QRDI and Aspetar Sports Medicine Hospital are driving innovation in professional sports within Qatar with the goal to become a global leader in sports-related injury assessment and treatment. This includes cardiac monitoring.
Running. Cardiac monitoring is vital in sports. Image credit: agoengadryirawan76 via Pixabay (Pixabay licence)
Aspetar invites proposals from Startups, SMEs, and Corporates for technologies that can support real-time cardiac monitoring of athletes.
Aspetar is looking for easy to use, minimally-invasive devices with software support which allow real-time, centralized monitoring of multiple athletes to anticipate any cardiac events/irregularities in team sports including football, handball and basketball.
Overview
Aspetar is the first specialised Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital in the Gulf region. It provides the highest possible medical prevention and treatment for sports-related injuries in a state-of-the-art facility, staffed by some of the world’s leading sports medicine practitioners and researchers.
Today, almost all professional athletes are wearing sensors that register physiological parameters (e.g. heart rate, skin temperature, power etc) and movement characteristics. After their performances, the data is collected and processed for further analysis.
Coaches and physiotherapists use the data to accurately understand the athlete’s past performance, his/her current physical condition, how to enhance the recovery or to prevent injuries from happening. This approach will also need to be transferred to cardiac athlete care to prevent exercise related sudden cardiac death.
This requires accurate ECG monitoring during exercise in various conditions and circumstances of training and competition.
Unfortunately, at this moment there is no system available that allows the real-time, centralized ECG monitoring of single and also multiple athletes while performing.
Such a system would allow medical teams to closely monitor a group of athletes simultaneously, to detect acute anomalies such as cardiac irregularities at the earliest stages, and to support the decision making in possibly life threatening situations.
Submissions to this Challenge must be received by Sep 30, 2023.
Source: NineSights