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2014英语四级听力练习慢速3.15(1)

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

　　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.

　　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 ) lab, everything happens and their ) artery gets opened.

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

　　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.

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

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　　Im Faith Lapidus in Washington.

　　Alzheimers disease destroys the memory. When a person develops Alzheimers, their family and friends are directly affected. It especially affects those people responsible for caring for them. People with Alzheimers have difficulty remembering doctors appointments and when to take medicine. A new app is designed to make caring for Alzheimers patients easier. June Simms has more.