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A Wearable ECG Monitoring System for Resource-Constrained Settings

A Wearable ECG Monitoring System for Resource-Constrained Settings
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Author(s): Uma Arun (Center for Medical Electronics and Computing, M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, India)and Natarajan Sriraam (Center for Medical Electronics and Computing, M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, India)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 16
Source title: Biomedical and Clinical Engineering for Healthcare Advancement
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): N. Sriraam (Ramaiah Institute of Technology, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0326-3.ch001

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Abstract

Recent advancement in wearable technology has created a huge impact in healthcare delivery and clinical diagnosis. Remote access of physiological, vital parameters from patients and improvement in their day-to-day quality of life were the significant indicators due to this availability of wearable technology. Though wearable physiological monitoring systems for long-term monitoring of Electro cardiogram (ECG) were developed at high-cost involvement, there is a huge need for such technology for resource-constrained settings, at a low cost. This chapter suggests a wearable ECG monitoring system by making use of single channel textile sensors for screening of cardiac episodes. The proposed Cardiac signal framework (CARDIF) with chest textile-based sensors ensures the required qualitative signal for clinical assessment and the evaluation of fidelity measures confirms its suitability for early screening of cardiac episodes. The proposed CARDIF framework involves low-cost design without sacrificing the required clinical diagnosis requirement and can be extended for long-term, continuous monitoring in resource-constrained settings.

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