Portable heart attack detector

Abstract

The word ‘Health’ has paved its way into the minds of the masses. Issues related to health are increasing at an alarming rate. Cardiovascular diseases, once considered to be a malady for the middle aged, is now prevalent among young adults. It is said that heart attack kills 1 person every 33 seconds in India [1]. The proposed model aims at detecting the occurrence of a heart attack by diagnosing the ECG signal. The chances of death due to heart attack can be greatly reduced by enabling access to immediate medical attention. This paper mainly emphasizes on collection and inspection of ECG signal for determination of a heart attack condition. Here, the survey on various behaviours and conditions observed in the ECG during heart attack would be discussed which is further processed and accordingly notified to the concerned individuals. The device aims to reduce the response time in case of occurrence of a heart attack which is crucial to prevent major damage to the distressed muscles in the heart.