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It has the possibility of dramatically increasing a patients odds of survival. >> if you had any problems with chest discomfort... >> reporter: elizabeth is a heart attack survivor. >> passed out at home, and they took me right in... >> reporter: according to the national institutes of health, roughly 1 million americans have heart attacks every year, and, only a little more than half survive. >> once an artery closes you have 45 minutes before the muscle tissue is irreversibly damaged. >> repor...

Doctors say they are getting closer to doing just that with the help of a device called the angel med guardian. it looks and works like a pager. small chip about the size of a silver dollar implanted into the patients chest and constantly monitors their ticker. the moment an abnormality is detected the chip vibrates in the chest will an external pager beeps and flashes. this can happen before a patient knows they are about to have a heart attack. if they get to the hospital in time, doctors coul...

It detects the early warning signs of cardiac arrest. its a pager, folks. casey stegall live in arizona with more. hi, casey. >> just like the pagers everybody used to carry before cell phones, coronary heart disease, we hear this all the time, it is the single leading cause of death in this country. according to the national institutes of health, about 1 million americans have heart attacks every single year and the survival rates are only a little more than half of those patients. so what if y...

Casey stegall live with more details about this. >> sounds like something you would see out of a movie but it is reality across the country. first of all, coronary heart disease the single leading cause of death in this country. the national institutes of health says that roughly one million americans have heart attacks every single year and just a little more than 50% of them actually survive. so, what if doctors could actually previctories when an attack could happen? they say they are getting...