Guwahati: Artificial intelligence (AI) has come into play in combating incidences of heart attacks in Assam govt hospitals with the STEMI Assam pilot project deployed at 10 critical peripheral centres or ‘spokes’ in Kamrup (Metro) district that covers greater Guwahati.
The programme, in its pilot phase since October last year, has shown a significant impact by screening over 1,300 symptomatic cardiac patients, detecting around 40 critical cases, including nine STEMIs (heart attacks) in a turnaround time of less than 10 minutes to enable a ‘golden hour’ intervention and saving precious lives in Assam.
“By approaching primary healthcare centres or health sub-centres, patients can get benefits through this programme. After ECG machines acquire data from the heart patients there, the AI is used to interpret the ECG-acquired data. If the doctors at primary or sub-centres think that a particular case is of a heart attack after analysing ECG data, they transmit the same to ‘hub’ hospitals for suggestions or further advice from the experts,” said head of the cardiology department at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Dr Pranab Jyoti Bhattacharyya.
For a feasibility report, as sought by the state govt, the trial is on with the GMCH as the ‘hub’ hospital.
The pilot for STEMI Assam programme is being run using the advanced solution powered by Tricog Health, a Bengaluru-based health AI company. It said the aim is to enable rapid diagnosis of heart disease in all community and district health facilities in Assam along with timely treatment with the team of cardiologists at the GMCH to reduce the time taken for diagnosis and treatment, thus saving lives.
In the 10 centres covered under the pilot project at present, the patients are diagnosed using a cloud-connected 12 Lead ECG machine.
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The programme, in its pilot phase since October last year, has shown a significant impact by screening over 1,300 symptomatic cardiac patients, detecting around 40 critical cases, including nine STEMIs (heart attacks) in a turnaround time of less than 10 minutes to enable a ‘golden hour’ intervention and saving precious lives in Assam.
“By approaching primary healthcare centres or health sub-centres, patients can get benefits through this programme. After ECG machines acquire data from the heart patients there, the AI is used to interpret the ECG-acquired data. If the doctors at primary or sub-centres think that a particular case is of a heart attack after analysing ECG data, they transmit the same to ‘hub’ hospitals for suggestions or further advice from the experts,” said head of the cardiology department at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Dr Pranab Jyoti Bhattacharyya.
For a feasibility report, as sought by the state govt, the trial is on with the GMCH as the ‘hub’ hospital.
The pilot for STEMI Assam programme is being run using the advanced solution powered by Tricog Health, a Bengaluru-based health AI company. It said the aim is to enable rapid diagnosis of heart disease in all community and district health facilities in Assam along with timely treatment with the team of cardiologists at the GMCH to reduce the time taken for diagnosis and treatment, thus saving lives.
In the 10 centres covered under the pilot project at present, the patients are diagnosed using a cloud-connected 12 Lead ECG machine.
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