Cardiologist’s teenage son creates coding system that could save lives following MIs
Ben Wald, a 16-year-old from London, has created a coding system that could help save the lives of patients following MIs, the Evening Standard reports.
Wald developed the idea after witnessing an open heart surgery at Barts Heart Centre where his father, David, works as a cardiologist.
Ben and David Wild worked together on a coding system in which surgeons tie wires that close the sternum in a certain way. By doing so, the physicians can leave a message inside patients’ chests indicating the number of heart grafts and their locations.
In March, Wald’s code won a prize for innovation from the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery. The newspaper reports that Wald will present the concept at the British Cardiovascular Society annual conference in June.
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