How Does COVID-19 Affect the Heart?

How Does COVID-19 Affect the Heart?

Covid-19 may cause your heart rate to become faster in response to fever or inflammation, as your heart works harder to pump more blood around your body to fight the infection. Patients with COVID-19 are at an increased risk of developing a wide range if cardiovascular disorders including cerebrovascular disorders, dysrhythmias, ischemic and non-ischemic heart disease, pericarditis, myocarditis, heart failure, and thromboembolic disease.

Covid can cause the lungs to become inflamed or scarred, the right ventricle will then have to work harder to deliver blood to the lungs. This strain can impair the ventricle, causing right sided heart failure with fluid backing up into the liver and kidneys. It can also cause swelling and fluid accumulation in the legs and abdomen creating discomfort.

Covid survivors

Covid survivors are 60% more likely to suffer a heart attack within a year of beating the virus even if their infection was mild or major studies warn. Those who had beat Covid were 55% more likely to suffer a heart complication compared to the uninfected.

How can coremed help? 

Coremed is a lightweight patient monitoring device which captures patients data in real time, no matter the location. Coremed records ECG, Capnography, BP, Pulse Oximetry, Heart Rate and Temperature allowing for an overall view of the patient status, allowing for constant monitoring and better insights into possible complications that may come along while under examination.

Due to the deverity if Covid and how quickly a patient can deteriorate, the Coremed device provides clinicians with real time clinical observations. The device is used in conjunction with the Metix remote monitoring platform, which provides a dashboard to manage users and Coremed devices by receiving patient details and medical data that generates reports from data. Authorising the clinician multiple views over many patients within real time, meaning they can act faster upon the activity they see on the monitoring platform.