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Horrible idea...
Posted by ssavett
8th Oct
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What about arrhythmias? Ectopic beats? Pacemakers? There are a surprising number of people with cardiomyopathies... can they really be accommodated unfailingly by this idea? Cardiologists routinely use drugs that will affect their patients' ECGs (sorry, I'm a Brit - I realise that the US abbreviation for electrocardiogram is EKG but I can't bring myself to use it). Maybe even something as common as beta-blockers would be enough to cause problems. Fingerprints and retinal scans would seem to be much more stable.
Posted by Brian Luff
8th Oct
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Horrible idea...
As an emergency medical technician (EMT) one of the most common types of patients I encounter is the cardiac emergency. We are especially alert of patients with "ST elevation" in their EKG, which indicates a specific kind of heart attack. I can only imagine that a new onset ST elevation wouldn't allow a user to access his or her phone if it were locked by EKG shape. I'm sure the courts would have a field day with a product liability case where somebody couldn't unlock their phone to call for help because the phone didn't recognize their heart beat shape.
Posted by ssavett
8th Oct