Development of a mobile electrocardiograph with a wireless warning embedded system

Actually more than 11% of total adult deaths in Mexico City are due to sharp heart attack, which also represents the third cause of deceases in the whole world. The realization of electrocardiograms is a fundamental component in diagnosis and prevention of cardiac diseases, which made the electrocardiograph a medical tool as fundamental as a thermometer. However, actual price of commercial devices do not allow its acquisition and use: even in medical institutions an ECG is conditioned to a previous diagnosis. In this paper is presented a low cost wireless electrocardiograph with a telemedical application embedded, that allows the transmission of a warning signal to specialized personnel about remote patients anomalies in their cardiovascular performance. (c) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of the ENIINVIE-2012.