• DocumentCode
    2479241
  • Title

    Preferred patterns of diastolic timed vibrations for pre-hospitalization treatment of acute coronary ischemia

  • Author

    Kajbafzadeh, B. ; Marzencki, M. ; Alavi, N. ; Khosrow-Khavar, F. ; Tavakolian, K. ; Menon, C. ; Kaminska, B.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Eng. Sci., Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC, Canada
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011
  • Firstpage
    2480
  • Lastpage
    2483
  • Abstract
    This paper presents and evaluates preferred patterns of vibrations and active breaking techniques for the Diastolic Timed Vibrator (DTV). DTV uses low frequency mechanical vibrations applied to the chest to help in clot dissolution in pre-hospitalization treatment of acute coronary ischemia. In this work, we argue that random and ramp type vibration patterns increase the performance of the DTV method. Furthermore, we present results for various methods of vibration stopping aiming at reduction of vibration overspill into the systole of heart cycle of the patient.
  • Keywords
    biomedical equipment; cardiology; diseases; patient treatment; vibrations; active breaking techniques; acute coronary ischemia; chest; clot dissolution; diastolic timed vibrations; diastolic timed vibrator; heart systole cycle; low frequency mechanical vibrations; prehospitalization treatment; ramp type vibration; random type vibration; Digital TV; Electrocardiography; Force; Heart; Myocardium; Resonant frequency; Vibrations; Acute Disease; Diastole; Emergency Medical Services; Humans; Myocardial Ischemia;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Boston, MA
  • ISSN
    1557-170X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4121-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1557-170X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090688
  • Filename
    6090688