Title :
Telemedicine: remote monitoring of cardiac patients
Author :
de Azevedo, D.F.G. ; de Moura, E.P. ; DeCastro, M.C.F. ; DeCastro, F.C.C. ; da Rocha, M.F.
Author_Institution :
Sci. & Technol. Res. Inst., Pontifical Catholic Univ., Porto Alegre, Brazil
Abstract :
This paper presents a telemedicine system capable of remote monitoring cardiac patients. It includes a device which transmits the patient ECG to a monitoring center using the short message service (SMS) and data service of a TDMA cellular network. The device works in conjunction with a cellular phone handset, allowing mobility to the patient.
Keywords :
biomedical telemetry; cellular radio; echocardiography; telemedicine; time division multiple access; ECG; SMS; TDMA cellular network; arrhythmia; cardiac patients; cellular phone handset; data service; remote monitoring; short message service; telemedicine; telemonitoring; Biomedical monitoring; Cellular phones; Electrocardiography; Hardware; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Low pass filters; Message service; Patient monitoring; Remote monitoring; Telemedicine;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7789-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1279571
