Course detail
Cardiac diagnostics
FEKT-MPC-DVKAcad. year: 2021/2022
The course will guide students through the methods and techniques used in cardiac diagnostics. Students will gain insight into the anatomy and physiology of the heart and learn to record, filter and then interpret the manifestations of cardiac activity. The course is designed with emphasis on the interconnectedness of the topics described above.
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations. Teaching methods include lectures and practical laboratories. Course is taking advantage of e-learning systems.
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Course curriculum
2. Electrical manifestations of the heart - electromechanical properties of the heart, action potential, electric vector.
3. Mechanical activity of the heart - cardiac cycle, Frank-Starling mechanism, adaptation of the heart to stress, arrhythmias and fibrillation.
4. ECG lead systems - standard bipolar limb leads, unipolar leads, Goldberger semi-unipolar leads, twelve-lead ECG.
5. Acquisition of ECG, amplifiers and electrical separation from the network - construction of electrodes, technical solution and requirements of ECG sensor, properties of ECG in terms of signal acquisition, operational amplifier, instrument amplifier, circuits of electrical separation from the network.
6. Noise in ECG, sources of interference - consequences of the presence of noise in ECG, sources of interference, useful and noise component of ECG, CMRR, driven right leg.
7. Analog ECG filtering - design of hardware filters, RC, order of filters, types of filters.
8. Digital ECG filtering - design of software filters, isoline filtration, network hum filtration, myopotential filtration, QRS emphasis, filter types and their properties.
9. Evaluation of ECG curve - origin of ECG curve, ventricular vectors, measurement and evaluation of ECG, morphology of physiological and pathological ECG curve, technical and biological artifacts in ECG.
10. R-wave detectors - R-wave detectors, zero-crossing, Pan-Tompkins, detectors using wavelet transform, QRS frequency spectrum, QRS abnormalities.
11. Heart rate variability - construction, preprocessing and evaluation of tachograms, HRV parameters in time, geometric, frequency and nonlinear domains.
12. Arrhythmology - basic heart rhythms, mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias, extrasystoles, blockages, arrhythmias, Laddergram.
13. Vectorcardiography and inclination of the cardiac axis - cardiac axis, vectorcardiography, ECG compression using orthogonal transformations.
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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Basic literature
WEBSTER, John G a John W CLARK. Medical instrumentation: application and design. 4th ed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, c2010. ISBN 978-0471676003. (CS)
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Elearning
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme MPC-BIO Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
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Elearning