Resumen

DUGARTE J, Nelson; JUGO, Diego  y  RAIMONDI, Vincenzo. Sistema para digitalización del electrocardiograma e historia médica computarizada aplicada a cardiología. INHRR [online]. 2007, vol.38, n.1, pp.20-27. ISSN 0798-0477.

This work presents the development of a system formed by two parts. The first part consists on a module hardware designed to digitize the electrocardiogram (ECG) of any electrocardiograph with analog exit and to transmit the data to a personal computer (PC). The second part of the system consists on a software programmed in the computer that has the purpose of manipulate and store the patient’s data and also perform the registration of the obtained ECG, this data is taken in a format of on-line medical history applied to cardiology. Among the tasks that carries the system can be named: Acquisition and sampling of the sign ECG coming from the analog electrocardiograph, transmission in serial form to the computer, visualization of the sign in real time, digital storage of each patient’s medical history, as well as of each one of the consultations and registrations of carried ECG, and report generation for the impression in paper of the 12 derivations of ECG. As result of this work, a prototype was built, which is at the moment in clinical validation in the University Hospital of The Andes. This system helps to modernize the old analogical electrocardiographs, transforming them in digital electrocardiographs of low cost, with all the advantages of the teams of last generation. It also allows the orderly storage of the medical histories of the patients with easy access to each one of the consultations and the registrations of ECG carried out previously.

Palabras clave : Biomedical instrumentation; on-line Electrocardiograph; digital Electrocardiogram; medical History of cardiology.