Using tele-medical electrocardiography monitoring and analysis for a more immediate prognosis to patients of suspect Long QT Syndrome

摘要

Currently Long QT Syndrome (LQTS) is diagnosed by using the Long QT Syndrome “diagnostic score”. Calculation of the score is done by assigning different points to various criteria. The answers to the criteria are often hard to obtain as they require lengthy periods of cardiac observations. And even after the scores are obtain, only a percentage of certainty is obtained. Diagnosis of LQTS is often hard as 2.5% of the healthy population has prolonged QT interval. Conversely, 10–15% of LQTS patients have normal QT intervals. In this paper an approach to prognose a patient suspect of LQTS is proposed. It involves monitoring the QTc interval trend lines of the suspected patient. Through trend analysis, it seeks to discern the patients with LQTS from the healthy patients.