AFib Educator app for iPhone and iPad

4.4 ( 3744 ratings )

Education Medical
Developer: sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC.

Free

Current version: 3.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 16 Mar 2010
App size: 25.54 Mb

The AFib Educator was developed to help healthcare providers explain atrial fibrillation (AFib) to patients, their families and caregivers.

This app provides healthcare professionals with an interactive resource to help illustrate how AFib can affect the heart; visually demonstrate the symptoms, risks and management strategies of AFib; and where patients can learn more.
• Detailed animated, color diagrams of the heart under normal rhythm and during AFib
• Fluoroscopy (x-ray) images of the heart in and out of rhythm, featuring the hearts electrical impulse
• EKG readings with normal heart rate and with AFib
• AFib management animations: demonstrates the effects of different management strategies for a heart in AFib, including:
- Rate control
- Rhythm control
• AFib risk animations:
- Stroke risk animation: shows an AFib-related stroke to illustrate that a blood clot can travel from the heart to the brain as a result of AFib
- Remodeling process animation: depicts the remodeling process, which is a result of untreated AFib that affects the shape and size of the heart
• Facts about the signs, symptoms, prevalence and risks of AFib can be shared through the "E-mail a Friend" feature.

Pros and cons of AFib Educator app for iPhone and iPad

AFib Educator app good for

Im a RN in critical care, this is a great visual tool to teach and show a patient what their heart is doing when its in A-fib vs NSR.

Pulls info together as an excellent yet concise educational tool. Makes easier to grasp this electrical problem of the heart.

I downloaded this app not knowing where I would find it useful; just today however, my patient asked about my iPod touch, and I took the opportunity to show him several apps, finishing with this afib demonstration. He was silently enthralled. This man, so I heard, had fired two cardiologists and threatened legal action against a major medical center because these foolish people had tried to treat him (appropriately) for a. fib. He played the app over and over. Then he asked what he needed to do to treat his condition. THANK YOU. He really is a great guy, though a retired engineer, and stubborn, but I repeat myself.

Im an anesthesiologist who likes to educate my patients. I cant express strongly enough the gratitude of patients and families who FINALLY actually understand what "Afib" really is. This app is excellent. Im do glad to have it. Re: previous review with pt who was an engineer. I had similar experience w/retired engineer who was non/compliant. After I showed him, his wife, and his daughter the app, he was convinced, too. He had an ipod Touch, too, and requested I send him the app link, so now he has the app, too! Great service and kudos to developer!

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