Enabling comfortable sports therapy for patient: A novel lightweight durable and portable ECG monitoring system

Abstract

In developing countries, people's living pressure is increasing with the society's development by inefficient economic growth mode. Recently, the number of people who suffer from sudden cardiac death is progressively increasing, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) has become one great killer which threats the life and health of people. However, at present, we are confronted with one problem: when a patient has chest distress or chest pain, etc., he/she hurries to the hospital to go through electrocardiograph (ECG) examination but the abnormal ECG signal disappears. Therefore, the opportunity to timely capture the ECG status of a patient and make an accurate judgment is lost. Thus, extensive efforts have been made to design various systems for patient monitoring at anytime and anywhere, in order to have real-time records and analysis on vital signal of patents, so as to provide early detection before the occurrence of adverse effect. However, the mobility of the patient is limited in most existing healthcare systems. While sporting is beneficial to improve patient's health, designing a comfortable and durable healthcare system for facilitating patient's movement is a critical issue. This paper presents a novel comfortable and durable portable ECG monitoring system to have real-time monitoring and analysis on a moving user. In the meantime, its special low power and on-demand data collection design alleviates the problem that the current wearable ECG monitoring equipment could not be used for a long time due to the constraint of its battery life.