Wereldprimeur - FibriCheck app spoort automatisch ‘asymptomatische en periodieke’ voorkamerfibrillatie op tijdens de slaap, wat het aantal beroertes sterk laat dalen Dinsdag 31 maart 2020 — Hasselt. FibriCheck, de eerste CE- en FDA-gecertificeerde medische applicatie, monitort als eerste ter wereld…
A digital screening for atrial fibrillation successfully monitored more than 60,000 participants from the general population in Belgium. The study screened participants using only a smartphone and demonstrates the feasibility of collecting data in a scalable, controlled and cost-effective way.
The heart is an electromechanical muscular pump that, in a normal situation, has a rhythmic contraction when an electrical stimulus triggers the heart cells to contract. This electrical signal is also called the electrocardiogram, or ECG for short. After every…
As you have read in the previous posts the PPG signal is basically the same principle as palpitating the pulse at the arteria radialis. However, instead of putting your finger on your wrist, with FibriCheck you are putting your smartphone…
https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euw164
Objective: The goal of this document is to demonstrate the correlation between ECG derived heart beats and PPG derived heartbeats and the define the capability of a smartphone to correctly and accurately measure beat-to-beat intervals. Introduction: The heart is an…