Remote continuous cardiac arrhythmias detection and monitoring.
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.
Zhou
Haiying
H
Laboratoire LIMOS UMR 6158 CNRS, ISIMA, UBP Clermont-Ferrand II, France.
Hou
Kun Mean
KM
Ponsonnaille
Jean
J
Gineste
Laurent
L
Coudon
Julien
J
de Sousa
Gil
G
de Vaulx
Christophe
C
Li
Jian-Jin
JJ
Chainais
Pierre
P
Aufrère
Romuald
R
Amamra
Abdelaziz
A
Chanet
Jean-Pierre
JP
D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003199:Computer Systems; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation*