Two Washington companies are working to make football and other contact sports safer for players. Redmond-based Physio-Control and Kirkland-based i 1 Biometrics are tackling the problems of on-field cardiac arrest and impact sport concussions.
Physio-Control will be expanding the availability of its automated external heart defibrillator and dispatch trainers to youth coaching staff across the country to address on-field sudden cardiac arrest. College level football teams are using i 1 Biometrics’ Vector Mouthguard for real-time monitoring of on-field concussions.
Read more in The Seattle Times.
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