1. Introduction -- 2. Impedance cardiography -- 3. Ambulatory impedance cardiography -- 4. Validation of the ambulatory impedance cardiography method -- 5. Clinical and physiological applications of impedance cardiography ambulatory monitoring -- 6. Final conclusions and future directions
Summary
This book is divided in 4 parts. In the first one, the importance of the analysis of the cardiac dynamics using the ambulatory monitoring technique is presented. The second part contains the description of foundations of impedance cardiography (ICG), the models used to describe the ICG technique and the description of available systems for ambulatory monitoring of cardiac hemodynamics. The third part is devoted to the validation of the ambulatory ICG method, the verification of the quality of long term ICG recordings and the discussion of the limitations of this technique. In the last part, so
