Health Check Apps
Know Your Pulse App
Being aware of your pulse is important because it may help identify an abnormal heart rhythm (cardiac arrhythmia). A cardiac arrhythmia is an electrical problem with the heart which causes the heart to beat too fast (tachycardia), too slow (bradycardia) or erratically. It can cause a range of conditions including Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD), syncope (blackouts or loss of consciousness), and atrial fibrillation (a leading cause of stroke, and the most common of all cardiac arrhythmias). The Pulse Application requires Flash Player
AF Stroke Risk Calculator
What's your personal AF stroke risk? At 40, we all have a one in four chance of developing AF. Having AF means that you are five times more likely to suffer from a stroke than someone without AF. Individual risk of stroke, however, will be determined by several contributory factors.
If you’ve been diagnosed with AF please use this calculator to work out a personal estimate of your stroke risk. The tool collects vital information on your health and provides a print out of information that you and your doctor will be able to use when assessing the potential need for treatment to reduce your risk of stroke because of AF.
Blackouts Check App
A blackout is a transient loss of consciousness. Most blackouts are due to syncope, (sin-co-pee), where the blood flow to the brain is temporarily halted. Other causes are epilepsy and psychological disturbances. When a patient has a blackout, doctors try hard to find the correct diagnosis. Often, however, when the patient is seen by the doctor they have completely recovered, and the doctor's examination and tests don't show anything. In all cases, however, there may be sign-posts that can tell if the blackouts are risky or not risky.
The Blackouts Check app has been developed specifically to enable patients, family members and doctors to go through questions relating to the high-risk causes of blackouts. Any high risk characteristic of the patient gets a "Red Flag" signifying that the patient should seek medical attention. If no Red Flags are found, then at the end of the Check app, the patient gets a "Green Flag". This means that the blackouts are very likely to be of a simple, harmless type.
The app is available for £2.99 from the itunes store:
Download Blackouts Check app*. With each download £1.82 of funds go to the Syncope Trust And Reflex anoxic Seizures (STARS)
*iTunes software is required to download the Blackouts Check app
