Title :
Personal Heart Monitoring System Using Smart Phones To Detect Life Threatening Arrhythmias
Author :
Leijdekkers, Peter ; Gay, Valerie
Author_Institution :
Fac. of IT, Univ. of Technol., Sydney, NSW
Abstract :
This paper discusses a personalized heart monitoring system using smart phones and wireless (bio) sensors. We combine ubiquitous computing with mobile health technology to monitor the wellbeing of high risk cardiac patients. The smart phone analyses in real-time the ECG data and determines whether the person needs external help. We focus on two life threatening arrhythmias: ventricular fibrillation (VF) and ventricular tachycardia (VT). The smart phone can automatically alert the ambulance and pre assigned caregivers when a VF/VT arrhythmia is detected. The system can be personalized to the needs and requirements of the patient. It can be used to give advice (e.g. exercise more) or to reassure the patient when the bio-sensors and environmental data are within predefined ranges
Keywords :
electric sensing devices; electrocardiography; notebook computers; patient monitoring; telemedicine; ubiquitous computing; ECG; high risk cardiac patients; life threatening arrhythmias; mobile health technology; personal heart monitoring system; smart phones; ubiquitous computing; ventricular fibrillation; ventricular tachycardia; wireless biosensors; Biosensors; Electrocardiography; Heart; Intelligent sensors; Mobile computing; Patient monitoring; Sensor systems; Smart phones; Ubiquitous computing; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2006. CBMS 2006. 19th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Salt Lake City, UT
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2517-1
DOI :
10.1109/CBMS.2006.128
