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Healthy Living: VIPS Device

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Researchers are testing a new wearable device that can recognize serious strokes, strokes where there’s almost total blockage of blood to the brain.

By identifying these patients quickly, first responders can direct them immediately to hospitals that offer the advanced emergency care they need to survive.

We learn how in today’s Healthy Living.

In a multi-center trial of the VIPS device, Dr. Kellner and his colleagues found it was 92 percent effective in identifying large strokes from small strokes.