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
fDate :
Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011
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;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4121-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090688