A smartphone app that can identify heart attacks with a simple sensor attachment
The app seems to be almost as accurate as a standard, 12-lead ECG used to diagnose heart attacks. We found this app may dramatically speed things up and save your life,” said J. Brent Muhlestein, lead investigator from the Intermountain Medical Centre Heart Institute in Salt Lake City in the US. While a typical ECG has 12 leads, which improves the accuracy of a diagnosis because heart attacks happen in different parts of the heart, the AliveCor app has two wire leads that are moved around the body in order to record all 12 parts. Besides speeding up treatment after a STEMI heart attack, the app, which is low on cost, can also make ECGs accessible in places like third world countries where people have smartphones but expensive ECG machines are hard to find, the researchers noted.
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