Beyond Mobile Coronary Care - A Telehealthcare Case Study

Author

Anderson, J.

fYear

2007

fDate

2-3 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

265

Lastpage

281

Abstract

The following topics are presented: distribution of acute coronary deaths; percentage of cardiac deaths occur in the home and circulatory arrests that are unwitnessed; future sensing of vital signs in the home; self-care, telecare, and early intervention; communication technology; wireless noninvasive vital signs platform; wireless vital signs (WVS) platform- Holter as an example product; WVS platform advantages; motion artefact reduction; WVS platfor- vital sign inputs; noninvasive patch-based vital signs monitor; patient management; WVS platform roadmap- disposable; biosensing- patient identification; home-based vital signs monitoring; atrial fibrillation; and microcardia atrial defibrillator technical assessment.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; biosensors; health care; medical information systems; patient care; telemedicine; Holter; acute coronary deaths; atrial fibrillation; biosensor; cardiac deaths; circulatory arrests; communication technology; home-based vital sign monitoring; microcardia atrial defibrillator technical assessment; mobile coronary care; motion artefact reduction; noninvasive patch-based vital sign monitor; patient identification; patient management; self-care; telecare; telehealthcare; vital signs; wireless noninvasive vital sign platform;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Medical Electrical Devices and Technology, 2007. MEDTECH 2007. 2007 3rd Institution of Engineering and technology International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

0539-9989

Print_ISBN

978-0-86341-845-7

Type

conf

Filename

4375421