VOA慢速英語:New iPhone App Improves the Chance of Survival for Heart Attack Victims

From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report.

這里是美國之音慢速英語科技報道節(jié)目。

Researchers have developed an experimental iPhone application, or app, they can improve the chance of survival for heart attack victims.

研究人員已經(jīng)開發(fā)出了一款實驗性iPhone手機應用程序，它可以提高心臟病患者的生存機會。

The iPhone app is specially designed to identify patients suffering from a heart attack known as STEMI, or ST-elevation myocardial infarction.

這款iPhone應用程序是專門針對患有被稱為ST段抬高心肌梗死(以下簡稱STEMI)的心臟病患者。

In STEMI, blood flow to the heart is stopped because of a blockage in a coronary artery. Unlike other kinds of heart attacks, STEMIs show up very clearly on an electrocardiogram, or ECG. Doctors use such tests to measures a electrical activity in the heart.

在STEMI這種疾病中，由于冠狀動脈堵塞造成流向心臟的血液停止。不同于其它類型的心臟病，STEMI在心電圖中體現(xiàn)得很清楚。醫(yī)生使用這種檢測手段來測量心臟電活動。

The experimental iPhone app, should be a great help to healthcare technicians reacting to a possible medical emergency. They can perform an ECG, and then take a picture of the tests results with the camera on the telephone. They can then send that information ahead to hospital emergency-room doctors.

這款實驗性iPhone應用程序對醫(yī)療專家應對可能發(fā)生的醫(yī)療急救有很大的幫助。它們可以執(zhí)行心電圖檢測，然后使用手機上的攝像頭拍下檢測結果，然后提前把該信息發(fā)送給醫(yī)院急診室的醫(yī)生。

The iPhone App is the work of David Burt and his students at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He says the app can help save lives by preparing doctors for the arrival of the STEMI patient.

這款iPhone應用程序是弗吉尼亞大學的大衛(wèi)·伯特(David Burt)和他的學生的杰作。該大學位于夏洛茨維爾市。他表示，這款手機應用程序可以通過幫助醫(yī)生做好搶救即將到來的STEMI患者的準備，從而挽救患者的生命。

"So a decision made as early as possible in the STEMI treatment process allows the system to ramp up or mobilize so that when the patient shows up, they are pushed into the "cath" [catheterization] lab, everything happens and their [coronary] artery gets opened [unblocked]."

他說，“在STEMI治療過程中，盡早做決定可以使得醫(yī)療系統(tǒng)調動起來。所以當病人出現(xiàn)時就被送入心導管檢查室，一切治療開始啟動，他們的動脈被打開。”

David Burt and his team tested the app 1,500 times over three American cellular phone networks in an populated area.

伯特和他的小組基于3家美國移動電話網(wǎng)絡，在人口稠密地區(qū)對這款應用程序進行了1500次測試。

"If your iPhone at the time that you hit 'send' shows two or more bars, the app is successful in sending an image 94-plus percent of the time in less than 10 seconds."

他說，“如果點擊發(fā)送時你的手機有兩格以上的信號，這款應用程序在10秒內發(fā)送圖片成功的次數(shù)就會達到94%以上。”

The developers are now testing the iPhone app in rural areas, where cell phone reception is more problematic than in cities.

開發(fā)人員目前正在農(nóng)村地區(qū)測試這款iPhone應用程序，在農(nóng)村地區(qū)，手機信號比城市更成問題。

In a separate story, a farmer in China who lost his hands in a fishing accident has turned his tragedy into a family business. His company now sells bionic arms to other amputees.

在另一則新聞中，一位在捕魚事故中失去雙手的中國農(nóng)民將他的悲劇變成了一門家庭生意。他的公司目前向其它截肢者出售仿生手臂。

Sun Jifa of Jilin province lost his hands nearly ten years ago. His own bionic arms was the first one he built. He says it transfers the power from the natural movement of his elbows into the finger allowing it to grab and hold. He turns his work into a home based business.

吉林省的孫繼發(fā)(音譯)在近10年前失去了雙手。他自己的仿生手臂是他造的第一個。他表示，這種仿生手臂可以將手肘自然運動的力量轉移到手指，然后就能抓握。他將他的這一杰作轉換成了一門以家庭為基礎的生意。

Sun Jifa says he has sold about 1000 steel limbs at a cost of $490 each. He says they are less costly and just as effective as higher quality prosthesis.

孫繼發(fā)表示，他以490美元的價格售出了大約1000副鋼制假肢。他說，這種假肢更便宜，但和高品質的假肢一樣有效。