EMS

AUDICOR® helps paramedics accurately diagnose, quickly assess, and easily monitor high-risk cardiac conditions including heart failure and acute coronary syndrome (ACS).
Since paramedics have few diagnostic tests at their disposal, it is a challenge for them to accurately determine if a patient's shortness of breath is cardiac or respiratory. Patient history is often not available and physician examination is often non-specific. A pre-hospital study of 222 adult patients with shortness of breath noted an overall error rate of 23%. Importantly, in those patients who had co-morbidities, e.g. chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failure was missed in 46%. Accurate pre-hospital diagnosis and treatment improves patients' outcomes; conversely, administrating heart failure drugs to patients with non-cardiac shortness of breath has been shown to increase patient mortality (13.6% improper treatment vs. 3.8% proper treatment). AUDICOR® identifies the third heart sound, which in the proper clinical context should lead paramedics to consider heart failure as a potential diagnosis.

AUDICOR® electrocardiography helps improve the diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome with significantly better overall sensitivity performance compared to the leading electrocardiographs.

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