King’s College Hospital, King’s College London and Ensono Digital have co-created a prototype app that aims to help paramedics and clinicians effectively triage patients who suffer a cardiac arrest outside of a hospital setting.
Ensono Digital worked with clinicians from King’s College Hospital and King’s College London to develop the app over three days during a Microsoft Hackathon.
The prototype application assesses the risk of brain damage following a cardiac arrest. It uses a neurological risk score from an algorithm known as MIRACLE2, which is calculated from patient data such as age, ECG scores and heart rhythm. Healthcare professionals can then use this information to personalize treatment for the patient.
The app builds on the work of Dr Nilesh Pareek, consultant interventional cardiologist at King’s College Hospital, whose programme of research resulted in the MIRACLE2 algorithm.
Although the app remains in development and is not currently available for clinical use, the aim is to eventually make the MIRACLE2 algorithm accessible and useable for clinicians via the app.
Patient data would be inputted into the app and the algorithm would then use this information to calculate the risk score for a poor neurological outcome.
The continuing development of the app will see it circulated with cardiologists at King’s College Hospital to gain user feedback.
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