A remote access ecg monitoring system - biomed 2009.
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2009-04-16
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We have developed a remotely accessible telemedicine system for monitoring a patient s electrocardiogram ECG The system consists of an ECG recorder mounted on chest electrodes and a physician s laptop personal computer This ECG recorder is designed with a variable gain instrumentation amplifier a low power 8 bit single chip microcomputer two 128KB EEPROMs and 2 4 GHz low transmit power mobile telephone When the physician wants to monitor the patient s ECG he she calls directly from the laptop PC to the ECG recorder s phone and the recorder sends the ECG to the computer The electrode mounted recorder continuously samples the ECG Additionally when the patient feels a heart discomfort he she pushes a data transmission switch on the recorder and the recorder sends the recorded ECG waveforms of the two prior minutes and for two minutes after the switch is pressed The physician can display and monitor the data on the computer s liquid crystal display
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Facility-based health worker, Access to information or data, Continuity of care, Timeliness of care, Prototype, Non-communicable diseases, Cardiovascular disease, Chronic care, Disease management, Data collection and reporting, Surveillance, Raw data, Physiologic Biosensors