91-year-old becomes England's first artificial cornea transplant patient ...Tech & Science Daily podcast
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91-year-old Cecil ‘John’ Farley has made history as the first patient in England to receive an artificial cornea.
John faced a year-long wait for sight-saving surgery after a human cornea transplant failed, but his surgeon offered him the chance to skip the queue by using an artificial one.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust consultant ophthalmologist Thomas Poole was the surgeon who performed the operation.
The new artificial cornea, called EndoArt, was created by EyeYon Medical, and only 200 have been implanted worldwide to date.
Tech & Science Daily speak to the lead researcher behind an AI tool ‘can rapidly rule out heart attacks in people attending A&E’, and it could eventually have huge benefits for the NHS.
Roberto Dario Sesia, a PHD student at the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, discusses the groundbreaking technology, known as Rapid-RO.
Rapid-RO was trained using data from over 60,000 patients across the UK and then tested on more than 35,000 patients.
It works by combining the data from the initial troponin blood test with other patient information collected during hospital admission, which is then analysed by the algorithm. Patients are then identified as either being in a very low risk group for having a heart attack, or not.
Rapid-RO was able to successfully rule out heart attacks in 36% of patients, compared to 27% ruled out by troponin blood testing alone.
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