Pervasive Cardiac Monitoring System for Remote Continuous Heart Care

Heart diseases are the serious health threats to human beings. Traditional cardiac monitoring systems are unsatisfactory to prevent the sudden death events caused by heart diseases. A pervasive cardiac monitoring system is thus developed, which can provide a real-time continuous cardiac care and arrhythmias detection service for any person at any time in any place. This paper gives a detailed description about the architecture and operation fashion of this system. This system has been tested on more than 30 patients in a hospital and more than 10 sportsmen in a training field, and also compared with the HP telemetry system. Concerning the clinical off-line arrhythmia detection, this system has similar results with the HP telemetry, but concerning the outdoor on-line ambulatory arrhythmia detection, this system has better performance results. The evaluation results prove that this system meets the requirements of real-time cardiac monitoring and diagnosing applications.