Can Artificial Intelligence Identify Your Next Heart Attack?

Can Artificial Intelligence Identify Your Next Heart Attack?

stevanovicigor via Getty Images On a recent overnight shift in the emergency room, a woman who was having vague abdominal pain and chest discomfort for several days was referred to me. When her symptoms began, after searching google, she came up with a diagnosis list that included everything from influenza, to Zika, to lupus. She came to the hospital several days later when it became hard to breath and it turned out that she had a massive heart attack. Cardiac pain originates from the heart muscle, most typically when blood flow to the heart (through vessels called coronary arteries) become blocked. In the heart muscle, there are nerve endings which transmit signals to the brain which get interpreted as chest pain. Unfortunately, just like other pain arising in other organs…


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