Key result
A new real-time cardiac arrhythmias tele-assistance and monitoring system met the requirements for real-time monitoring and diagnosis when evaluated on 30 patients and athletes.
Why the study?
Existing arrhythmia diagnostic tools like Holter, R.TEST, and telemetry are only partially efficient due to limited monitoring duration.
A newly developed real-time cardiac arrhythmia tele-monitoring system demonstrated adequate technical performance for long-term cardiac healthcare in an initial evaluation of 30 patients and athletes.
Supports feasibility of real-time arrhythmia tele-monitoring in small cohort; leaves open larger validation trials before clinical adoption.
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 used to test the athletes ’ cardiac status during the physical exercises. The performance results show that this system meets fully the requirements of real-time cardiac monitoring and diagnosing application and can be used as a long-term cardiac healthcare equipment.
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Vaulx et al. (2020) studied Cardiac arrhythmias (n=30). Real-time cardiac arrhythmias tele-assistance and monitoring system was evaluated. A new real-time cardiac arrhythmias tele-assistance and monitoring system met the requirements for real-time monitoring and diagnosis when evaluated on 30 patients and athletes.
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