{"id":152,"date":"2018-12-28T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surfshields.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/28\/this-wristband-detects-an-opiate-overdose\/"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T10:00:03","slug":"this-wristband-detects-an-opiate-overdose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surfshields.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/28\/this-wristband-detects-an-opiate-overdose\/","title":{"rendered":"This wristband detects an opiate overdose"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"article__featured-image-wrapper breakout\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/MzE5NTczNg.jpeg?w=533\" class=\"article__featured-image\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\">A project by students at Carnegie Mellon could save lives. Called the <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/the-human-os\/biomedical\/devices\/wristband-for-detecting-opioid-overdose-joins-national-race-for-tech-solutions\">HopeBand<\/a>, the wristband senses low blood oxygen levels and sends a text message and sounds an alarm if danger is imminent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine having a friend who is always watching for signs of overdose; someone who understands your usage pattern and knows when to contact [someone] for help and make sure you get help,\u201d student Rashmi Kalkunte told IEEE. \u201cThat\u2019s what the HopeBand is designed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team won third place in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation\u2019s Opioid Challenge at the Health 2.0 conference in September and they are planning to send the band to a needle exchange program in Pittsburgh. They hope to sell it for less than $20.<\/p>\n<p>Given the more than 72,000 overdose deaths in America this year a device like this could definitely keep folks a little safer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/12\/28\/this-wristband-detects-an-opiate-overdose\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfshields.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfshields.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfshields.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfshields.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surfshields.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfshields.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfshields.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfshields.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfshields.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}