Remote heart rate monitoring system based on electrocardiography

Author

Lew, C.K. ; Moghavvemi, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Malaya Univ., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

45

Lastpage

48

Abstract

A simple and low-cost remote heart rate monitoring system, causing minimal constraints to a patient, is developed. This system based on electrocardiography will enable doctors and nurses to monitor the patient´s heart rate as well as the electrocardiogram (ECG) waveform from the central monitoring system. A portable transmitter, which can be carried by the moving patient, is built. It is formed by the front-end module and the FM transmitter. The front-end module is used for ECG waveform detection from a patient´s body and signal conditioning. The signal transmitted is received by an FM radio. Two PIC16F877 are programmed for heart rate counting and ECG waveform display. Therefore, two software written in Visual Basic language are also developed in order to display the heart rate and the ECG waveform on the computer screen. A beep sound, which acts as an alarm, will be heard whenever the patient´s heart rate is abnormal.

Keywords

electrocardiography; patient monitoring; radiotelemetry; telemedicine; ECG waveform display; FM radio; FM transmitter; Visual Basic language; alarm; beep sound; central monitoring system; computer screen; doctors; electrocardiogram waveform detection; electrocardiography; front-end module; heart rate counting; moving patient; nurses; patient; patient´s heart rate; portable transmitter; signal conditioning; simple low-cost remote heart rate monitoring system; software; Computer displays; Electrocardiography; Electrodes; Heart rate; Heart rate measurement; Patient monitoring; Radio frequency; Radio transmitters; Remote monitoring; Telemetry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Research and Development, 2002. SCOReD 2002. Student Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7565-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCORED.2002.1033051

Filename

1033051