Mobil cihaz kontrollü EKG holteri

The signals which result in electrical activity when the heart is active and are perceived through electrode from some specific points of body are called Electrocardiogram (EKG). EKG signals have very valuable information for diagnosis of many heart diseases and are recorded through devices called ectrocardiographer. EKG devices cannot be used for the rhythm disorders which are not seen in physical examination but manifest itself during the day. In such cases, the devices called rhythm holter are used. These devices make EKG records for 24-48 hours and are carried on patients’ body. In this study, an EKG holter controlled by a mobile device was developed by taking the popularity of mobile devices today into consideration. The developed holter had two parts which were data collection and mobile device. The data collection tool was developed in order to take the EKG signals from electrodes and to send them to the mobile device through bluetooth communication. Mobile device was used as an indicator, control and record device via developed interface. This interface was developed as compatible with all smartphones and tablets with Android and IOS operating system. The mobile device controlled EKG holter can work in three different modes. EKG device mode should be selected when the signals need to be followed instant while EKG holter mode should be on when EKG signals need to be recorded for 24-48 hours. The mode of event recorder should be used when it is desired to make record by pushing related button in the case of the patient has a complaint. The developed system has been tested separately for EKG device, EKG holter and event recorder modes. The signals sent from data collection unit could be followed instant in the mode of EKG device. In the mode of EKG holter and event recorder, various tests were carried out in terms of battery life, contunuity of bluetooth connection, and realibility of measurement results. It was observed that the alkaline featured batteries were sufficient for 24 hours measurements. The continuity of bluetooth connection was tested in different scenarios. For each scenario, the bluetooth connection between mobile device and data collection tool were re-installed automatically through the features in interface developed for mobile device. Thus, it was provided that the results of measurements obtained through data collection tool were transferred to mobile device without any loss. Besides, via Service and Background Fetch application components used in interface, the results of measurements were provided to be recorded to the SQLite database even if the interface was off. Hence, the realibility of measurement results were provided in database used through only developed interface. The test results obtained for developed system showed that the proposed device can meet some features that should be included in a classic EKG holter such as battery life, the contunuity of blueetooth connection and realibility of measurement results