JP's Internal Medicine Page

I'm an internal medicine doctor working as a nocturnist. Sometimes I like to make things with python but most of my life is medicine and raising my young family. I have many posts about teaching my toddler to read at a younger age than is probably wise.

Predict Survival in Advanced Cancer

Other Things I've Made:
ECG Viewer Bobcat Mountain Text Adventure Demo

Medical Blogs I Like:
Dr. Smith's ECG Blog ECG Maven The Number Needed to Treat

Blog Postings:

Saturday, April 18, 2015

ECG Program coming soon

I am currently working on an ECG viewing project.  The goal was to make a program where one would load an ECG, scrool/zoom in, use calipers to measure things and have buttons that could give useful info on how to measure things like rate, axis, LVH, ischemic regions, etc... It would also have a challenge mode where you had to identify things correctly (like ECG Maven).

Currently I have broken it into two projects, one is complete and is the basic viewer where you can load an ECG and use the calipers and click buttons to help interpret it but has no "Quiz mode".  I am trying to get it into an executable that will be more easily installed rather than having to have people install python and pygame to run it.  For some reason I haven't yet gotten it to work, although I have done this in the past with another game I made (a multiplication game for my sister which I might put up here someday too).

The "Quiz Mode" version needs some work, because ideally I would like to make it so that the user can design their own quizzes.  Currently I just have it set up with basic proof of concept quiz that I made.

I will be done with a week of nights this Monday and will have some days to tinker so hopefully I'll have the "Basic ECG Viewer" program available in a couple of days.

PS:  Originally I had planned on incorporating detailed instructions on how to learn to read ECGs.  As I worked on this I soon realized how much work this would take and there are already lots of better resources out there to teach this.  That's why there are a couple of posts on the basics of leads and background boxes which I thought I might as well post because maybe they will help somebody.

Any questions, comments, critiques? I'd love to hear from people at jpmax7 at gmail.com