467 research outputs found

    Telemonitoring of the Pacemakers

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    System for Detection of Vital Signals with an Embedded System

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    Rapid advancement in the field of Embedded Systems and Wireless communications has permitted development of Revolutionary Medical Monitoring Systems and thus improving the lifestyle of patients. The system captures and analyzes the ECG signals in real time through a low cost embedded development board. The system can detect cardiac abnormalities with high precision. One of the objectives at the time of building the proposed system has been to optimize the resources, memory size and communication costs

    Telecardiology and Remote Monitoring of Implanted Electrical Devices: The Potential for Fresh Clinical Care Perspectives

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    Telecardiology may help confront the growing burden of monitoring the reliability of implantable defibrillators/pacemakers. Herein, we suggest that the evolving capabilities of implanted devices to monitor patients’ status (heart rhythm, fluid overload, right ventricular pressure, oximetry, etc.) may imply a shift from strictly device-centered follow-up to perspectives centered on the patient (and patient-device interactions). Such approaches could provide improvements in health care delivery and clinical outcomes, especially in the field of heart failure. Major professional, policy, and ethical issues will have to be overcome to enable real-world implementation. This challenge may be relevant for the evolution of our health care systems

    Cardiac Telemetry Monitoring: Understanding Misutilization and How to Ameliorate

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    Inappropriate usage of cardiac telemetry in the hospital setting is a problem that plagues healthcare facilities almost ubiquitously. By writing orders for a telemetry monitor when it is not needed, providers are potentially increasing the costs of that patients stay in multiple areas. The goals of this project are to decrease telemetry monitoring misutilization, thus decreasing costs in several different areas. The plan is to create interventions, based on literature reviews of previous studies, and enact new guidelines that will lead to success of project goals. This plan could have significant impacts in the areas of patient length of stay, hold time in the Emergency Department, and telemetry usage in general, which in turn could create cost savings in all three areas. Even success in one area would bring the project proposal goals to fruition

    Ubiquitous Computing for Remote Cardiac Patient Monitoring: A Survey

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    New wireless technologies, such as wireless LAN and sensor networks, for telecardiology purposes give new possibilities for monitoring vital parameters with wearable biomedical sensors, and give patients the freedom to be mobile and still be under continuous monitoring and thereby better quality of patient care. This paper will detail the architecture and quality-of-service (QoS) characteristics in integrated wireless telecardiology platforms. It will also discuss the current promising hardware/software platforms for wireless cardiac monitoring. The design methodology and challenges are provided for realistic implementation

    Telemedicine in the Diagnosis and Managemnt of Congenital Heart Disease

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    Clinical evaluation of a wireless ECG sensor system for arrhythmia diagnostic purposes

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    In a clinical study, a novel wireless electrocardiogram (ECG) recorder has been evaluated with regard to its ability to perform arrhythmia diagnostics. As the ECG recorder will detect a "non-standard" ECG signal, it has been necessary to compare those signals to "standard" ECG recording signals in order to evaluate the arrhythmia detection ability of the new system. Simultaneous recording of ECG signals from both the new wireless ECG recorder and a conventional Holter recorder was compared by two independent cardiology specialists with regard to signal quality for performing arrhythmia diagnosis. In addition, calculated R-R intervals from the two systems were correlated. A total number of 16 patients participated in the study. It can be considered that recorded ECG signals obtained from the wireless ECG system had an acceptable quality for arrhythmia diagnosis. Some of the patients used the wireless sensor while doing physical sport activities, and the quality of the recorded ECG signals made it possible to perform arrhythmia diagnostics even under such conditions. Consequently, this makes possible improvements in correlating arrhythmias to physical activities

    Cardiology in a Digital Age: Opportunities and Challenges for e-Health: A Literature Review

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    To date, mortality rates associated with heart diseases are dangerously increasing, making them the leading cause of death globally. From this point of view, digital technologies can provide health systems with the necessary support to increase prevention and monitoring, and improve care delivery. The present study proposes a review of the literature to understand the state of the art and the outcomes of international experiences. A reference framework is defined to develop reflections to optimize the use of resources and technologies, favoring the development of new organizational models and intervention strategies. Findings highlight the potential significance of e-health and telemedicine in supporting novel solutions and organizational models for cardiac illnesses as a response to the requirements and restrictions of patients and health systems. While privacy concerns and technology-acceptance-related issues arise, new avenues for research and clinical practice emerge, with the need to study ad hoc managerial models according to the type of patient and disease

    Med-e-Tel 2014

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