Implementing quiet hours on a medical telemetry unit

The development of biomedical devices benefits patients by offering real-time healthcare. In particular, pacemakers have gained a great deal of attention because they offer opportunities for monitoring the patient’s vitals and biological statics in real time. One of the important factors in realizing real-time body-centric sensing is to establish a robust wireless communication link among the medical devices. In this paper, radio transmission and the optimal characteristics for impedance matching the medical telemetry of an implant are investigated. For radio transmission, an integral coupling formula based on 3D vector far-field patterns was firstly applied to compute the antenna coupling between two antennas placed inside and outside of the body. The formula provides the capability for computing the antenna coupling in the near-field and far-field region. In order to include the effects of human implantation, the far-field pattern was characterized taking into account a sphere enclosing an antenna made of human tissue. Furthermore, the characteristics of impedance matching inside the human body were studied by means of inherent wave impedances of electrical and magnetic dipoles. Here, we demonstrate that the implantation of a magnetic dipole is advantageous because it provides similar impedance characteristics to those of the human body.

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An Intelligent cognitive sensing and detection strategy for medical telemetry networks

Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems ◽

10.3233/jifs-202673 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

S. Surekha ◽

Md. Zia Ur Rahman

Keyword(s):

Spectrum Sensing ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Cognitive Radios ◽

False Alarm Probability ◽

Energy Detection ◽

Least Mean Square ◽

Radio Technology ◽

Smart Hospitals ◽

Medical Telemetry ◽

Cognitive Radio Technology

In medical telemetry networks, cognitive radio technology is mostly used to avoid licensed spectrum underutilization and by providing access to unlicensed spectrum users without causing interference to primary users, this concept is widely used in development of smart hospitals and smart cities. In medical telemetry networks frequency spectrum concept is used for providing treatment to patients who are far away from hospitals. In cognitive radios, spectrum sensing concept is used in which energy detection method is mostly used because it is simple to implement. While measuring health care environments using cognitive radios probability detection, false alarm probability and threshold parameters are calculated. In this paper for identifying spectrum holes in spectrum sensing using energy detection, distributed diffusion non-negative least mean square algorithm is proposed. It gives better results compared to energy detection concept alone in terms of probability detection converged earlier. If number of nodes are increasing probability detection is decreased from one and move towards left and its SNR is around 1.5-2 dB with proposed method. Hence simulation results give better results in terms of sensing ability while measuring patient condition.

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Smart Medical Telemetry Acquisition System

10.1109/icesc51422.2021.9532775 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Kalpana Murugan ◽

S. Murugeswari ◽

Jangamreddy Pranav Reddy ◽

Madipally Hemanth Chandra ◽

Pera Vivekananda Reddy

Keyword(s):

Acquisition System ◽

Medical Telemetry

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A Compact Wideband Flexible Antenna for Wireless Medical Telemetry Services

Wireless Personal Communications ◽

10.1007/s11277-021-09246-w ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Hari Singh ◽

Binod Kumar Kanaujia ◽

Sachin Kumar ◽

Kunal Srivastava

Keyword(s):

Flexible Antenna ◽

Medical Telemetry

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Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing Program to Reduce Health Care–Associated Infections in Both Critically Ill and Non–Critically Ill Patients

Critical Care Nurse ◽

10.4037/ccn2021340 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 41 (5) ◽

pp. e1-e8

Author(s):

Leigh Chapman ◽

Lisa Hargett ◽

Theresa Anderson ◽

Jacqueline Galluzzo ◽

Paul Zimand

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Intensive Care Unit ◽

Intensive Care ◽

Critically Ill ◽

Chlorhexidine Gluconate ◽

Surgical Intensive Care Unit ◽

Surgical Intensive Care ◽

Telemetry Unit ◽

Health Care Associated Infections ◽

The Impact

Background Critical care nurses take care of patients with complicated, comorbid, and compromised conditions. These patients are at risk for health care–associated infections, which affect patients’ lives and health care systems in various ways. Objective To gauge the impact of routinely bathing patients with 4% chlorhexidine gluconate solution on the incidence of health care–associated infections in a medical-surgical intensive care unit and a postoperative telemetry unit; to outline the framework for a hospital-wide presurgical chlorhexidine gluconate bathing program and share the results. Methods A standard bathing protocol using a 4% chlorhexidine gluconate solution was developed. The protocol included time studies, training, monitoring, and surveillance of health care–associated infections. Results Consistent patient bathing with 4% chlorhexidine gluconate was associated with a 52% reduction in health care–associated infections in a medical-surgical intensive care unit. The same program in a postoperative telemetry unit yielded a 45% reduction in health care–associated infections. Conclusion A comprehensive daily 4% chlorhexidine gluconate bathing program can be implemented with standardized protocols and detailed instructions and can significantly reduce the incidence of health care–associated infections in intensive care unit and non–intensive care unit hospital settings.

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Nursing Care for a Patient with NSTEMI Admitted to the Coronary Care Unit for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention — A Case Study

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development ◽

10.29037/ajstd.70 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

M. S. SITI MARYATI ◽

R. (II) P. DIOSO

Keyword(s):

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention ◽

Nursing Care ◽

Vital Signs ◽

Coronary Intervention ◽

Care Plan ◽

Drug Eluting Stent ◽

Cardiac Catheter ◽

Telemetry Unit ◽

Percutaneous Coronary ◽

Catheter Laboratory

This case studyaims to demonstrateclinical nursing skills to a patient with myocardial infarction admitted for percutaneous coronary intervention. Nursing care for this patient startedwith a physical assessment and laboratory invesigation analysis. This evaluation was necessary to develop a nursing care plan. The activities in the ward enumerated the medications provided, and the details of the vital signs monitored hourly. The patient was sent to cardiac catheter laboratory at 1030H. From the cardiac catheter laboratory post-percutaneouscoronary intervention to the mid-right coronary artery (1 Drug-Eluting Stent) he was transferred out to Telemetry unit on 11 August2016 at 1500H with Terumo band hemostatic device through radial approach

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