Wireless remote monitoring system for patients with cardiac pacemakers

This paper describes the design and implementation of a wireless remote monitoring system for patients with temporary cardiac pacemakers. The system is built around a low power cardiac pacemaker with wireless data transmission capability, used for patient monitoring in to a limited area. The proposed system is designed to be used in emergency situations, in healthcare institutes, helping to keep the patient´s heartbeat stable. The status of each heartbeat is wirelessly transmitted to a monitoring station via a wireless sensor network. The monitoring station runs a patient monitor application that receives the data from wireless sensor network and activates the alarms when these values exceed the preset limits. An experimental wireless pacemaker was implemented and tested.