App Profile: Cardiochecklist

This application specifically provides a platform for doctors and other health care professionals to access important aspects of patient care in subjects with cardiovascular disease. It is designed to provide a rapidly accessible list applicable to a wide range of clinical cardiovascular problems to ensure that an important aspect of patient care has not been overlooked.
This is not a textbook. It is not intended to “educate” in the comprehensive manner of a book. It is designed to provide a rapidly accessible list that can for used in a variety of clinical scenarios to ensure that an important aspect of patient care has not been overlooked.
The application is comprised of a series of shortlists that include diagnostic criteria, classification of disease, methods of reporting disease, and heart disease management strategies. The checklists are designed to be brief but to include the most important aspects of care and to avoid an important clinical issue being overlooked. These lists include cardiac investigation and reporting, management of hemodynamic problems, acute coronary syndromes, heart failure, valvular heart disease, myocardial disease, arrhythmias, preventive cardiology, aortic diseases, pericardial disease. These checklists are not the last word and are not intended to be followed slavishly or to replace clinical judgment. These checklists are designed to be a convenient, rapidly accessible, tool to help doctors and other healthcare professionals manage their patients