Validation of an equine fitness tracker: ECG quality and arrhythmia detection.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cardiac arrhythmias in exercising horses are the focus of much interest, both in terms of what is considered normal and potential associations with poor performance and sudden cardiac death. One barrier to performing large-scale studies is the lack of an easily applicable device, to allow recording of large numbers of high-quality exercising electrocardiograms (ECGs). The Equimetre^TM is a new wearable device which records a single lead ECG, amongst other parameters. Validation of such wearable devices is essential before further studies are undertaken.

Objectives

To evaluate the quality of ECG using the Equimetre^TM and compare arrhythmia detection during exercise with the reference Televet^TM system.

Study design

Prospective

SUBMITTER: Ter Woort F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10078706 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature