Smart-watches: a potential challenger to the implantable loop recorder?
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The newest generation of smart-watches offer heart rate monitoring technology via photoplethysmography, a technology shown to demonstrate impressive ability in diagnosing arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation. Combining such technology with the portability, connectivity and other location and activity tracking features smart-watches could represent a powerful new tool in extended non-invasive arrhythmia detection. The technology itself, including potential uses and limitations, is discussed. There is a need for further software development but crucially, further work into clarifying the diagnostic accuracy of such technology.
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Noninvasive, consumer-grade wearables are less expensive than gold standard research devices.
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- Authors
- Carpenter, A., & Frontera, A.
- Affiliations
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Carpenter, Alexander
- Venue
- Europace
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2016-02-03
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 791-793
- ISSN
- 1099-5129 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-2092
- OpenAlex
- W2266977369
- Cited by
- 86
- References
- 16
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- FWCI
- 4.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- EP Europace (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › ECG Monitoring and Analysis
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Keywords
- smartwatches, implantable loop recorder, photoplethysmography, heart rate monitoring, atrial fibrillation detection, arrhythmia detection, non-invasive cardiac monitoring, diagnostic accuracy
- MeSH terms
- Atrial Fibrillation, Equipment Design, Heart Rate, Humans, Software, Electrocardiography, Ambulatory, Photoplethysmography
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