A low cost multichannel central ECG monitoring system

Author

Joshi, Sunil Dinanath

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Instrum., WIEECT, Bombay, India

fYear

1995

fDate

15-18 Feb 1995

Abstract

The paper discusses a Multipatient Central ECG Monitoring System using PC-AT 386; realised at WIEECT Medical Electronics laboratory by the author. The monitor uses pulse width modulated data transmitted from the unit near the patient´s bed and the data is retrieved at 8255 (parallel port) on a DIO card. It is demultiplexed and decoded using software alone. Hence no demultiplexer or A/D converter is required. The synchronization and resetting of the hardware is also done by software using the same DIO card. So the reliability of the system is quite high

Keywords

biomedical electronics; computerised monitoring; electrocardiography; medical signal processing; microcomputer applications; patient monitoring; pulse width modulation; DIO card; Multipatient Central ECG Monitoring System; PC-AT 386; WIEECT Medical Electronics laboratory; hardware; low cost multichannel central ECG monitoring system; parallel port; pulse width modulated data; reliability; resetting; software; synchronization; Biomedical monitoring; Costs; Displays; Hardware; Information retrieval; Optical pulses; Patient monitoring; Pulse width modulation; Signal processing; Space vector pulse width modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1995 and 14th Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society of India. An International Meeting, Proceedings of the First Regional Conference., IEEE

Conference_Location

New Delhi

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2711-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RCEMBS.1995.533065

Filename

533065