My patient is incredibly sick; they have a tube keeping their airway open, sedated, ventilated, paralysed, needing multiple inotropes, severely septic needing dialysis, who needs to be proned, as they are needing 100% oxygen. I take a detailed handover, I… Read More ›
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A Smartwatch App To Help Stop His Dad’s Nightmares
Patrick was being consumed by nightmares. At night his dreams took him back to Fallujah, where he had served in the U.S. Army as a convoy commander. He sweated profusely and thrashed around in his sleep, sometimes violently. The nightmares… Read More ›
Hackers will target anything
The international vaccine supply chain has been targeted by cyber-espionage, according to IBM. The company says it tracked a campaign aimed at the delivery “cold chain” used to keep vaccines at the right temperature during transportation. The attackers’ identity is… Read More ›
Somryst: losing sleep? You will now.
With Somryst, you get a treatment for chronic insomnia that’s proven, recommended, and ready to go at the touch of a button. Get better sleep that lasts. Somryst is an app which is part of a wider service to help… Read More ›
The benefits of walking
According to the NHS, adults should be doing “at least 150 minutes of moderate intensity activity a week”. Walking counts towards this weekly exercise goal, and can help you build stamina and improve cardiovascular health – but you have to… Read More ›
400+ workouts on demand
PUREGYM just made 400 workouts available for free. This is a hugely impressive collection. Contactless access to the gym using your phoneLive attendance tracker to help plan your visits to the gymLoads of great classes and 400+ workouts on demandBuild… Read More ›
A device connected to my heart could save my life. It could also be hacked.
The pain was overwhelming, like being grilled alive. It ran out from a center point in my chest and flowed into every organ, every limb, into my fingers and toes. Later, waiting in the trauma section of the Mount Sinai… Read More ›
“Why is my mood all over the place at the moment?”
Unlike during the first lockdown, my mood has been all over the place. When I say I can’t predict what my mood is going to be like from one day to the next, I’m not being dramatic: one moment I’ll… Read More ›
Pre-symptomatic detection of COVID-19 from smartwatch data
The use of wearable devices has ample potential to mitigate the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. To date, the pandemic has infected tens of millions of individuals and caused over one million deaths worldwide. There is a substantial need for… Read More ›
Blood Oxygen randomness
I took my blood oxygen on the Apple Watch 3 times yesterday morning, one straight after the other and I was surprised to see utter randomness in the results. It made up my mind that the new blood oxygen feature… Read More ›
