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State of the Art on Wearable and Implantable Devices for Cardiac and Respiratory Monitoring

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Ambulatory monitoring devices are enabling a new paradigm of healthcare by continuously collecting, processing, and interpreting long-term data aiming to provide reliable clinical diagnoses. These devices are becoming increasingly popular, both among healthcare practitioners and patients, for long-term continuous monitoring of cardiac diseases. Advancements in the fields of hardware technologies and software algorithms have enabled solutions that are both affordable and reliable, allowing monitoring of vulnerable populations from the comfort of their homes. These devices provide early detection of important physiological events, providing patients with timely alerts to seek medical attention. In this chapter, we aim to summarize recent developments and challenges in the area of ambulatory and remote monitoring solutions for cardiac and respiratory diagnostics. We present solutions based on wearable devices, smartphones/tablets, as well as implantable sensors. Finally, we present an overview of the limitations of current technologies, their effectiveness, and adoption by the general population, and we discuss some of the recently proposed methods that may help overcome those challenges.

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  1. Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Antonis A. Armoundas

  2. Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Antonis A. Armoundas

  3. The Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Jagmeet P. Singh & E. Kevin Heist

  4. Healthcare Transformation Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Eric M. Isselbacher

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Armoundas, A.A., Singh, J.P., Heist, E.K., Isselbacher, E.M. (2021). State of the Art on Wearable and Implantable Devices for Cardiac and Respiratory Monitoring. In: Efimov, I.R., Ng, F.S., Laughner, J.I. (eds) Cardiac Bioelectric Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63355-4_25

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