Equivital
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Equivital is a proprietary wearable remote physiological monitoring system developed by Hidalgo Limited, a Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...

 UK based biomedical company.

Capable of monitoring a range of physiological signs including heart rate, respiration, skin and core body temperature, the system is used by military, emergency services, sports and sports science research organisations, and arctic explorers.

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See also

  • Remote physiological monitoring
    Remote physiological monitoring
    Remote monitoring of people is now a possibility due to remote wireless technology and miniaturization. Also the advent of smart fabrics in recent years has allowed people to stay attached to monitoring devices without the issues of discomfort, large bulky technology or skin break down associated...

  • Battlefield medicine
    Battlefield medicine
    Battlefield medicine, also called field surgery and later combat casualty care, is the treatment of wounded soldiers in or near an area of combat. Civilian medicine has been greatly advanced by procedures that were first developed to treat the wounds inflicted during combat...

  • Heart rate monitor
    Heart rate monitor
    A heart rate monitor is a personal monitoring device which allows a subject to measure his or her heart rate in real time or record his or her heart rate for later study...

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