The Sanitas Real Madrid medical services check the effectiveness of a shirt that helps detect and prevent cardiopatias

controls in real time the State of the heart while practicing physical exercise

– allows to understand the behaviour of the heart, easily and non-invasive, in situations and for periods of time that until now were not possible

– will significantly complement all the tests that are currently made to minimize cases of sudden death in football

-former players of the first team as Zidane, Butragueño or of the network, have already tested the shirt

Madrid, August of 2011- when practised intense sports activity, the heart of the sportsman behaves very differently to as does it when it is at rest. For this reason, it is important to know and monitor your heart rate at the time of physical exercise. To this end, the services doctors Sanitas-Real Madrid are testing an innovative technology for the heart control named as nECG Platform. The main novelty of this technology is the integration into a t-shirt of a new generation of textile sensors (BlendFix ® Sensor Electrode Technology) developed and patented by the Spanish company Nuubo.

This shirt lets the athlete in real time (at the moment) or deferred (after use) while practice exercise. The shirt integrates textile electrodes containing user electrocardiographic signal, that is sent, along with the GPS signal and the acelerometría, to a computer or a mobile device using Bluetooth ® wireless technology. This allows not only to view, store and review the information, but also send it to the cloud so that it can be analyzed from any location.

The objective is to provide physicians in a useful tool for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease as those other diseases where impaired heart rate is one of its manifestations; It also allows complement significantly all the tests that are currently made to minimize cases of sudden death in football. You are currently using in some hospitals as a tool for monitoring in cardiac rehabilitation.

This garment, which bears the CE marking of conformity as a medical product, has been designed by Nuubo in collaboration with services physicians Sanitas-Real Madrid, the Biomechanics Institute of Valencia and the Interuniversity Institute of research in Bioengineering and technology Orientada in human beings (i3BH) of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.

Advantages over current media

This shirt has a specific design that allows you to offer the maximum comfort and improve the contact of the electrodes to ensure an optimal electrocardiographic signal. Also offers the following advantages:

to the contrary in other diagnostic tests, allowing to control the signal ECG in situations of physical activity intense, without any kind of discomfort for the person. It also allows to monitor the patient in his usual life for months, with 48 hours of the current media.

Currently it is a significant improvement over the traditional Holter, that covers requirements and uses that it does not provide. To be a technique less invasive, simple and inexpensive, it may be replaced soon subcutaneous Holter, thus changing the paradigm of cardiac monitoring.

It allows a great saving both cost and time, since it offers a monitoring lect and not supervised, being the user which can put the shirt and the device without having to scroll to any medical center to do so.

A t-shirt with proven

The effectiveness of this pledge has already been ascertained by the services doctors Sanitas-Real Madrid. In one of the tests, Luis Serratosa, doctor of the Sanitas-Real Madrid medical services, monitored to Emilio Butragueño, Zinedine Zidane, Red Rubén, Aitor Karanka, Rafael García Cortés and Andrés Sabido, all of them are former players of Real Madrid during the Veterans team played against Bayern Munich last June, in the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

Ruben of the network, one of the former Madrid players used the shirt highlighted the convenience of the garment. Similarly, other former players claimed not to have any kind of discomfort during the match that he wore the shirt.

The shirt can be used without any contraindication in trainings, friendly and parties on a daily basis in the case of sportsmen whose doctor recommended.

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