Smartphones are full of resources, especially medical ones! A start-up from Caen, called Samdoc, has developed a mobile application available to resuscitation services, as explained by France Bleu Normandie. Her name is Nevva and allows the patient’s pain to be measured live. Explanations.
The specialty of this start-up is to digitize the medical gaze, to make it possible to examine the faces of hospitalized patients. The concept is simple: the smartphone films the patient’s facial expressions and deciphers whether he is in pain or is well. An intensity curve is then generated from the analysis of the images.
Relieve (also) caregivers
This observation was not invented by the application, it is a classic means of studying pain in intensive care. Corn until now, it was the medical staff who went to the patient’s room every 4 to 6 hours to interpret the movements of the body.
The goal for the start-up is that this software can be used quickly, to streamline the operation of resuscitation services and relieve caregivers, in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis. In the meantime, the validation of the application scheduled for next May, it will be tested at the Rouen University Hospital.
Sources: Samdoc, France Bleu Normandie
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