This is a Flutter package -

CLINIC COUNTER: Respiratory Rate / Pulse Rate.

Features

This widget helps health workers to measure respiratory and pulse rates in patients.

Getting started

Expected scenario here is that the user has a mobile device with an app including this widget.

The user starts the stopwatch, then can focus entirely on the patient, observing breaths/pulses and for each one clicking on the large button (large so health worker can rest digit there and not need to look).

The widget calculates and presents the rate per min on an ongoing basis.

The user is alerted with a tone at 30 seconds and 60 seconds, at which points the rate can be read off. No need for clinician/nurse to follow time or to do any calculations, only to click on observation of each event(breath/pulse).

Its simple, but found to be very useful.

Usage

Just include

Counter();

  

If you want to programmatically extract the rate, you can pass a key for the widget and then query its current state for the "ratePerMinute" double value

GlobalKey<CounterState> key = GlobalKey<CounterState>()

Counter(key)
 

IconButton(icon: Icon(Icons.refresh),
          onPressed: () => print(key.currentState?.ratePerMinute.toString()))

Or you could modify Counter to pass a listener function which is updated at every cycle.

Additional information

We intend to offer other simple widgets which might be useful in building applications for healthworkers.

We would be interested in hear from anyone using this or having other ideas for potentially useful healthcare widgets.