CPR Tempo
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical | Free | Frozen Ape Pte. Ltd. | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
The American Heart Association recommends a rate of 100 compressions per minute during CPR. This is difficult to maintain without audio cues, especially as the rescuer tires. ER nurse and Army Reservist MAJ Don Kyle shared with Frozen Ape about our metronome app Tempo is being used for this purpose. We have since worked with Don to create a specialised app, including the following bonus features:
- Timer with visual and audio cues for rhythm checks
- Timer with visual and audio cues for Epinephrine administration
- Log of each resuscitation event detailing each action taken and location of event (location services required)
- Configurable CPM (compressions per minute) from 100 to 120
- Configurable epinephrine interval from 3 to 5 minutes
Disclaimer: This app follows standards recommended by the American Heart Association. Do not use this app if these standards do not align with your medical practice. Please familiarize yourself with this app, including the tutorial, and verify the settings before using the app in an actual resuscitation event. Frozen Ape Pte. Ltd. is not liable for mishaps due to the misuse of, or malfunctioning of the app.
Reviews
Some folks would like additional features but I like the simplicity.
Dave80906
Additional features can create other issues and complexity. During a resuscitation, the focus must remain on the patient, not the app.
overall it is a very helpful app
cardiacrn
we have used this app on actual code blue situations. ive been a recorder multiple times and i work at cardiac floor, this helps us keep track of next due pulse checks and epis. the only problem i have is once u press that button esp by mistake, u cant refresh it.
Useful!
Ginnicsim
Great just for keeping tempo, but doesn’t actually keep count of your cycles or tell you when to do breaths. It would be excellent if that feature could be added. One of the most difficult parts of CPR is keeping count and not losing track! Still, for a free app, this is great - a great help to anyone who finds him/herself in need to perform CPR.
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bblomq
Great app. Works well. Please add the watch app. I could start the watch counting quickly when starting CPR.
Nice app but...
Elizabeth Fisona
Nice starting point. The metronome is great. It's cool that it tells you to check the pulse every 2 minutes and helps to keep everyone on track, but I'd change the name of the defibrillation button to something else, like CPR. Also it's nice that it has the epi button and it counts down until the next epi...I'd consider just renaming that to drug, if its too complicated to add other drug buttons. The log is great. It also needs some way to override the sleep set on your phone, so it'll be beeping along and just stop because your phone went into sleep mode. It's a nice start and could be a great app with a few tweaks.
Great app!
Disneyfanatic101
I am an instructor for EMT, lay responder CPR/AED and professional CPR/AED and I use this app all the time to teach my students the right speed of compressions they should be doing in two minutes!
Love it!
Mother hill
Absolutely love this app. Let's you change and save your epi interval to 4 minutes. As an AHA instructor I will recommend this to my students as well.
EMRAP should have recommended this
Evidence based police
On the most recent podcast EMRAP spoke about the importance of getting the heart rate right and the outcome of CPR. This app would be great and helps all of us to "take our own pulse” during a code. Too often people do chest compression too fast, sometimes with compression rate up to 150 in many of the codes I have seen. While there are devices that provide feedback of CPR quality, this app would do in the absence of those gadgets.
