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Proceedings of the 7th Purdue Conference on Cardiac Defibrillation: A Database of Cardiac Arrhythmias
Author(s) -
Panescu Dorin,
Webster John G.,
Tompkins Willis J.,
Staley Richard L.,
Johnson Jean,
Schlageter Dave,
Stratbucker Robert A.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
academic emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1553-2712
pISSN - 1069-6563
DOI - 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1995.tb03082.x
Subject(s) - medicine , defibrillation , asystole , database , technician , ventricular fibrillation , software , electronic database , heart rhythm , medical emergency , computer science , electrical engineering , engineering , programming language
Objective: To describe a database of cardiac arrhythmia recordings, useful for the development and testing of ECG rhythm processing or monitoring algorithms and devices. Methods: The raw data were acquired within the Wisconsin‐Dane County emergency medical technician‐defibrillation program and contained emergency rhythm recordings of an average length of 30 minutes. The raw data were integrated into a software platform designed for the annotation and visualization of the recordings. Results: Currently the database contains the following arrhythmia episodes: ventricular fibrillation (56), asystole (65), electromechanical dissociation (31), and other arrhythmias (42). The software, resident on personal computers, also can transmit any of the database recordings, through a digital‐to‐analog converter board, to a device under test. Conclusions: The database technique described will provide a useful means of objectively assessing electronic devices for their ability to detect arrhythmias. The database is unique in that it contains lengthy episodes of arrhythmias. The database will be extended to include additional cases.