Sci-fi Toilet Seats
The future of healthcare might include sensors built into your toilet seat! A toilet seat with a device embedded inside to detect heart failure in high risk patients, is up for FDA approval. This means that instead of having to make a trip to a hospital for expensive medical tests you may be able to just make a trip to your bathroom.
This new high-tech toilet seat is capable of clinical grade measuring of heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygenation, patient weight, and heart stroke volume. Unlike wearing a monitoring device, a trip to the toilet is already part of an individual’s daily routine, allows regular monitoring, and the toilet seat provides plenty of skin contact for accuracy of readings. Â
FDA approval may take two to three years. In the meantime, start thinking up high tech toilet seat jokes and possible ways cleaning your toilet might change.
From HealthLeaders