CONTINUOUS TELEMETRIC ECG MONITORING

Diabetes mellitus is becoming a major public health problem. Telecare can
improve the quality of diabetes care by altering the caring environment and care delivery process.
The electrocardiogram (ECG) is the recording of the electrical property of the heartbeats, and has
become one of the most important tools in the diagnosis of heart diseases in diabetic patients. Due to
the high mortality rate of heart diseases in diabetic patients, early detection and precise discrimination
of ECG arrhythmia is essential for the treatment of patients. The study tries to investigate Tele
Diabetes Care.
Materials & Methods: The study was carried out by using the key words of Diabetes, Telecare,
TeleHealth, TeleMonitoring, ECG Signal, Heart Diseases as well as the electronic databases of
CINAHL Science Direct, Ovid, Scopus, and SID, Magiran, PubMed, and Google scholar. This study
has been carried out in 13 years period from 2000 to 2013.
Results: The electrocardiogram (ECG) is the recording of the electrical property of the heartbeats, and
has become one of the most important tools in the diagnosis of heart diseases. Due to the high
mortality rate of heart diseases, early detection and precise discrimination of ECG arrhythmia is
essential for the treatment of patients. The results of this study show that Telecare solutions for
diabetes care are feasible and acceptable, and it can improve other aspects of diabetes management.
Ccontinuous ECG monitoring also can improve care delivery process.
Conclusion: Designing and implementing of automated & portable system to receive, store, interpret,
and alert relevant information signals for diagnosis of patients with diabetes was investigated