CPR

Interview with IvorMedical CEO Dr. Kovic, creator of CPR Pro app & cradle

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Interview with IvorMedical CEO Dr. Kovic, creator of CPR Pro app & cradle – a new way to perform and learn CPR.

Can a smartphone improve CPR? An ER physician’s invention reaches the market

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For anybody who has performed CPR during a “code”, it is feels a lot different that one would expect from watching it in on television or compared to doing it on a dummy during in training. For starters, it is always performed during an emergency, with an actual dying patient. Second, it turns out to be quite tiring to perform compressions for an extended period of time while giving rescue breaths. And, distressingly, the rescuer has almost no way of [Read more]

iPhone used to do actual chest compressions – ED physician demos Pocket CPR app – Innovative or Weird?

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An ED physician from Croatia uses a free app, Pocket CPR, to deliver actual chest compressions.  He uses the built in iPhone accelerometer plus a custom designed cradle to deliver the compressions. I’m not sure if this functionality would actually be useful? We’d be interested to know what you think. Continue on to see the actual video.