1. Wearable vest for pulmonary congestion tracking and prognosis in heart failure
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Paloma Gastelurrutia, Ronald M. Aarts, Cinta Llibre, Ángel Caballero, Josep Lupón, Elisabet Zamora, Jarno Riistama, Antoni Bayes-Genis, Illapha Cuba-Gyllensten, Signal Processing Systems, and Biomedical Diagnostics Lab
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Treatment outcome ,Wearable computer ,Pilot Projects ,Pulmonary Edema ,Heart failure ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Body weight ,Pulmonary congestion ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Assisted Circulation ,Bioelectrical bioimpedance analysis ,Textile electrodes ,Aged ,Aged, 80 and over ,business.industry ,Body Weight ,Equipment Design ,Middle Aged ,Pulmonary edema ,medicine.disease ,Prognosis ,Treatment Outcome ,Cardiology ,Physical therapy ,VEST ,Female ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business - Abstract
Given the epidemic of readmissionsfor heart failure (HF) in western countries, new tools for congestion tracking are needed in the management of patients with HF. We previously presented a novel, wearable textile vest that could track decongestion during therapy for acutely decompensated HF (ADHF) in a cardiac ward. The vest wraps around the chest and has textile electrodes placed on the lateral sides so that multi-frequency measurements of bio-impedance can be taken of the whole chest. The vest data showed strong agreement with fluid loss as determined by weight changes and good correlation with changes in signs and symptom (HF severity score) [1]. Here,weassessedtheabilityofthisvesttoprovideadditionalinsight
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- 2016
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