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MUW UCC 1st Chair and Department of Cardiology join the TeleCheck-AF Project

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The TeleCheck-AF remote screening Project was initiated by Dr. Dominik Linz, from the Department of Cardiology at Maastricht University Medical Centre, together with Nikki Pluymaekers, also from Maastricht University Medical Centre, and Jeroen Hendriks, from Flinders University in Adelaide. The MUW UCC 1st Chair and Department of Cardiology, headed by Prof. Grzegorz Opolski, is the first clinic in Poland to become a TeleCheck-AF center.

The FibriCheck App is already being used in m-health but Dr. Linz discovered that it offers an ideal solution for remote monitoring during COVID. Doctors are able to continue treating AF patients safely, without them having to come to the hospital using the FibriCheck App. It is a CE marked and validated app connected to a cloud to detect atrial fibrillation and monitor heart rate. The advantage of an app-based approach is that just a mobile phone is needed. A patient’s smartphone is transformed into a rate-and-rhythm detector and informs whether the heart rate is fast or slow. This is exactly the information cardiologists need for teleconsultations. As a TeleCheck-AF Project center, UCC MUW Cardiology Outpatient Clinic patients will be able to benefit from the use of the FibriCheck App.

The Telecheck-AF Project is collecting data from all its centers using the FibriCheck App to conduct a retrospective analysis.  As a member of the international and multicentre TeleCheck-AF Project, MUW will also contribute date. The lead researcher from Medical University of Warsaw is Dr. Piotr Lodziński from the Department of the Electrocardiology.  

For more information about the project, visit the European Society of Cardiology Website:

https://www.escardio.org/Education/COVID-19-and-Cardiology/m-health-app...

For more information about the TeleCheck-AF Project, visit http://www.telecheck-af.com/ and follow #TeleCheckAF on Twitter.