Demist for nursing students
Nursing teaching mixes physiology, pharmacology and practice vocabulary in the same hour, often from a lecturer who uses the abbreviations as second nature. Writing a term down to look up later means missing the sentence that explained it.
What it does during a nursing lecture
Demist transcribes as your lecturer speaks, picks out the terms you are unlikely to know at your year of study, and puts a one-sentence explanation on screen while they are still talking. You keep listening instead of writing down a word to look up later.
Afterwards you have the full transcript, a glossary of every term that came up, a summary, and flashcards scheduled by spaced repetition so you revise something shortly before you would have forgotten it.
The kind of nursing terminology it explains
Oedema
Swelling caused by excess fluid trapped in the body’s tissues, commonly in the legs, ankles and feet.
Tachycardia
A resting heart rate above about 100 beats per minute in an adult.
Contraindication
A specific reason a treatment or drug should not be used in a particular patient, because it would be likely to cause harm.
Titration
Adjusting a drug dose gradually, up or down, against the patient’s response rather than giving a fixed amount.
Auscultation
Listening to sounds inside the body, usually with a stethoscope, to assess the heart, lungs or bowel.
Explanations are written for your year of study and the subject you set up, so a first year and a finalist get different levels of detail for the same word.
Placements and patient confidentiality
Demist is built for lecture theatres and seminar rooms. Do not record on placement or anywhere a patient could be heard. That is a confidentiality issue long before it is a Demist one.
It runs on your own computer
The Windows and Mac apps do the transcription, the term detection and the explanations with AI models running locally on your machine, so your lecture audio never leaves your computer. Your transcript and glossary sync to your account so you can see them on the web and keep your history if you reinstall. There is also a browser version if you would rather not install anything.
What it costs
Recording, live explanations, translation, your glossary and your flashcards are free and unlimited in the app, with no advertising. Free accounts keep lecture history for seven days. Demist Pro keeps everything, adds unlimited weekly summaries and Anki export, and costs £4.99 a month.
Built for students who find lectures harder to follow
Demist exists for nursing students with a hearing impairment, with dyslexia, who find holding attention difficult, or who are studying in English as a second language. If that is you, it is worth trying for one lecture.