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A Novel Digital Platform for a Monitored Home-based Cardiac Rehabilitation Program
Published on: April 19, 2019
Innovative Wearable Platform for Synchronized Biosignals Acquisition: A Proof of Concept in a Cuff-Less Blood
Alessio Serrani1,2, Andrea Aliverti1,2
1Dipartimento di ElettronicaInformazione e BioingegneriaPolitecnico di Milano Milan 20133 Italy.
Objective:
This study evaluates the performance of a fully wireless multi-node wearable platform equipped with a sub-microsecond synchronization engine in a clinically relevant scenario. The prototype system is used in a cuff-less blood pressure monitoring application, based on pulse arrival time derived from synchronized ECG and PPG signals.
Methods:
The system integrates a custom 2.4 GHz synchronization protocol and Bluetooth Low Energy for data transmission. Nineteen healthy subjects completed a treadmill protocol designed to induce transient hemodynamic perturbations representative of daily-life physical activities. PAT values extracted from ECG and PPG signals acquired before and after exercise were compared with reference systolic blood pressure (SBP) measurements, intermittently sampled using a validated oscillometric device. The experimental protocol and analysis were designed to reflect realistic home monitoring scenarios, including limited user interaction during measurements.
Results:
Immediately after exercise, significant deviations from baseline were observed in computed PAT ([Formula: see text]) and SBP ([Formula: see text]). PAT recovery trend was accurately modeled by a mono-exponential function ([Formula: see text]). Recovery indices derived from PAT and SBP were strongly correlated (Pearson's [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]) with high concordance ([Formula: see text]), although Bland-Altman analysis revealed subject-specific variability (LoA: -34.36% / 37.53%).
Conclusion:
The proposed platform enables continuous synchronized multi-signal acquisition for extracting PAT dynamics and tracking blood pressure fluctuations under realistic home-monitoring conditions, with minimal additional user interaction. These results support the operational feasibility of wirelessly synchronized architectures for cardiovascular monitoring in daily-life scenarios, promoting integration into remote health assessment workflows beyond traditional intermittent cuff-based measurements.
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