PMID- 36496775
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20230308
IS  - 2076-2615 (Print)
IS  - 2076-2615 (Electronic)
IS  - 2076-2615 (Linking)
VI  - 12
IP  - 23
DP  - 2022 Nov 23
TI  - A Smart Textile Band Achieves High-Quality Electrocardiograms in Unrestrained 
      Horses.
LID - 10.3390/ani12233254 [doi]
LID - 3254
AB  - Electrocardiography (ECG) is an essential tool in assessing equine health and 
      fitness. However, standard ECG devices are expensive and rely on the use of 
      adhesive electrodes, which may become detached and are associated with reduced 
      ECG quality over time. Smart textile electrodes composed of stainless-steel 
      fibers have previously been shown to be a suitable alternative in horses at rest 
      and during exercise. The objective of this study was to compare ECG quality using 
      a smart textile girth band knit with silver and carbon yarns to standard adhesive 
      silver/silver chloride (Ag/AgCl) electrodes. Simultaneous three-lead ECGs were 
      recorded using a smart textile band and Ag/AgCl electrodes in 22 healthy, 
      mixed-breed horses that were unrestrained in stalls. ECGs were compared using the 
      following quality metrics: Kurtosis (k) value, Kurtosis signal quality index 
      (kSQI), percentage of motion artifacts (%MA), peak signal amplitude, and heart 
      rate (HR). Two-way ANOVA with Tukey's multiple comparison tests was conducted to 
      compare each metric. No significant differences were found in any of the assessed 
      metrics between the smart textile band and Ag/AgCl electrodes, with the exception 
      of peak amplitude. Kurtosis and kSQI values were excellent for both methods 
      (textile mean k = 21.8 +/- 6.1, median kSQI = 0.98 [0.92-1.0]; Ag/AgCl k = 21.2 +/- 
      7.6, kSQI = 0.99 [0.97-1.0]) with <0.5% (<1 min) of the recording being corrupted 
      by MAs for both. This study demonstrates that smart textiles are a practical and 
      reliable alternative to the standard electrodes typically used in ECG monitoring 
      of horses.
FAU - McCrae, Persephone
AU  - McCrae P
AD  - Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, 
      Canada.
FAU - Spong, Hannah
AU  - Spong H
AD  - Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, 
      Canada.
FAU - Rutherford, Ashley-Ann
AU  - Rutherford AA
AD  - Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, 
      Canada.
FAU - Osborne, Vern
AU  - Osborne V
AD  - Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, 
      Canada.
FAU - Mahnam, Amin
AU  - Mahnam A
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7712-7657
AD  - Department of Research and Development, Myant Inc., Toronto, ON M9W 1B6, Canada.
FAU - Pearson, Wendy
AU  - Pearson W
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3635-4594
AD  - Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, 
      Canada.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20221123
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Animals (Basel)
JT  - Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
JID - 101635614
PMC - PMC9740902
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - cardiology
OT  - electrocardiogram
OT  - equine
OT  - smart textile
OT  - textile computing
COIS- Authors P.M., H.S. and A.-A.R. hold Mitacs Accelerate fellowships at Myant Inc., 
      the company that produces the textile girth band utilized in this study. A.M. is 
      employed by Myant Inc. No fees were received for the data collection, analysis, 
      or preparation of this manuscript.
EDAT- 2022/12/12 06:00
MHDA- 2022/12/12 06:01
PMCR- 2022/11/23
CRDT- 2022/12/11 01:01
PHST- 2022/10/05 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/11/16 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/11/21 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/12/11 01:01 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/12/12 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/12/12 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/11/23 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ani12233254 [pii]
AID - animals-12-03254 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/ani12233254 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Animals (Basel). 2022 Nov 23;12(23):3254. doi: 10.3390/ani12233254.