Heal-A-Kit

A project that turns anyone from a first aid beginner to a first aid pro.

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Inspiration

Being certified in Standard First Aid, we personally know the great difference that quick intervention can have on a victim. For example, according to the American Heart Association, if CPR is performed in the first few minutes of cardiac arrest, it can double or triple a person's chance of survival. Unfortunately, only 46% of people who suffer Cardiac Arrest outside of hospitals get the immediate aid they need before professional help arrives. Thus was the creation of Heal-A-Kit.

What it does

Heal-A-Kit is an app that can identify serious health issues like Heart Attacks, Strokes, Seizures, etc. through the input of various symptoms and provide multiple treatment plans. Additionally, it offers users a step-by-step guide of CPR and encourages them to continue compressions until professional help arrives.

How we built it

To program our Discord bot we used Python with Discord.py, which is an API wrapper for Discord’s JS API. We chose to use Discord.py as opposed to Discord.js because Python is a more familiar language for us compared to JavaScript and their runtimes such as Node.js.

Challenges we ran into

Aside from simple syntax errors, we had an issue at first making the bots' messages aesthetically pleasing. We then realized that using embeds would be a clean way to display messages from the bot. Another challenge we ran into was with our logic in the compare command. Originally it would break out the loop once finding one condition that matches with the symptom and to combat this we created a for loop that would keep searching through our data if there were any more conditions and if the string was empty (i.e there were no conditions for the symptoms) then instead of returning an empty string it would return “No conditions match the given symptom."

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Being able to make a Discord bot for the first time was a massive accomplishment. In addition, the fact that our Discord bot is fully functional and helpful in a real life scenario is something to be proud of.

What we learned

We learnt how to use Discord’s API wrapper for Python (Discord.py) and how to use modules in Python. In addition, learning how to use object-oriented programming instead of functional programming for the Discord bot which makes the code cleaner and more efficient.

What's next for Heal-A-Kit

Currently, we have a fully functioning Discord bot, and a prototype for our mobile application. In the future, we plan on adding more health conditions and their respective symptoms and treatments to “heal” as many people as possible. We also plan on further optimizing our search bar, so that even if the scientific or exact wordings are not used, the app can detect the symptom and thus be able to help the victim.

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