It is better to regularly monitor and treat the known risk factors for heart disease: smoking, high blood sugar, blood lipids, hypertension, overweight, and to encourage regular physical activity, rather than a sticker that is unclear about how it works, even if it fulfilled the company's promise , it is better not to need it, says Prof. Shmuel Gottlieb, head of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit of the Cardiology Association, director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit in visiting patients, Jerusalem following the Life-Kipper affair
At the beginning of the week, the name of an Israeli company that no one had ever heard of, SafeSky Software, which is owned and managed by an Israeli, was revealed to the world, which announced a huge deal, in which it sold 37% of its subsidiary LifeKeeper to the British-Taiwanese technology company MSI Micro Star International)) for $370 million. The deal reflects a value of one billion dollars for Life-Keeper. MSI and the company's Israeli owners plan to issue it now on the Chicago Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The owner and chairman of Safe-Sky is Dr. Amos Buchnik, who owns 50% of it. Another 50% is held by Eric Klein.
But just one day later, doubts began to appear. Firstly, the British company denied any connection, and secondly - the owner of the Internet domain from which the British emails came was Klein. However, the company has not taken down its website which remains active, and continues to insist that it is a real product and a real deal.
Company website Life keepers The product is described as follows: "We developed a new technology and an exciting innovative idea to produce Life Keeper. The new device allows us to save the lives of millions of people and more importantly, the life of someone dear to you. "
"In principle, the system is very simple. The Life Keeper system monitors the heartbeat current and records critical or sudden changes if they are beyond the permissible level. The device transmits the data to a medical center to alert it. It is known that in the case of medical intervention within 10-15 minutes after the initial symptoms of a heart attack, there is a chance to save the patient."
We asked to find out with experts in cardiology what this is all about, and it is clear that those who may benefit from the action of such a sticker, if it does perform what its developers promise, will be managers of cardiac intensive care departments in hospitals. We contacted Prof. Shmuel Gottlieb, head of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit of the Cardiology Association and director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit during a patient visit, who said that he was unable to identify from the details on the website, exactly which indicators the system monitors and what it is based on, and it was not written anywhere who the scientists were that participated in the development the system and which studies they relied on. In any case, they did not ask for approval from the FDA, which is the most important approval for anyone who develops drugs and medical devices.
What are the early signs of a heart attack?
Prof. Gottlieb responds to the question of the science website: "I can only say that we know the signs that accompany a heart attack: a general bad feeling, pain or pressure in the chest radiating to the left side or to the chin, sweating, sometimes feeling suffocated or short of breath, nausea and vomiting. There are patients who develop angina on exertion, or short chest pain in the days before the heart attack. But most heart attacks happen suddenly, without any warning signs, due to a rupture of a sclerotic plaque in the coronary artery that occurs suddenly without any warning sign.
In any case, when these symptoms appear it is important to recognize the event as early as possible, we recommend ordering an intensive care vehicle to begin immediate treatment already at home and on the way to the hospital. Unfortunately, only about 50% of patients do this, and many prefer to come to the hospital in their own car. "
How can heart attacks be prevented?
"Preliminary activities can be carried out through prevention. The known risk factors that increase the risk of heart disease must be treated: smoking, diabetes, blood pressure, bad cholesterol, blood lipids, and excess weight. High-risk patients with multiple risk factors and a family history of heart disease should be identified. Today, these risk factors can be treated with proper training, diet, regular exercise and medication. And if a heart attack does occur, it is important to recognize the accompanying signs early, and to arrive at the hospital as early as possible through evacuation by an intensive care vehicle, while monitoring pulse, blood pressure and other vital signs."
"When you arrive at the hospital, we take care of opening the artery quickly using a balloon and a stent. The faster the patient reaches the hospital, the less damage to the heart muscle as a result of the attack. We use drugs that have been proven in controlled international studies to be effective in reducing mortality from heart attacks, starting with old drugs such as aspirin, Fluvix and new drugs that are candidates for entering the drug basket, as well as new technologies in the catheterization room. Of course, after the heart attack, it is very important to continue close follow-up by a cardiologist to note that Israeli cardiology plays a very important part in international clinical studies in the field of heart and vascular diseases."
According to Prof. Gottlieb, the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and the Cardiology Association conducts every two years the acute coronary syndrome - Israeli survey - ACSIS, which monitors a number of parameters such as the severity of the attacks, the length of hospitalization and the treatments that the patients receive during the heart attack, etc. within the treatment units Heart intensive care unit and the cardiology departments in Israel. as per The last survey published in April this year, there is a downward trend in the rate of heart attacks in Israel, and the decrease in mortality as a result of the attack continues, which, by the way, is one of the lowest in the world. And this is thanks to preliminary activities of prevention on the one hand, and on the other hand due to the treatment in the hospitals. "We must continue these improvements and not rely on stickers for which the scientific background behind them is unknown."
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Adam builds:
I am not preaching the ban on smoking in a private setting, but I want to point out a mistake in the consideration you presented.
Let's start with the fact that drug consumption is actually prohibited even in a private setting - not because of the direct harm to the public but because of potential indirect harm.
This reason also applies to regular smoking because the smoker is more likely to become a burden on the public.
This is even before we talk about the toxic substance he emits into the atmosphere even when he is alone and the difficulty of defining when it bothers others and when it doesn't (I, for example, can't sleep in a hotel in a room we used to stay in before, and in many cases smoking in one of the adjacent rooms also bothers me. I suppose that a phenomenon Similar also exists in apartment buildings).
The problem of indirect damage can be solved, in the case of smoking, by appropriate taxation that will finance the public carrying the burden.
The second problem is more difficult to solve.
Smoking is not outlawed because smoking in a non-public place does not harm the public.
Freedom, in one of its definitions, is the permission to do whatever comes to mind as long as it does not harm others.
I don't smoke and hate cigarettes, but to enforce such a law is already a dictatorship.
Omer:
You don't make a decree that the public can't stand...
And see the dry period in the USA and what it caused there.
Even in Singapore I think it is legal to smoke in non-public places, and they are another country that is actually able to enforce such a law.
Not every matter needs to publish an article...
If it's fraud, then it's fun to read about it here - but the matter is not closed yet. We will wait for them to come.
And if it is a real invention, then the reaction is irrelevant.
The statement that you should avoid the risk factors is equivalent in my opinion to the statement that it is better to be young, healthy and rich... that is, an ignorant statement that only adds the obvious.
After all, if there is a treatment or a means of monitoring, there will probably be a need and a market for it, and no doctor will refrain from prescribing it to his patients, claiming that they should stop smoking, or something like that.
Omer:
Yes, they take it out
Omar…
Because then there will be no work for doctors, undertakers, explosions, street cleaners, scientists who will try to reduce air pollution and find treatments for smoking problems, for dentists, for people waiting for organs to be transplanted, what will they do instead of the smoking nooks that are in every hole? go with the cigarette And a thousand and one problems
The profit outweighs the benefit of treating the problem
It's like there will be no wars in the world... it's a terrible thing for us, do you know how many industries are based on the development of weapons? and wars? Especially our small country
Good day 🙂
simple question:
Why isn't smoking outlawed?
It's worth checking if there isn't an attempt at a criminal sting here. The police intelligence, at least, does not have to wait, nor does the Real Estate Authority, if it is a company whose shares are traded on the stock exchange or which was registered on the stock exchange.
The matter is also important because of the scientific name "bad technology" that may come out (if the elements of offenses were indeed formulated here) for science and business in Israel and the terrible disgrace.