Towards quasi-continuous heart rate variability estimation using a patch type electrocardiogram recorder

TY - GEN

T1 - Towards quasi-continuous heart rate variability estimation using a patch type electrocardiogram recorder

AU - Saadi, Dorthe B.

AU - Ahrens, Esben

AU - Sorensen, Helge B.D.

AU - Langberg, Henning

AU - Hoppe, Karsten

PY - 2015/1/1

Y1 - 2015/1/1

N2 - Changes in different heart rate variability (HRV) measures have been found to possess predictive information in patients with many different diseases, e.g. myocardial infarction, diabetic neuropathy, and patients at risk of developing sepsis. At the same time, the emerging of patch type electrocardiogram recorders facilitates new possibilities for long-term monitoring, real-time data analysis, and wireless transmission of clinically relevant parameters, e.g. short-term HRV measures. This information might in the future assist the healthcare professionals in timely notification of changes in the risk stratification profile obtained from the HRV measures. The purpose of this study is therefore to investigate the possibilities for quasi-continuous estimation of reliable HRV measures using the ePatch heart monitor. We compared the physiologically true values of 11 selected HRV measures with the values obtained using automatically generated RR series from electrocardiograms recorded with the ePatch using four different sampling frequencies (128 Hz, 256 Hz, 512 Hz, and 1024 Hz). We found no significant differences between neither the mean nor the median values of the obtained HRV measures for any of the sampling frequencies. This is very promising for the future application of the ePatch for quasi-continuous monitoring of HRV measures.

AB - Changes in different heart rate variability (HRV) measures have been found to possess predictive information in patients with many different diseases, e.g. myocardial infarction, diabetic neuropathy, and patients at risk of developing sepsis. At the same time, the emerging of patch type electrocardiogram recorders facilitates new possibilities for long-term monitoring, real-time data analysis, and wireless transmission of clinically relevant parameters, e.g. short-term HRV measures. This information might in the future assist the healthcare professionals in timely notification of changes in the risk stratification profile obtained from the HRV measures. The purpose of this study is therefore to investigate the possibilities for quasi-continuous estimation of reliable HRV measures using the ePatch heart monitor. We compared the physiologically true values of 11 selected HRV measures with the values obtained using automatically generated RR series from electrocardiograms recorded with the ePatch using four different sampling frequencies (128 Hz, 256 Hz, 512 Hz, and 1024 Hz). We found no significant differences between neither the mean nor the median values of the obtained HRV measures for any of the sampling frequencies. This is very promising for the future application of the ePatch for quasi-continuous monitoring of HRV measures.

KW - Heart rate variability

KW - Patch ECG recorder

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M3 - Article in proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:84960841139

SP - 20

EP - 29

BT - CARDIOTECHNIX 2015 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Congress on Cardiovascular Technologies

PB - SCITEPRESS (Science and Technology Publications, Lda.)

T2 - 3rd International Congress on Cardiovascular Technologies, CARDIOTECHNIX 2015

Y2 - 16 November 2015 through 17 November 2015

ER -