Pocket Heart, A Cardiac Anatomy Learning Tool for iPhone

Thanks Medgadget,

"This simulator might also be helpful to medical students, residents and clinicians learning to perform echocardiography, by allowing to correlate echo images to the anatomy. So grab the Pocket Heart and head to our own EchoJournal to learn more about cardiac echoes."

Great idea!! If any viewers can think of other learning uses for this App, please post your thoughts.

Best regards,
Mark

Well, Mark, the next stage would be to add simulated "lesions" and show associated screens of ECG results. One might learn/remember what changes at the ECG as you have for ie. a posterior wall infarct. Adding pathology to normal anatomy and you have a formidable tool for every student or clinician!

Question: are you planning other organs/system as well? I would be much interested in CNS/PNS anatomy...

This is a remarkably well done application - one that medical students can certainly enjoy and learn from. The medical school at the University of Pennsylvania used a very rudimentary version - GARP, the Gross Anatomy Review Program in the early 90�s as an educational tool http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/1991/10/18/Archive/Computer.Aids.Come.To.Med.School-2184274.shtml which was used by over half the medical students. I always felt that GARP (and Pocket Heart even more so) could be a great tool for educating patients.

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Kensai & Albert,

Many thanks for your feedback and apologies for not responding until now. With the app going live, we've been getting quite a lot of calls.

"Adding pathology to normal anatomy and you have a formidable tool for every student or clinician!"

-This is a great suggestion Kensai, and one we will definitely add to the (growing!) list of suggested additions.

"are you planning other organs/system as well? I would be much interested in CNS/PNS anatomy..."

- Yes, so please keep an eye out for us on the App Store!

"I always felt that GARP (and Pocket Heart even more so) could be a great tool for educating patients."

- Yes Albert, our thoughts also. Is there any work being done on GARP these days? I looked online and found this link: http://www.umdnj.edu/librweb/newarklib/media/programs/garp.html

Thanks again,
Mark Campbell