一个可穿戴的多传感器阵列可以在家庭护理中记录心脏声音
Noemi Giordano1, Samanta Rosati1, Gabriella Balestra1
1Department of Electronics and Telecommunications and PoliToBIOMedLab, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy.
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
|July 14, 2023
概括
一个新的灵活的多传感器阵列允许未经验的用户记录高质量的心脏声音和心电图,用于远程慢性心力衰竭 (CHF) 监测. 这种可穿戴技术很快就能为心血管疾病患者提供有效的家庭监测.
科学领域:
- 生物医学工程 生物医学工程
- 心脏病学 心脏病学
- 可穿戴技术可穿戴技术
背景情况:
- 家庭监测对于预防慢性心力衰竭 (CHF) 患者急性发作至关重要.
- 现有的远程监控可穿戴解决方案是有限的,特别是在声心图 (PCG) 信号采集方面.
- 对于非专业用户来说,准确地定位PCG信号的听力镜具有挑战性,阻碍了家庭监测.
研究的目的:
- 开发一个灵活的多传感器阵列,以便用户友好地同时采集心电图 (ECG) 和心电图 (PCG) 信号.
- 评估开发的设备的可用性和信号质量,用于在家监测慢性心力衰竭患者.
主要方法:
- 设计了一种灵活的印刷电路板 (PCB),集成48个麦克风,用于高分辨率的心声录制.
- 包含三个用于ECG记录的电极和一个磁性惯性测量单元 (MI MU).
- 在42名没有经验的志愿者身上验证了设备的可用性,评估了信号质量和适用于不同类型的身体.
主要成果:
- 所有42名志愿者都成功地记录了良好的至优质的心脏声音和心电图信号.
- 多传感器阵列证明适用于广泛的患者群体,无论身体特征如何.
- 该设备有助于非专家获取必要的心脏信号,以进行远程监测.
结论:
- 开发的灵活的多传感器阵列为慢性心力衰竭患者的用户友好的家庭监测提供了可行的解决方案.
- 这项技术有可能显著改善远程患者护理,并减少急性心脏事件.
- 进一步实施可以使可穿戴心脏监测在风险人群中得到广泛采用.
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