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Medical Insight: Polodoc
Dr.med. Andreas KrĂźger is a Swiss board orthopaedic and trauma surgeon in Zurich, who specialises in knee and shoulder surgery. Andi is a second generation of tournament doctors for equine sports, known as Polodoc since 2013 and affiliated with Polo Park Zurich
Better Safe Than Sorry How high tech can push safety
Emergency Call Pit Falls
Device such as the Apple Watch can help improve player safety
Height and speed are a perfect combination for fun when everything runs well. However, with an unintended change of direction comes a bad end of the story - and it’s not a fun part. New wearable high-tech sensors can very precisely measure a lot of variables regarding body function but also how fast and in which direction we move. If a certain critical change of these thresholds happens then immediate detection is possible and can be detected and displayed by technical devices. Due to the modern and widespread telecommunication 64
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network, these technical devices can forward this critical information when the in-built algorithms calculate a possible dangerous situation and no adequate answer of the possibly injured person was accomplished. Many of these devices are available on the market already but the group of users is still small. With the increasing interest of consumers in wearables, the big tech players like Apple and Samsung have started to add and improve sensors for health programs in their devices.
Emergency calls are one of the first moves to make in case of accidents in order to access adequate help in a reasonable time to control the situation and minimise the risk of additional harm due to delay of medical aid. Many accidents in equine sports are minor but geographical factors can prolong the interval until rescue. These intervals can be long, with many of the sports centres or stables located far away from the city centres. Secondly, it can be challenging to find the exact location of the injured person in these remote areas. The quality of information in the distress call reaching first help providers is mostly poor due to lack of orientation or exact knowledge of the current position. The transfer of basic information such as personal identification details or relevant preconditions can be demanding and hard to carry out after injury or during painful moments.
Necessary Sensor
The Apple Watch offers advanced activity and communication features as well as revolutionary health features, including a new accelerometer and gyro sensor capable of detecting severe falls of the Apple Watch wearer and an electric heart rate sensor that works with the new EKG App to record an electrocardiogram (EKG), which has www.polotimes.co.uk
