A new implantable gadget would detect overdose, control life-sparing naloxone
A Northwestern University teacher has built up an implantable gadget that would regulate the medication when it detects an individual is overdosing.
It's difficult to think something so little can spare lives.
"The naloxone ready to be delivered at the appropriate time," says Northwestern professor of biomedical engineering John Rogers.
A bodycam video shows naloxone being directed by first responders. The medication quickly turns around the impact of an opioid overdose.
“Typically, opioid users are alone when they overdose," Rogers says.
That is the reason Rogers and his group on the Northwestern campus - together with a group from Washington University - are building up the embed that is smaller than a pacemaker.
"We can sense when there is the onset of respiratory...