"Smart speakers" will be able to save a person from death

As the experiment showed, such speakers, equipped with an additional element, are able to catch sounds indicating heart failure, and call an ambulance, writes The Daily Mail. The column determined that a cardiac arrest occurred, in 97% of cases, even if alarm sounds were heard at a distance of 6 meters.

Addition to the columns developed by the University of Washington. Scientists urge to put columns in the bedroom, where most often occurs cardiac arrest. A halt can be judged by the characteristic agonal breathing (observed in 50% of victims) - frequent, superficial, and convulsive. It indicates a decrease in the level of oxygen.

Scientists used audio recordings of such a breath during 162 calls to the ambulance, trying to analyze them using smart speakers, smartphones and special computer algorithms. The assembled system had a diagnostic accuracy of almost 100%. The probability of a false positive diagnosis was 0.22%.

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