Calendar

10 – 12 April

Kardiologisen seuran kevätkokous, Helsinki, Finland

17 – 19 April

25:th Swedish Cardiovascular Springmeeting, Gothenburg, Sweden

24 – 26 April

SFAM, Swedish Congress for General Practitioners, Uppsala, Sweden

6 May

Kardiologisten hoitajien koulutuspäivät (Training days for cardiologist nurses), Jyväskylä, Finland

14 – 16 May

Vitalis, Gothenburg, Sweden

Measurements to prevent strokes

The Primary Care Center Engelbrekt, in Ludvika is working on a new venture of a technical method that can prevent stroke in risk patients.

Engelbrekt has purchased five Zenicor-ECGs which patients in the risk group for getting a stroke can use at home. From their homes they take ECG tests of pressure with your thumbs against the device for 30 seconds twice a day.

The measurements are sent directly from the device to Engelbrekt, where the staff can read the results.

Read the interview about the initiative with biomedical analyst Åsa Carlsson and physician Jan Castenhag in DT.

(Article only avalible in Swedish)