Applications iPhone Could Diagnosis Heart Attacks

Researchers have made ​​a trial application for the iPhone to assist emergency medical technicians diagnose heart attacks form a very deadly and send that information quickly to the hospital surgical team was waiting.

Low-cost applications that can improve patients' chances of survival as reported by VOA. iPhone app was designed specifically to identify patients suffering from a dangerous type of heart attack known as STEMI or ST-elevation myocardial infarction.

With experimental iPhone app, an emergency medical technician who responded to the call to do the EKG, cardiac activity taking pictures with a camera phone, send it at high speed through a cellular network.

David Burt with his students at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville create the iPhone app. Burt said the app has the ability to save lives by alerting doctors in the emergency room to be ready to receive STEMI patients, which would require catheterization and surgery to unblock arteries.

"The decision as early as possible in the treatment of STEMI process allows the system works so that when the patient arrives, they are thrust into the catheterization laboratory, a variety of things to do and arteries of patients will be opened," said Burt.

IPhone applications that centralize and reduce the image size EKG, send pictures sharp, clear, and easy to read to the doctors who waited over four seconds. Application developers to test-try it more than 1,500 times on three mobile networks in urban America. Typically, emergency medical team takes between 38 and 114 seconds to send photos ECG to the hospital via e-mail - a long time when the lives of patients is at stake.