Wearable and Implanted Sensors Platform to Monitor and Control Left Ventricular Assist Devices

摘要

In the frame of the project SensorART (FP7-ICT-248763, funded by the European Commission) a set of parameters has been identified to gather all the necessary information to control the functionalities of a ventricular assist device (VAD) by a wearable hardware unit in order to improve both the quality of the patients' treatment and the workflow of the specialists. The SensorART platform will be open, interoperable, extendable and VAD-independent and it will incorporate different hardware and software components. The sensors platform comprises both implantable and wearable devices. Wearable sensors are exploited to assist the decision algorithms by gathering physiological parameters using a non invasive approach. Purpose of this paper is to give a brief description of the platform, with a particular focus on the different sensors and on the wearable unit that collects data and controls the VAD flow.