Saving Lives by Remote Control the Mobile Phones Carried by Millions Could Potentially Have Huge Healthcare Bene. Ts, According to a Recent Trial. By Iain S Bruce

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Having lived with cystic fibrosis for two decades, student Marcella Creedon thought she had a handle on her illness until the night a mobile phone pulled her back from the brink of a life- threatening medical collapse. Completely oblivious to her peril, she had been hours away from a potentially catastrophic attackwhen the call that prevented disaster arrived.

In retrospect, Creedon knows that she was incredibly lucky. Descending into a full-blown cystic fibrosis (CF) episode could have left her facing many months in a hospital bed and a long, painful recovery, but she was participating in a groundbreaking clinical trial using mobile phones to monitor chronically ill patients'progress, and this single factor could very well have saved her life. Timely, instantaneous and delivered regardless of the fact that she was on holiday 1000 miles from home, when the warning came it was completely unexpected, but proved to have arrived in the nick of time.

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Saving Lives by Remote Control the Mobile Phones Carried by Millions Could Potentially Have Huge Healthcare Bene. Ts, According to a Recent Trial. By Iain S Bruce

"I've lived with CF for 20 years and I felt fine, so I didn't believe I was going to become ill while away, " says Creedon. "But one night after I'd used the system to send data about my symptoms to the team looking afterme, they rang to tell me I was heading for an infection. Their advice meant I could go to the local hospital and be treated successfully before the infection took hold. If I hadn...

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