Capacitive ECG Monitoring in Cardiac Patients During Simulated Driving.

Objective: This study aims to compare the informative value of a capacitively coupled electrocardiogram (cECG) to a conventional galvanic reference ECG (rECG) in patients after a major cardiac event under simulated driving conditions. Addressed research questions are the comparison and coherence of cECG and rECG by means of the signal quality, the artifact rate, the rate of assessable data for differential diagnosis, the visibility of characteristic ECG structures in cECG, the precision of ECG time intervals, and heart rate (in particular, despite possible waveform deformations due to the cardiac preconditions).

Methods: In a clinical trial, cECG and rECG data were recorded from ten patients after a major cardiac event.

Capacitive ECG recording and beat-to-beat interval estimation after major cardiac event.

Today, heart diseases are the most common cause of death in the U.S..