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Reviewing ECGs is tricky

Picture the scene. You're a paramedic and in front of you is a patient with chest pain who looks rather unwell. You do an ECG, it prints, and the patient is having a STEMI. You call your local pPCI suite to refer the patient but before they accept they want to view the ECG. You're using an electronic patient record but they don't have access to that system. You could use email but that comes with a delay. The clinician on the phone is reluctant to hand out their personal number for you to message them the ECG - not to mention the inherent data protection risks that come with communicating via personal phones. If only a service existed dedicated to securely transmitting ECGs from your phone to a recipient.

We're here to help

A solution did exist for this problem at one point in the form of FastECG. However, that ceased to exist at some point between 2020 and 2022. Electronic patient record rollouts for ambulance services generally doesn't include solutions for departments other than A&E, and no method for communication between other healthcare professionals and cardiac specialists has been developed.

Enter ECG4ED. Download the app, upload your ECG image or images and include a set of observations, treatment given, patient symptoms, and patient comorbidities. Press upload and in a few seconds you'll have an 8 digit code to send to your destination - be that pPCI, CCU, A&E, or some other place where cardioligists reside. All the recipient has to do is head to the website (ecg4ed.com, ecgfored.com, or any of our other domains) and enter the code. They can provide instant feedback on your ECG and advice on where to send your patient. If the observations change or your patient arrests you can update the app and the destination will see that in real time.

Data is encrypted in transit and at rest and is deleted 3 hours after creation. This mitigates the inherent security and data protection issues present when communicating over messaging apps or by email. We think ECG4ED for