title: Remote continuous cardiac arrhythmias detection and monitoring.
abstract: The current techniques used to diagnose cardiac arrhythmias such as Holter, Rtest and telemetry systems are partially efficient because they are limited either in time or in space. In this paper, a platform dedicated to the real-time remote continuous cardiac arrhythmias detection and monitoring is proposed. Such a platform allows to improve the accuracy and the efficiency of the diagnostic of ventricular tachycardia among the high-risk patients and enables the implantation of ICD to prevent sudden death. The new method allows the patient to lead a normal life while being remotely monitored in real-time by an ambulatory wireless ECG sensor. When a cardiac arrhythmia is detected a message including a sequence of ECG signals and the patient's images (indoors only) is sent to a remote surveillance server. According to the gravity of the symptom, the cardiologist can intervene in real time or later. The system has been evaluated on some ten patients with regard to heartbeat and cardiac rhythm disturbance. The real-time results are similar to those offered by HP telemetry systems.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire LIMOS UMR 6158 CNRS, ISIMA, UBP Clermont-Ferrand II, France.
authors.forename: Haiying
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Kun Mean
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ponsonnaille
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gineste
authors.forename: Julien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Coudon
authors.forename: Gil
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: de Sousa
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: de Vaulx
authors.forename: Jian-Jin
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chainais
authors.forename: Romuald
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Aufrère
authors.forename: Abdelaziz
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Amamra
authors.forename: Jean-Pierre
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Chanet
mesh_terms: D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003199:Computer Systems; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation*