About Nystagmocatcher

Nystagmocatcher® is a mobile phone adaptor and a medicine technical device for the europeen health care market. The device is CE/MDR certified and registered with the Swedish Medical Products Agency.

The devise i compatible with all IOS Apple mobile mobile phones and with majority of android mobile mobiles. For android mobile phones with more than 4 camera lenses picture tend to be blurry when using a single lens with the Nystagmocatcher.

Nystagmocatcher illuminates one of the eyes and prevents it from focusing. Clamp it over the camera lens of your mobile phone. Hold Nystagmocatcher against your right eye and record a video of 4,5 minutes lengh. At the same time, you should carry out eight examinations. Use another sound source than your mobile phone – a computer, tablet or another phone – to play our instructions sound file. The audio instructions will guide you through a standardized investigation schedule. Your doctor or physioterapist may give you another investigation schedule than ours.

After you have finished the video recording the video clip will

be saved in your mobile phone. The video clip will contain diagnostic information about your sense of balance. It is a document of your dizziness period or vertigo spell.

Carry out the examination during dizzy spells or periods of dizziness and loss of balance, such as a period of positional Vertigo and BPPV. It is important that you are unable to focuse your gaze during the tests. The audio file will help you remember when to keep the filmed eye extra open and at the same time to close the not filmed eye or cover it with an eye patch during the hole investigation.

Despite the fact that scientific studies have established that over half of all dizziness and balance disorders are due to disturbances in the sense of balance, examinations of the sense of balance are not carried out in helth care or the examinations are of poor quality. Making eye movements visible and analysing their patterns is the only way to understand balance impulses and balance disorders.

However, general health care often doesn’t have the equipment to elucidate eye movements and personnel might not be experienced in interpreting eye movements.

This is something we want to change. With a Nystagmocatcher and your mobile phone, you own the most important diagnostic dizzy tools yourself. In the case your doctor doesn’t test your sense of balance, you have to do it yourself! The diagnostics are most reliable if you do an examination and video recording exactly at the same time when you experience dizziness.

Nystagmocatcher is intended to be used with a mobile phone to document diagnostic eye movements in adults with ongoing dizziness or balance disorders.

In order not to risk a delay in the treatment of a stroke or other life-threatening conditions, the intended use is not the very first onset of illness but recurrent attacks and episodes of similar dizziness and balance symptoms.

Conduct a standardised dizziness examination that includes tests when your head is still, gaze direction tests, positional tests and head shaking tests. Play our instructions via another audio source and simultaneously make a video recording. The purpose of the Nystagmocatcher is to capture diagnostic eye movements.

Filmed eye movements during an attack of dizziness or an episode of ongoing position-related dizziness provide reliable and detailed information about the impulses of the sense of balance at the time of the examination.

We can evaluate the movement of the recorded eye and understand which examination you are carrying out at that time, we can make a statement about the function of the sense of balance from the time of the examination. It will help us even more if you verbaly add on the video clip “now there is a lot of dizziness” or make a moaning sound when you are experiencing a lot of discomfort.

We cannot comment on the impulses of your sense of balance before and after the examination. For medico-legal reasons, our diagnostics are limited to the video-recorded eye movements and to the verk period of time when you did the examination. Therefore you should therefore try to do it when you experience a lot of problems.

We do not assess your previous medical history, but we are interested in knowing what symptoms you had at the time of the examination.

To create a video clip, you should be able to do the following 

For help with interpreting recorded eye movements, diagnosis and treatment advice, you should also be able to

if you have signs of a life-threatening illness, such as suspected acute brain disease or heart attack. 

Go to an emergency department if you have sudden dizziness and loss of balance in combination with any of the following symptoms

Symbol description on the product

Waste sorting

The light source can be dismantled and should be sorted as electronic waste.
When this has been done, Nystagmocatcher is then sorted as plastic waste.

Report accidents and incidents

All serious accidents and incidents involving the product should be reported to the manufacturer and to the Swedish Medical Products Agency.

Manufacturer

Vertigocatcher Diagnostics AB, Gammelgårdsvägen 48 floor 6. 112 64 Stockholm, Sweden

www.vertigocatcher.se www.vertigocatcher.com