Seems like a lot to wear this all the time — but also I’m not familiar with the risk factor.
- How much quicker is this at detecting a stroke versus someone simply observing it happening with a naked eye?
Like how much time does this save over simply seeing physical symptoms with your naked eye or feeling the symptoms for yourself? 1 second, 1 hour, 5 hours, days?
1) For the US-> There are approximately 1 million strokes every year. Stroke is the #1 cause of disability
2) Good point. We are starting with a system that can be work at night time + whenever the users feel most vulnerable. There are many patients who who through periods of increased risk (i.e. after a 1st stroke, after a transient ischemic attack).
3)Stroke recognition is one of the biggest pain points in bringing stroke victims to treatment. Strokes that happen during sleep (commonly referred to also as wake up strokes) are practically impossible to detect based on symptoms. There is not pain associated with it (like in a heart attack).
4) We have heard crazy stories from patients and caregivers about how different their outcome would have been had they been alerted a couple of hours earlier. Our vision is to help everyone go to the hospital in under 1h. Our first target is to enable everyone to go to the hospital within 4h which is currently the time window for tpa d (clot busting medication). What's the current status? -> only 4% nationwide get tpa because they arrive too late.
If you know when the stroke started and its more than 5h past that -> no tpa.
If you don't know when the stroke started -> no tpa.
- How common are strokes generally?
Seems like a lot to wear this all the time — but also I’m not familiar with the risk factor.
- How much quicker is this at detecting a stroke versus someone simply observing it happening with a naked eye?
Like how much time does this save over simply seeing physical symptoms with your naked eye or feeling the symptoms for yourself? 1 second, 1 hour, 5 hours, days?