, of which 40,000 are from ischemic heart diseases.

- The probability to survive a heart attack after the appearance of the first symptoms is higher than when we call an ambulance even if it takes for us to get to hospital.

- The average time which it takes for us to stabilize an ill person who suffers an AMI (Acute Myocardial Infarction) is 165 minutes, according to the MIDA (Myocardium Infarction Delay Analysis) register.

- The average time which it takes for a patient to ask for help is 135 minutes.

- The average time which it takes for a patient to ask for help is when he/she is a chronic ill person and identifies his/her symptoms well is never less than 60 minutes.

Our system WHICH INTEGRATES WITH THE 112 EMERGENCY PLATFORM reduces that time interval up to a 70%. The patient wears a T-shirt, bib or band which communicates via Bluetooth with a mobile terminal which processes data and identifies high-risk events on the basis of algorithms defined by the specialist which generates at the same time in an automated way and without intervention of the patient a warning to 112 where emergency protocols are activated immediately.

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