Heart Attack Symptoms : Signs of a Heart Attack - Life saving app for recovering heart attack patients

Heart Attack Symptoms : Signs of a Heart Attack




Classic signs of a heart attack. Patients
that have a heart attack often complain of
chest pain, which they described as crushing
pressure, or heaviness in the chest, often
associated with an elephant sitting on their
chest, or being kicked in the chest by a mule.
This pain can be very sharp or at sometimes
dull. The pain will also radiate; most often
to the left arm and the left jaw, but can
also include pain in the right arm, right
shoulder, or the back. Nausea and vomiting
is common, as is shortness of breath. Your
skin may become cool, pale, and sweaty, and
dizziness or blurred vision can occur. In
people, especially women that are diabetics
or other non-classic patients that have diabetes,
very high pain tolerance, or a former history
of heart attacks may not have these classic
signs, and symptoms can be a lot more dull
and vague, but most often, do include the
chest pain and one of the other symptoms,
like the nausea and vomiting, shortness of
breath, lightheadedness, and blurriness of
the vision, as we just described.

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Life saving app for recovering heart attack patients




[Music plays]
(Dr. Mohan Karunanithi)
Every year there's about
55,000 Australians who
suffer a heart attack.
That’s, when you look at it,
in terms of scale it’s one
in every ten minutes
somebody’s having
a heart attack.
So it’s really
quite significant.
(Professor Darren Walters)
And once you’ve had a heart
attack you’re at high
risk for further problems
over the course of your life.
One thing that you can do that will
help prevent people needing to
come back into hospital is to
undertake cardiac rehabilitation.
Cardiac Rehabilitation's really
an overall comprehensive
programme around life
style modification,
risk factor modification.
The development of the
sustainable exercise strategies
to lower your risk
into the future.
The trouble is, for various reasons
we can’t get people to cardiac rehab.
They either are not referred
or if they’re referred
they don’t come or if they do
come they don’t see it through.
Imagine if you could conduct this
research using a smart phone.
Put physiological
parameters into the phone
like a weight and blood
pressure, track it over time,
do all the things you'd
do in a rehab setting.
(Dr. Mohan Karunanithi) The
Smartphone app captures
health measurements and the life
style risk factor modification.
It also provides education
and motivational components
that will give you an
SMS text messages.
The information from
there is uploaded
into a clinical programme which
a care mentor
uses to provide weekly consultation
through the six week programme.
(Professor Darren Walters)
We get twice as many
people through using
this technology
than we could if we just
referred them to a
community based
rehabilitation programme
and that has the potential
over the long course.
If you double the number
of people going to rehab
to save lives and save money.
(Dr. Mohan Karunanithi) The smart
phone helps them to complete
the cardiac rehab programme
simply because it aligns with
the patient’s daily routine.
(Chris Porter) My name is
Chris and I got the app
from Queensland health
after I had a heart event.
The app prompt me with my
rehabilitation every day.
They sent information through and
motivational and educational tutorials
and so every day I would see more
and more changes in my lifestyle
and moving away from the
lifestyle that I had
that created the heart event.
(Dr. Mohan Karunanithi) It takes
them through providing education
so that it can inform them of their
health condition and what more...
and how to motivate themselves
into self managing the condition.
(Chris Porter) Managing
my own rehabilitation
certainly gives you a certain
amount of empowerment
that you’re not having to rely
on going to the doctors or
going to some sort of health
professional all the time.
(Professor Darren Walters) CSIRO
have been a pleasure to work with.
I mean finding someone who will
partner and make your concepts
or your ideas and turn
them into a reality,
that’s... that’s been, you
know, very satisfying.
It’s been an incredible journey.
(Dr. Mohan Karunanithi) Without
working with Queensland Health
we wouldn’t have actually been
able to deliver the care delivery
that closely aligns
with what is...
currently providing the
traditional skill.
(Professor Darren Walters) We have
demonstrated “Wow, this works”.
People have embraced the technology
and that’s the exciting phase.
We have embedded this now in
usual practice for people
and we’re currently transitioned
it into a real option
for people in Metro North
and in West Morton.
And I think this trial for
the first time gives you
that level of evidence and confidence
that these new interventions do work.
(Dr. Mohan Karunanithi) Well if you
look at cardiac rehab and the app that
we’ve got now it addresses
risk factors very similar
to other chronic diseases.
And what we are looking
at extending is
to this pulmonary diseases,
diabetes and heart failure.
(Professor Darren Walters) All of
these conditions could be managed
through
a similar type platform.
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