Usefulness of monitoring congestive heart failure by multiple impedance vectors

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5668-5670

  Panescu, Dorin ^a   Naware, Mihir ^a   Siou, Jeff ^a   Nabutovsky, Yelena ^a   Holmstrom, Nils ^a   Blomqvist, Andreas ^a   Shah, Riddhi ^a   Gutfmger, Dan ^a   Khoury, Dirar ^b  

^a ST JUDE MEDICAL   (United States)

^b HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Defibrillator; Edema; Heart failure; Impedance; Pacemaker

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; DEFIBRILLATORS; DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; PACEMAKERS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; VECTORS;

CLINICAL SYMPTOMS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURES; EDEMA; EXPERIMENTAL MODELING; HEART FAILURE; IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; IMPLANTED ELECTRODES; PEAK TO PEAK AMPLITUDES;

HEART;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DOG; EVALUATION STUDY; HEART FAILURE; IMPEDANCE PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; LUNG EDEMA; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DOGS; HEART FAILURE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; PULMONARY EDEMA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP;

EID: 61849085745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4650500     Document Type: Conference Paper

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