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New items added at Skyaid for July 1 -> Aug 24, 2001 - continued
Virtual Hospital has good descriptions of stroke problems added 08/25/01
Puget Sounders are in the U.S. "Stroke Belt" in that they are more likely to die in Puget Sound after having a stroke than in many other regions of the US. added 08/10/01
Stroke - keep cool after calling for help
Sat. Evening Post, March 2001
This is the first lay article we have seen about keeping cool after a stroke
Detailed suggestions about having a cooling blanket in the freezer.
Skyaid intends to have body cooling available in every EMS
vehicle added 07/08/01
Stroke: treating quickly transcript added 07/05/01
Stroke: do not ignore the warning TIA (mini-stroke) transcript added 07/05/01
Stroke-acute treatment - transcript added 07/05/01
Stroke Quiz - 10 multiple choice questions with answers added 07/05/01
Strokes at night more likely to delay care added 07/03/01
Stroke:
Quality of life estimates vary widely over 67 journal articles added
07/02/01
Stroke: 30 Years of tests, yet there has been very little change in how
strokes are treated. added 07/02/01
Skyaid Watch see also Skyaid Watch
Skyaid Watch-type devices overview at Skyaid added 08/24/01
Disposable Cell-Phone could help with some emergencies. Voice recognition dialing, lightweight, $30 price includes 60 minutes of pre-paid time. Available Oct 2001 see also Skyaid Watch added 08/24/01
PanicPendant is a home wireless system which sends a telephone request for help from a 1 button device on your wrist. $130 for basic equipment + $35/month for the service. Higher prices for voice messaging. see also Skyaid Watch added 08/23/01
Armband monitors many parameters, including heart rate see also Skyaid Watch added 08/10/01
Wireless
connections added 07/15/01
Wide area coverage decreasing in most regions of the world in next few
years,
making meteor-burst communications, via Skyaid Watch, very important for emergency
communications.
Blackberry
e-mail has spotty coverage - example, near Seattle added
07/04/01
Skyaid Watch, using meteor-burst
communications, should have 100% coverage.
One billion elderly (over 60) by 2020 = 13% of population, 3/4 of whom will be in developing countries: 231 million China, 145 million India, 30 million Brazil, 29 million Indonesia, etc. Reported in The Futurist - July 2001, taken from Feb 2001 news release of www.ifpri.org, original source apparently is the World Health Organization added 08/17/01
Death
Rate vs. age chart- US males 1900 and 1996
from http://www.prb.org/pubs/population_bulletin/bu53-3/fig4.gif
added 06/30/01
Perhaps Microsoft will donate to Skyaid added 08/05/01
Skyaid phrases searched in July added 07/18/01
Skyaid
web site traffic highlights for July 7-14, 2001
- 144 people each visited the Skyaid web site
more than 10 times that week
- English predominates, followed by Japanese, Spanish, French, ...
- Organizations - wide variety, include 60 different visitors from Boeing
- North America predominates, followed by Asia, Europe, ...
- Google was the preferred search engine
- Language translation via Babel was used by at least 40 visitors
Philanthropy news: estate tax laws, women donating, economic slowdown added 07/06/01
Conditions
which must be considered to predict Skyaid benefit
(EMS, Rural, Type of Emergency, communications added
06/22/01
Should we call Skyaid Medic 2.0? It will be
much faster
than Medic 1.0
Humor: Upgrading from
Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 added 5/19/01