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The use of monitored heart bracelets can prevent sudden death in sports practice.
This is the proposal of the business project IC-Life,
developed by Hugo Alberto Ferrer
and awarded by the INCREA Chair
of Innovation, Creativity and Learning from Universitat Jaume I.
- The IC-Life project consists of using bracelets
located over the radial artery in the wrist
capable of sending, via information and communication technologies,
cardiac data of both professional and amateur sports practitioners
to people capable of monitoring sports practitioners during the sports event.
- In Spain occurs an average of more than 8 cases
of sudden death per year,
specially in sports like cycling or football.
Besides preventing these deaths,
heart bracelets would enable to control doping with certain substances.
- The system of IC-Life project enables to detect heart abnormalities
in professional and amateur sport practitioners
that weren't detected in previous medical controls,
improves the actuation of sanitary means in sports events
and is also capable of improving efectiveness
in current anti-doping controls.
- The cost of the bracelets, the monitoring equipment and the necessary antennas
would not exceed 20 000 euros.
This is a cost much lower than the 180 000 euros
that would be necessary to undertake a weekly cardiovascular check-up to 25 football players,
and, what is even more important for the author of the project,
it would save lives.
-What we want is to improve security in any sport
both at competitive and amateur levels.
Whereas in Italy there is a Law from 1971
that protects sports practitioners and watches for their security,
here in Spain there is a lack of this kind of method.
Italy has decreased its sudden-death cases by 90%
whereas in the rest of Europe sudden death is growing.
- Hugo Alberto Ferrer has a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration
and a Master's Degree in Advanced Accountancy
and Financial Management by Universitat Jaume I.
His project IC-Life has the collaboration of members of the Provincial Hospital
and the General Hospital from Castelló,
and the Science, Technology and Business Park (Espaitec).