Bimod Vet®, a medical device for early and fast detection of cardiac abnormalities in dogs: Experimental validation and first results on heart rhythm

摘要

© 2022 AFVACThis article presents a new intelligent, mobile, and connected medical device: Bimod Vet®. Fast and noninvasive, it enables an early detection of some dog's cardiac abnormalities, as arrhythmias and murmurs, in less than 60 seconds and in normal examination conditions, without hair shaving, wireless, without clamps or sticky electrodes and without immobilization. It combines 2 essential signals in cardiology, keeping their natural synchronicity: electrocardiogram and phonocardiogram. Recordings were obtained in 44 dogs from 30 different breeds, with age ranging from 2,5 months to 19 years and weight from 2 kg to 36 kg, in thin and obese individuals with different types of hair, in healthy animals or dogs presenting with different cardiac diseases. Very satisfying results were achieved: the device has many experimental assets to perform a cardiac examination on a dog with no stress induced, by easy and fast recording in every type of dog and enabling to precisely measure the heart rate and to detect rhythm disorders from good quality electrocardiograms, according to age and weight of dogs.