Close X
Friday, November 29, 2024
ADVT 
India

Smartphone app to save kids with heart conditions

Darpan News Desk IANS, 10 Jul, 2014 01:34 PM
    A new smartphone app being tested at St Louis Children's Hospital in the US is turning out to be a life-saving experience for children with heart conditions.
     
    Named AliveCor, it is a smartphone cover with two metal plates on the back.
     
    It can be used with an app on the phone to conduct an electrocardiogram (ECG) wirelessly which can be sent from the smartphone to the doctor.
     
    The device, however, is not a substitute for a full ECG because it only tests the heart's rhythm and rate.
     
    But the device makes it easy for parents to read the results and alert the doctor if there is an anomaly.
     
    "It is so easy for them to upload that ECG and send it to me and just like they are sending it from their smartphone, I am reading on my smartphone," Jennifer Silva, a pediatric cardiologist at St Louis Children's Hospital, was quoted as saying in a fox2now report.
     
    The device, approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is being used to monitor 37 children ranging in age from two months to 18 years old.
     
    "We can take care of them faster because as soon as parents can upload the data, I can give them the answer on how to best care for themselves," Silva added.
     

    MORE India ARTICLES

    PM Modi sheds another UPA baggage, axes all GOMs, EGOMs for fast decisions, accountability

    PM Modi sheds another UPA baggage, axes all GOMs, EGOMs for fast decisions, accountability
    Doing away with one of the relics of coalition politics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday abolished all 30 ministerial groups to ensure that his colleagues heading various portfolios take faster decisions with more accountability.

    PM Modi sheds another UPA baggage, axes all GOMs, EGOMs for fast decisions, accountability

    Congress cannot paper over Rahul's failures

    Congress cannot paper over Rahul's failures
    Despite Sonia Gandhi's advice to Congressmen to avoid "public acrimony", rumbling of discontent about the party's miserable performance in the recent elections have continued

    Congress cannot paper over Rahul's failures

    Modi Victory: Congress 'communalism' derailed UPA

    Modi Victory: Congress 'communalism' derailed UPA
    The Congress-led UPA claims to be secular; peel a few layers and you will find it is steeped in communalism. The BJP-led NDA, accused of communalism, does all that it can to get rid of this label and walk that extra mile

    Modi Victory: Congress 'communalism' derailed UPA

    Now Congress' Rajasthan legislator attacks Rahul Gandhi

    Now Congress' Rajasthan legislator attacks Rahul Gandhi
    In another attack on Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi following the party's debacle in the Lok Sabha election, a party legislator in Rajasthan Saturday called him "MD of Congress circus".

    Now Congress' Rajasthan legislator attacks Rahul Gandhi

    Mani Shankar Aiyar's comment spurred NRIs to canvass for Modi

    Mani Shankar Aiyar's comment spurred NRIs to canvass for Modi
    When he made his now infamous comment about the recently elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi being a 'chai wala', Congress spokesperson Mani Shankar Aiyar may not have had any inkling that the comment would give an impetus to Indian Americans to launch a 'chai pe charcha' movement

    Mani Shankar Aiyar's comment spurred NRIs to canvass for Modi

    Article 370 debate intended to change discourse: Yasin Malik

    Article 370 debate intended to change discourse: Yasin Malik
    JKLF chief Yasin Malik, claiming that the design behind the article 370 debate raked up by a union minister was to change the Kashmir discourse from independence to centre-state relations, Saturday said his party would soon start a "Quit Kashmir" movement.

    Article 370 debate intended to change discourse: Yasin Malik