NCT04163965

Data Collection for Pacemaker Recognition Through Capacitive ECG

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: RWTH Aachen University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the signal quality of capacitive ECG (cECG) on pacemaker patients and whether paced rhythms of the pacemaker can be distinguished from the normal beats using cECG signals.

Detailed description

In contrast to classical gold-standard ECG, cECG electrodes can sense the electrical activity of the heart even over the clothing of the subject, which allows several applications in out-of-hospital monitoring. The proposed scenarios for cECG revolve around the unobtrusiveness of the measurement with an inferior signal quality to gold standard ECG. The electrical spikes, that come into existence due to the paced rhythms given by a pacemaker, are only visible in ECG signals recorded by adequate medical instrumentation. Whether cECG can deliver enough signal quality to identify the electrical spikes of the paced rhythms needs to be investigated by recording simultaneous normal and capacitive ECG signals.

Conditions

• Pacemaker DDD

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Capacitive ECG	Patients having a pacemaker will sit down on a seat bearing capacitive ECG electrodes during their routine heart checkup at the cardiology.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-11-13
• Primary completion: 2019-11-28
• Completion: 2020-02-13
• First posted: 2019-11-15
• Last updated: 2020-03-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany