Revolutionary health app by Canadian doctor on the brink of helping space missions

An app designed by a Quebec doctor is dramatically improving patient care. Now, its revolutionary technology is on the brink of saving lives in space.

An app designed by a doctor at Charles-Lemoyne hospital in Montreal is dramatically improving patient care.

Now, its revolutionary technology is on the brink of saving lives on Earth and beyond as a finalist in the Canadian Space Agency’s Deep Space Healthcare Challenge, a competition to find technologies that can improve patient care in remote areas and during deep-space missions.

The EZResus app, created by emergency physician Frédéric Lemaire, helps doctors deal with the critical first hour of resuscitation when there’s little room for maneuver or for error.

“It’s super tough in the heat of the moment to do absolutely no mistakes,” Lemaire said.

With EzResus, health practitioners no longer have to consult books, the internet and then make complicated calculations many times over on a piece of paper.

The app has all the tools needed to figure out appropriate emergency treatment for patients in the same place.

“We’re talking about drug dosing, equipment selection, some checklists for procedures, just to offload our brains so we can focus on the patient,” Lemaire said.

The app is a non-profit venture. Charles-Lemoyne hospital foundation helped set it up by providing initial funding.