Mobile Heart Rate Detection System (MoHeRDS) for early warning of potentially-fatal heart diseases
Most health institutes and common hospitals use a continuous cardiac monitoring machine that is immobile, big and heavy, costly and is not equipped with an option to send warnings if there is an alarming change in the patient’s heart rate. Thus, the purpose of this research is to design and deve...
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| Language: | English English |
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IEEE
2016
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/52758/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/52758/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/52758/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/52758/1/52758.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/52758/2/52758-Mobile%20Heart%20Rate%20Detection%20System%20%28MoHeRDS%29%20for%20Early%20Warning%20of%20Potentially-Fatal%20Heart%20Diseases_SCOPUS.pdf |
| Summary: | Most health institutes and common hospitals use
a continuous cardiac monitoring machine that is immobile, big
and heavy, costly and is not equipped with an option to send
warnings if there is an alarming change in the patient’s heart
rate. Thus, the purpose of this research is to design and develop
a device prototype that detects alarming changes of a person’s
heart rate and sends a warning immediately via Short Message
Service (SMS) to receivers such as doctors, family members, a
person in charge, or monitoring system application. The
objective is achieved by developing a program for Arduino
microcontroller that enables a pulse sensor module to detect
alarming changes of a user’s heart rate through
photoplethysmography technique and utilizes a GSM Shield
module to act as an SMS interface between the device prototype
and receivers. The relevancy of Mobile Heart Rate Detection
System (MoHeRDS) device is investigated through a survey that
has resulted in positive responses from 70 respondents mainly
from the health sector where 100% of them agree that
MoHeRDS is relevant and some deem it very relevant to be one
of the helping factors for early warning of Potentially-Fatal
Heart Diseases (such as heart attacks, heart failures, etc.).
Furthermore, MoHeRDS is palm-sized, portable and has a
reasonable low cost. Thus, with the implementation of
MoHeRDS in the health sectors, individuals with risk of
potentially-fatal heart diseases can get immediate treatment
hence reducing their death statistics. |
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