Surface modification of textile electrodes to improve electrocardiography signals in wearable smart garment

Soroudi, Azadeh; Hernández, Niina; Wipenmyr, Jan; Nierstrasz, Vincent

doi:10.1007/s10854-019-02047-9

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“…For non-contact dry textile electrodes, the quality of the acquired ECG signal is a common issue. To address such a challenge, studies have been conducted to improve the surface characteristics of the electrodes, enabling a more effective contact area, e.g., by implementing an electro-conductive elastic paste between skin and electrode [85]. Fig.…”

Section: A Electrocardiogram For Monitoring Cvd and Covid-19 Patientsmentioning

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Wearable Sensing and Telehealth Technology with Potential Applications in the Coronavirus Pandemic

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Clifton

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IEEE Rev. Biomed. Eng.

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has emerged as a pandemic with serious clinical manifestations including death.A pandemic at the large-scale like COVID-19 places extraordinary demands on the world's health systems, dramatically devastates vulnerable populations, and critically threatens the global communities in an unprecedented way. While tremendous efforts at the frontline are placed on detecting the virus, providing treatments and developing vaccines, it is also critically important to examine the technologies and systems for tackling disease emergence, arresting its spread and especially the strategy for diseases prevention. The objective of this article is to review enabling technologies and systems with various application scenarios for handling the COVID-19 crisis. The article will focus specifically on 1) wearable devices suitable for monitoring the populations at risk and those in quarantine, both for evaluating the health status of caregivers and management personnel, and for facilitating triage processes for admission to hospitals; 2) unobtrusive sensing systems for detecting the disease and for monitoring patients with relatively mild symptoms whose clinical situation could suddenly worsen in improvised hospitals; and 3) telehealth technologies for the remote monitoring and diagnosis of COVID-19 and related diseases. Finally, further challenges and opportunities for future directions of development are highlighted.

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Section: A Electrocardiogram For Monitoring Cvd and Covid-19 Patientsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wearable Sensing and Telehealth Technology with Potential Applications in the Coronavirus Pandemic

Ding

Clifton

et al. 2021

IEEE Rev. Biomed. Eng.

218

155

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“…Skin-electrode contact impedance was measured by the three-electrode method on hand as shown in Figure 1a, and using Grass impedance meter F-EZM5, as described in details in our previous publication [10]. ECG signals were also recorded with the method previously reported [10].…”

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“…The ability of this electrode glue to decrease the skin-electrode impedance is shown in Table 1. Figure 2 presents how using this glue between the skin and electrode has improved the recorded ECG signal quality through decreasing the amount of noises and motion artefacts in recorded signals in a wearable ECG garment, called WearItMed [10,14].…”

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Novel Skin-Electrode Conductive Adhesives to Improve the Quality of Recorded Body Signals in Smart Medical Garments

Soroudi

Skrifvars

Nierstrasz

2019

International Conference on the Challenges, Opportunities, Innovations and Applications in Electronic Textiles

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A main barrier to widespread use of electrocardiography garments for long term heart monitoring of elderly and patients is a poor skin-electrode signal transfer because of a high contact impedance and sensitivity to movement. This leads to unwanted disturbances and errors in recorded signals when the patient moves or even breathe, affecting the reliability and quality of the signals especially for patients with dry/old skin. In two different projects at the University of Borås, we have developed two novel products to solve the above problem; (1) an ongoing project that has fabricated a reusable and sustainable electro-conductive adhesive applicable between the skin and high-porous textile electrodes, and (2) a patent-pending skin-electrode glue (BioEl Glue®) which is a biocompatible electro-conductive water-soluble glue used between skin and low-porous textile electrodes.

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“…The association of daily physical activity derived from motion data with an ECG is very useful for cardiologists as it can help them determine the cause of a certain heart disease, e.g., abnormal ECG caused by over-exercising. Based on the numerous advantages of e-textile electrodes, many other researchers reported the use of such technology and materials for wearable ECG monitoring systems [18][19][20][21].…”

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Physiological and Behavior Monitoring Systems for Smart Healthcare Environments: A Review

Rodrigues

Postolache

Cercas

2020

Sensors

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Healthcare optimization has become increasingly important in the current era, where numerous challenges are posed by population ageing phenomena and the demand for higher quality of the healthcare services. The implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) in the healthcare ecosystem has been one of the best solutions to address these challenges and therefore to prevent and diagnose possible health impairments in people. The remote monitoring of environmental parameters and how they can cause or mediate any disease, and the monitoring of human daily activities and physiological parameters are among the vast applications of IoT in healthcare, which has brought extensive attention of academia and industry. Assisted and smart tailored environments are possible with the implementation of such technologies that bring personal healthcare to any individual, while living in their preferred environments. In this paper we address several requirements for the development of such environments, namely the deployment of physiological signs monitoring systems, daily activity recognition techniques, as well as indoor air quality monitoring solutions. The machine learning methods that are most used in the literature for activity recognition and body motion analysis are also referred. Furthermore, the importance of physical and cognitive training of the elderly population through the implementation of exergames and immersive environments is also addressed.

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Surface modification of textile electrodes to improve electrocardiography signals in wearable smart garment

Cited by 43 publications

References 54 publications

Wearable Sensing and Telehealth Technology with Potential Applications in the Coronavirus Pandemic

Wearable Sensing and Telehealth Technology with Potential Applications in the Coronavirus Pandemic

Novel Skin-Electrode Conductive Adhesives to Improve the Quality of Recorded Body Signals in Smart Medical Garments

Physiological and Behavior Monitoring Systems for Smart Healthcare Environments: A Review

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