Pervasive technology in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: a prototype for newborns unobtrusive monitoring.
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
; 2008: 1292-5, 2008.
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ABSTRACT
Pervasive computing research is introducing new perspectives in a wide range of applications, including healthcare domain. In this study we explore the possibility to realize a prototype of a system for unobtrusive recording and monitoring of multiple biological parameters on premature newborns hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). It consists of three different units a sensitized belt for Electrocardiogram (ECG) and chest dilatation monitoring, augmented with extrinsic transducers for temperature and respiratory activity measure, a device for signals pre-processing, sampling and transmission through Bluetooth(R) (BT) technology to a remote PC station and a software for data capture and post-processing. Preliminary results obtained by monitoring babies just discharged from the ward demonstrated the feasibility of the unobtrusive monitoring on this kind of subjects and open a new scenario for premature newborns monitoring and developmental cares practice in NICU.
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Assunto principal:
Processamento de Sinais Assistido por Computador
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Software
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Unidades de Terapia Intensiva Neonatal
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Monitorização Fisiológica
Limite:
Humans
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Newborn
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En
Ano de publicação:
2008
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Article