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Phonocardiography for Heart Failure Home Prevention | N. Giordano | PitchD 25

PitchD – the PhD’s pitch: our PhD IEEE Student Members explain to students, collegues and professors their research. Website http://sites.ieee.org/sb-polito/ Linkedin   / ieeesbpolito   Facebook   / ieeesbpolito   ----------------------------------------- Multi-source phonocardiography for the home prevention of heart failure Ms. Noemi Giordano, Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET), Politecnico di Torino Auscultation is a traditional routine screening tool in the clinical practice for cardiovascular diseases, the first world cause of death according to the World Health Organization. Phonocardiography is its digital counterpart and is growing in importance because it allows, for example, for the assessment of the electromechanical coupling of the heart. A delay in the closure of heart valves, which originates heart sounds, with respect to the ventricular depolarization in the simultaneous electrocardiogram was found to correlate with heart failure. This talk will explore how the design of a noninvasive device for the recording of phonocardiographic (PCG) and electrocardiographic (ECG) signals can help in the prevention of acute episodes of heart failure. The issues regarding the positioning of the digital stethoscope, limiting its applicability in a real-life homecare context, will be investigated along with the potentiality of multi-source phonocardiography as a possible solution.