ECG Heartline

Send in an ECG and Have it Interpreted

Details of this Service
Who is this Service for?
    * Doctors
    * Patients
How do I use this Service?
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Details of this Service

www.webhealthcentre.com brings a special service for Cardiac Patients.

Heartline offers Cardiology consultation and ECG Interpretation to the registered users of webhealthcenter.com. Send in details regarding cardiac problems in the form provided. Scanned ECG images can be attached to the problem details and submitted through this service.

Users are requested to respect the time of the doctors and send in genuine queries and ECGs.

If a clearly scanned ECG is attached as a jpg image to the symptom form, the specialists will provide an interpretation and advise you on the implications.

Who is this service for?

• Doctors:

  This service can be availed of by general practitioners and other doctors in small hospitals and polyclinics who have no direct access to a Cardiologist’s opinion. Doctors can send in detailed patient information in the symptom form provided and may also attach an ECG for an expert’s interpretation.

• Patients:

  Those desirous of obtaining a second opinion could use this service to do so.

The ECG:

An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a test that records the electrical activity of the heart. Though this is not a definitive test for heart problems, it is a valuable one.

Looking at your ECG a Cardiologist can detect:

• Abnormalities of your heart rhythm.
• If you have had a heart attack recently or some time ago.
• Whether your heart has become enlarged
• If your heart is working under strain and stress.

Cardiology Consultation:

Has your general physician advised an ECG test and would you like to know more about it? Have you got some Symptoms that you think may be associated with your heart? Would you like advice on your cardiac problem? Send in your queries with as much information as possible in the Cardiology symptom form provided in this section to get advice from cardiologists.

How do I use this service?

The Consultation Form:

1. If you are not a registered user, you have to register, by clicking on the link below and filling in a simple form. If you are a registered user click on the link below and login using your User id and Password.

2. When you log in, your inbox appears. Click on the New Consultation button provided.

3. The Cardiology symptom form opens. Fill in as many details as you know. Doctors would also like to know the patient’s name and address, as it will be helpful if they tend to use this system for chronic care.

4. Though the symptom form appears small, if you click on the “ View” Checkbox provided near each heading, the form expands to elicit detailed information with regard to each symptom.

5. Only a few fields are mandatory and these are easy to fill. But it would be preferable to fill in as many details as possible, as it will help the cardiologists to understand the nature of the problem more accurately.

6. Submit the filled in form.It gets listed in the inbox and the status is “Unanswered”. Please check back after a few hours of submission of the query.As soon as the specialists answer the query, the status changes to “ Answered” and you can click on the Consultation Number link and view the doctor’s opinion.

Attaching an ECG:

You can submit a consultation with or without an ECG. If you want to attach an ECG, this is the procedure:

1. You should have a clear printout of a 12 lead ECG.

2. You must scan this printout on a flatbed scanner. If you do not have a scanner at home, you can scan this printout at an Internet browsing/computer data entry centre. Please ensure that the scanned picture looks clear with the graph in the background showing clearly. Save this scanned picture as a .jpg image.Load this image on your computer/ floppy.

3. After you log in through this service and fill in the Cardiac Consultation form, please click on upload ECG button, found at the bottom of the form.

4. Browse and choose the .jpg image of your ECG. Click on the “Upload” button.

5. Now your ECG has been submitted for interpretation.

6. When your consultation shows” Answered” status, you can click on your Consultation number and view a doctor’s reply box with an interpretation of your ECG.