Long term continuous collection of high resolution ECG signals from a coronary care unit

Author

Legarreta, I. Romero ; Reed, M.J. ; Watson, J.N. ; Addison, P.S. ; Grubb, N. ; Clegg, G.R. ; Robertson, C.E. ; Fox, Kaa

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng. & Comput., Napier Univ. of Edinburgh, UK

fYear

2003

fDate

21-24 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

407

Lastpage

409

Abstract

Cardiovascular disease is the commonest cause of death in Western society. For this reason much effort has been dedicated to the study of its origins, prevention and treatment. Our group has a specific interest in the analysis of the electrocardiogram (ECG) in life threatening cardiac arrhythmias and its antecedents, with a view to providing diagnostic tools and information to facilitate patient resuscitation. For development and testing of analytical tools we require a relevant library of real ECG signals. In this paper we describe the acquisition and storage of a continuous collection of ECG signals obtained from the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK.

Keywords

cardiovascular system; data acquisition; electrocardiography; medical diagnostic computing; medical information systems; Coronary Care Unit; Edinburgh; Royal Infirmary; UK; cardiac arrhythmias; cardiovascular disease; diagnostic tools; electrocardiogram; high resolution ECG signals; patient resuscitation; signal acquisition; signal storage; Cardiology; Cardiovascular diseases; Continuous wavelet transforms; Databases; Electrocardiography; Frequency; Interference; Signal analysis; Signal resolution; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Cardiology, 2003

ISSN

0276-6547

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8170-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIC.2003.1291178

Filename

1291178