From September 23 till September 26, we attended the Computing In Cardiology 2018 Conference in Maastricht, The Netherlands. The MHU delivered a substantial contribution to the program, by organizing a special session on bioimpedance monitoring in cardiovascular diseases. The session was moderated by Prof. Chris Van Hoof from imec and dr. Christophe Smeets from the MHU. An enthusiastic public attended the session and were eager to obtain more insights in the application potential of bioimpedance monitoring in cardiovascular diseases. Bioimpedance is an electrical principle which represents the resistance that oppose an applied current to pass through the body. Since blood and fluids have a lower impedance to an electrical current compared to human body tissue, it is possible to measure fluid changes. First a technical introduction section was given bij Willemijn Groenendaal from imec, followed by the different clinical applications of bioimpedance, the MHU is working on (i.e. the use of bioimpedance in implantable electronic cardiac devices by dr. Christophe Smeets, the use of non-invasive wearable bioimpedance monitoring devices for fluid monitoring in heart failure and chronic kidney patients and finally the use of single frequency bioimpedance measurements in heart failure to measure different respiratory parameters by Hélène De Cannière).
