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Enabling Heart Self-Monitoring for All and for AAL—Portable Device within a Complete Telemedicine System

Title:
Enabling Heart Self-Monitoring for All and for AAL—Portable Device within a Complete Telemedicine System
Authors:
Bleda, Andres L.  
Melgarejo Meseguer, Francisco Manuel  
Gimeno Blanes, Francisco Javier  
García-Alberola, Arcadi  
Rojo-Álvarez, José Luis  
Corral, Javier  
Ruiz, Ricardo
Maestre, Rafael  
Editor:
MDPI
Department:
Departamentos de la UMH::Ingeniería de Comunicaciones
Issue Date:
2019-09
URI:
https://hdl.handle.net/11000/30605
Abstract:
During the last decades there has been a rapidly growing elderly population and the number of patients with chronic heart-related diseases has exploded. Many of them (such as those with congestive heart failure or some types of arrhythmias) require close medical supervision, thus imposing a big burden on healthcare costs in most western economies. Specifically, continuous or frequent Arterial Blood Pressure (ABP) and electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring are important tools in the follow-up of many of these patients. In this work, we present a novel remote non-ambulatory and clinically validated heart self-monitoring system, which allows ABP and ECG monitoring to effectively identify clinically relevant arrhythmias. The system integrates digital transmission of the ECG and tensiometer measurements, within a patient-comfortable support, easy to recharge and with a multi-function software, all of them aiming to adapt for elderly people. The main novelty is that both physiological variables (ABP and ECG) are simultaneously measured in an ambulatory environment, which to our best knowledge is not readily available in the clinical market. Different processing techniques were implemented to analyze the heart rhythm, including pause detection, rhythm alterations and atrial fibrillation, hence allowing early detection of these diseases. Our results achieved clinical quality both for in-lab hardware testing and for ambulatory scenario validations. The proposed active assisted living (AAL) Sensor-based system is an end-to-end multidisciplinary system, fully connected to a platform and tested by the clinical team from beginning to end
Keywords/Subjects:
ECG
arterial blood pressure
sensors
e-health
portability
atrial fibrillation detector
QRS detector Sensors
Knowledge area:
CDU: Ciencias aplicadas: Ingeniería. Tecnología
Type of document:
application/pdf
Access rights:
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3390/s19183969
Appears in Collections:
Artículos Ingeniería Comunicaciones



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