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Available for FREE Download! Cincinnati Children’s Hospital offers this interactive, 3D app to educate families about the heart:
The app includes an interactive model of a normal heart, in addition to interactive models of the following defects and their associated repairs:
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Coarctation of the Aorta
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
- Transposition of the Great Arteries
- Ventricular Septal Defect
- Patent Ductus Arteriosus
- Atrioventricular Septal Defect
- Interrupted Aortic Arch
- Total Anomalous Venous Return
- Truncus Arteriosus
Heartpedia
Mobile App
Educating Families About the Heart
3D Pediatric Heart Anomalies and Defects
Congenital heart defects can be difficult to visualize and explain. The Heartpedia mobile app provides a variety of anatomically-correct, three-dimensional interactive heart models. Healthcare providers may use these models as visual learning tools to help educate patients and families on specific defects and repairs. The Heartpedia app may also be helpful to patients and families who want to learn more on their own, or to share the details of a defect with concerned friends and family. CCHMC believes that supplying the right information and tools ultimately results in the highest level of care and the best outcomes.App users can learn more about each defect through the following interactions:
- Toggle between normal, defect, and repair views
- View exterior and various interior heart planes/slices
- Pan, rotate, and zoom
- Watch video animation with audio description of each defect and repair
- Turn on/off labels of key heart structures
- Read a detailed description of the defect
