A New System Dedicated to Real-time Cardiac Arrhythmias Tele-assistance and Monitoring

: More than 60,000 people die suddenly each year in France due to cardiac arrhythmias. The current techniques used to diagnose cardiac arrhythmias such as HOLTER, R.TEST and telemetry system are partially efficient owing to the limitation of the duration of monitoring. This paper presents a new system dedicated to real-time cardiac arrhythmias teleassistance and monitoring. This system is generally composed of 4 main configurable elements: wireless ECG sensor, local access unit, remote centre server, and remote surveillance terminal. The main technical challenges of this system include three aspects: a real-time automatic ECG diagnostic algorithm, an embedded real-time multi-task operating system, and a real-time reliable telemedicine communication protocol. This paper gives our solutions to these problems and specifies the technical details. Currently, this system has been evaluated on thirty patients at the CHRU of Gabriel Montpied hospital (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and also been us...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: JUCS
• Authors: Haiying Zhou, Kun Mean Hou, Laurent Gineste, Christophe De Vaulx, Jean Ponsonnaille
• Keywords: Cardiac Arrhythmias, Cardiac Arrhythmias Teleassistance, JUCS 2006, Real-time