TY - GEN
T1 - Guided physical exercise of cardiac patients during rehabilitation
T2 - 13th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, IEEE BIBE 2013
AU - Runtti, Hilkka
AU - Filos, Dimitris
AU - Van Gils, Mark
AU - Chouvarda, Ioanna
AU - Honka, Anita
AU - Pärkkä, Juha
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - A system to provide cardiac patients with the possibility to perform safe and beneficial exercise during their rehabilitation was developed within the EU project Heartcycle. Within the system, algorithms use physiological signals from a wearable device (embedded in a shirt) to guide the patient through the exercise. After having been technically validated, the system was deployed for clinical evaluation with 63 patients in Germany (21), Great Britain (25) and Spain (17). The paper describes the first findings of this evaluation study with respect to: technical feasibility, adherence of the patients to the prescribed exercise protocol, and changes in physiological observables as the patients follow their exercise plan. Technically, the system functioned well, and overall the adherence of those patients that actually started using the system was stable, or even improving, in the vast majority of cases. An increase was especially seen in adherence to the protocol set for the warm-up phase of the exercise. This is an important finding for a group of patients that is known to have declining adherence to rehabilitation recommendations in the long term. The recovery analysis showed that especially the recovery of the heart rate as measured in the first minute after the exercise end showed improvement over time.
AB - A system to provide cardiac patients with the possibility to perform safe and beneficial exercise during their rehabilitation was developed within the EU project Heartcycle. Within the system, algorithms use physiological signals from a wearable device (embedded in a shirt) to guide the patient through the exercise. After having been technically validated, the system was deployed for clinical evaluation with 63 patients in Germany (21), Great Britain (25) and Spain (17). The paper describes the first findings of this evaluation study with respect to: technical feasibility, adherence of the patients to the prescribed exercise protocol, and changes in physiological observables as the patients follow their exercise plan. Technically, the system functioned well, and overall the adherence of those patients that actually started using the system was stable, or even improving, in the vast majority of cases. An increase was especially seen in adherence to the protocol set for the warm-up phase of the exercise. This is an important finding for a group of patients that is known to have declining adherence to rehabilitation recommendations in the long term. The recovery analysis showed that especially the recovery of the heart rate as measured in the first minute after the exercise end showed improvement over time.
U2 - 10.1109/BIBE.2013.6701533
DO - 10.1109/BIBE.2013.6701533
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84894164436
SN - 9781479931637
T3 - 13th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, IEEE BIBE 2013
BT - 13th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, IEEE BIBE 2013
Y2 - 10 November 2013 through 13 November 2013
ER -