A real time, wearable ECG and continous blood pressure monitoring system for first responders

Ribeiro, David; Colunas, Márcio; Marques, Fabio A. Ferreira; Fernandes, José Maria; Cunha, João Paulo Silva

doi:10.1109/iembs.2011.6091736

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“…It can also be used to communicate with other systems using transmitter and receiver. In previous designs proposed, for short term monitoring of ECG for 10 sec or 1-2 minutes MSP430 microcontroller was used [34, 71] and for long-term monitoring TI CC2530 system [37], CC2431 [132], DSP [128], DSP chip TMS320VC5509A [133], TMS320F2812 [134], TMDX5505eZDsp/VC5505eZdsp [33], MSP430 (monitoring for 45 days) [68], MSP430F5515 [129], MSP430F1232 [43], MSP430FG439 [135], MSP430F2418 [136], MSP430F5529 [66] (monitoring for 88 h) [39], MSP430F5419A (monitoring for 48 h) [137], ATmega8 [41], ATmega328 [42], Arduino UNO (ATmega328) [47], ATmega8L [28, 31, 32], Concerto MCU [65], Revitive Device [27], PIC18LF4620 [69], Altera EP2C35 Nios II soft-core CPU based FPGA [138], ARM9 [139], ADuC842 [140], C8051F021 [141], 32-bit ARM Cortex M0 CPU (monitoring for 24 h) [30], and STM32 chip as the system controller with ARM Cortex-M3 core (monitoring for 44 h) [67] were used.…”

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An Engineering Perspective of External Cardiac Loop Recorder: A Systematic Review

Srinivasulu

Sriraam

2016

Journal of Medical Engineering

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External cardiac loop recorder (ELR) is a kind of ECG monitoring system that records cardiac activities of a subject continuously for a long time. When the heart palpitations are not the frequent and nonspecific character, it is difficult to diagnose the disease. In such a case, ELR is used for long-term monitoring of heart signal of the patient. But the cost of ELR is very high. Therefore, it is not prominently available in developing countries like India. Since the design of ELR includes the ECG electrodes, instrumentation amplifier, analog to digital converter, and signal processing unit, a comparative review of each part of the ELR is presented in this paper in order to design a cost effective, low power, and compact kind of ELR. This review will also give different choices available for selecting and designing each part of the ELR system. Finally, the review will suggest the better choice for designing a cost effective external cardiac loop recorder that helps to make it available even for rural people in India.

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Section: Designing Of External Cardiac Loop Recordermentioning

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An Engineering Perspective of External Cardiac Loop Recorder: A Systematic Review

Srinivasulu

Sriraam

2016

Journal of Medical Engineering

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“…We used the wearable RTABP system (Ribeiro et al, 2011) to acquire ECG and PPG at a 500-Hz sampling frequency, transmitted to the smartphone using a Bluetooth connection. Although this equipment was developed in house, the system is prepared to collect ECG signals from other equipment.…”

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“…Recent technological developments in the areas of biomedical sensors, mobile devices, and wireless telecommunications allow new solutions to measure, communicate, and process information in real time and anywhere (Brás, Fernandes, & Cunha, 2013;Colunas, Fernandes, Oliveira, & Cunha, 2011;Ribeiro, Colunas, Marques, Fernandes, & Cunha, 2011). Good examples are mobile devices, in particular the smartphones that are becoming a ubiquitous resource, with a huge potential in the psychology field.…”

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“…BeMonitored intends to explore the use of mobile and wearable systems in the assessment and study of psychological disorders outside the lab. BeMonitored can deliver context-aware stimuli (e.g., time, GPS location) based on both audio and video, while monitoring both behavior (e.g., face motion and activity using the accelerometer) and physiological variables (e.g., ECG, as in the present configuration using an external wearable device; Ribeiro et al, 2011).…”

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BeMonitored: Monitoring psychophysiology and behavior using Android in phobias

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It is of the utmost importance that researchers can recreate, as accurately as possible, real-life conditions in psychological studies. However, that is not always possible. Given that phobias are rather context-specific, their study is the ideal candidate to assess the feasibility of using a mobile and wearable device for obtaining physiological and behavioral data. In this article, we propose BeMonitored, a smartphone-based solution to support more ecologically valid monitoring of psychological experiments. BeMonitored delivers customizable, specific context-dependent audiovisual stimuli and uses external resources connected via Bluetooth or a smartphone's own resources, while capturing the participant's behavior, physiology, and environment. We used BeMonitored in a spider phobia case study and showed that spider phobics differed from control participants in face motion, captured by the smartphone camera. Moreover, our results also revealed heart rate differences between spider and neutral stimuli in phobic participants. The presented results emphasize the usefulness of smartphones for phobia monitoring. Considering their intrinsic characteristics, smartphones may constitute the natural evolution from the lab to more realistic contexts.

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“…Recently, finger cuff method has also become equally popular like the conventional pressure cuff method. Due to the advances in technologies like sensor and wireless communication systems, other methods including real time monitoring of blood pressure are being researched widely [17].…”

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Study of nanosensor systems for hypertension associated cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disorders

Ramasamy

Varadan

2015

SPIE Proceedings

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Hypertension and hypertension associated cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases are on a rise. At-least 970 million people in the world and Seventy percent of the American adults are affected by high blood pressure, also known as hypertension. Even though blood pressure monitoring systems are readily available, the number of people being affected has been increasing. Most of the blood pressure monitoring systems require cumbersome approaches. Even the noninvasive techniques have not lowered the number of people affected nor did at-least increase the user base of these systems. Uncontrolled or untreated hypertension may lead to various cerebrovascular disorders including stroke, hypertensive crisis, lacunar infarcts intracerebral damage, microaneurysm, and cardiovascular disorders including heart failure, myocardial infraction, and ischemic heart disease. Hypertension is rated as the one of the most important causes of premature death in spite of the technical advances in biomedical technology. This paper briefs a review of the widely adopted blood pressure monitoring methods, research techniques, and finally, proposes a concept of implementing nanosensors and wireless communication for real time non-invasive blood pressure monitoring.

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A real time, wearable ECG and continous blood pressure monitoring system for first responders

Cited by 15 publications

References 18 publications

An Engineering Perspective of External Cardiac Loop Recorder: A Systematic Review

An Engineering Perspective of External Cardiac Loop Recorder: A Systematic Review

BeMonitored: Monitoring psychophysiology and behavior using Android in phobias

Study of nanosensor systems for hypertension associated cerebrovascular and cardiovascular disorders

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