Building effective and accurate sensors that can recognize the loss of circulation and then automatically notify a dispatch center of the location of the SCA patient will ensure that each SCA is “witnessed” immediately at the time of the collapse. Such sensors could increase the chance of survival in the current treated but “unwitnessed” group from 4%-16%. Sensors will also double the number of patients treatable by paramedics (rather than declaring futility due to lengthy intervals between collapse and discovery). Widespread use of biosensors would increase the number of cardiac arrest survivors nationally from 1,800 to 6,000 per year.
Recent Publications
Lingawi, S., Hutton, J., Khalili, M., Shadgan, B., Christenson, J., Grunau, B., & Kuo, C. (2024). Cardiorespiratory Sensors and Their Implications for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Detection: A Systematic Review. Annals of biomedical engineering, 10.1007/s10439-024-03442-y. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-024-03442-y
Hutton, J., Grunau, B., Asamoah-Boaheng, M., Christenson, J., Khalili, M., Kuo, C., Lingawi, S., Puyat, J. H., Shadgan, B., & Sobolev, B. (2023). The Effect of Recognition on Survival after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and Implications for Biosensor Technologies. Resuscitation, 109906. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2023.109906
Raschdorf, K., Mohseni, A., Hogle, K., Cheung, A., So, K., Manouchehri, N., Khalili, M., Lingawi, S., Grunau, B., Kuo, C., Christenson, J., & Shadgan, B. (2023). Evaluation of transcutaneous near-infrared spectroscopy for early detection of cardiac arrest in an animal model. Scientific reports, 13(1), 4537. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31637-1
Hutton J, Lingawi S, Puyat JH, Kuo, C., Shadgan, B., Christenson, J., & Grunau, B. Sensor technologies to detect out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A systematic review of diagnostic test performance. Resusc Plus. 2022;11:100277. Published 2022 Jul 27. doi:10.1016/j.resplu.2022.100277
Researchers
Brian Grunau, Babak Shagdan, Calvin Kuo, Jim Christenson, Mahsa Khalili, Saud Lingawi, Jacob Hutton, Justin Yap