scholarly journals Febrile Seizure Detect and Alarm System

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Khader Awwad ◽  
Sundous Hussien ◽  
Rawan Rimawi
Keyword(s):  
Body Temperature ◽  
Medical Technology ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Vital Signs ◽  
Significant Rise ◽  
Alarm System ◽  
Internet Connection ◽  
Precision Temperature ◽  
Present Design ◽  
Wearable Medical

Wearable medical technology is becoming increasingly popular. Such devices have the potential to vastly improve the effectiveness, safety and economy of monitoring vital signs including temperature by both patients and clinicians. The purpose of this paper is to present design and implementation of a reliable, low cost and non-intrusive system that is to monitor a child’s body temperature using high precision temperature sensor and alarm his/her parents or guardian on their mobile phones as well as on a webpage which can be accessed via internet connection so as to avoid convulsions brought on by a significant rise in body temperature.

scholarly journals Identifying human body states by using a flexible integrated sensor

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Jin ◽  
Guoning Chen ◽  
Kete Lao ◽  
Songhui Li ◽  
Yong Lu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Temperature ◽  
Respiratory Rate ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Vital Signs ◽  
Force Sensor ◽  
Diagnostic Methods ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Integrated Sensor ◽  
Flexible Sensors

Abstract Flexible sensors are required to be lightweight, compatible with the skin, sufficiently sensitive, and easily integrated to extract various kinds of body vital signs during continuous healthcare monitoring in daily life. For this, a simple and low-cost flexible temperature and force sensor that uses only two carbon fiber beams as the sensing layer is reported in this work. This simple, flexible sensor can not only monitor skin temperature changes in real time but can also extract most pulse waves, including venous waves, from most parts of the human body. A pulse diagnostic glove containing three such flexible sensors was designed to simulate pulse diagnostic methods used in traditional Chinese medicine. Wearable equipment was also designed in which four flexible sensors were fixed onto different body parts (neck, chest, armpit, and fingertip) to simultaneously monitor body temperature, carotid pulse, fingertip artery pulse, and respiratory rate. Four important physiological indicators—body temperature (BT), blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR), and respiratory rate (RR)—were extracted by the wearable equipment and analyzed to identify exercise, excited, tired, angry, and frightened body states.

scholarly journals Design of a contactless body temperature measurement system using Arduino

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 1251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asif A. Rahimoon ◽  
Mohd Noor Abdullah ◽  
Ishkrizat Taib
Keyword(s):  
Body Temperature ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Vital Signs ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Human Body Temperature ◽  
Body Temperature Measurement ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Temperature Measurement System

<span lang="EN-US">The recent advances in electronics and microelectronics devices allow the development of newly low-cost monitoring tools used by peoples for health preventive purposes. Sensors used in medical equipments convert various forms of human body vital signs into electrical signals. Therefore, the healthcare monitoring systems considering non-invasive and wearable sensors with integrated communication mediums allow an efficient solution to live a comfortable home life.  This paper presents the remote monitoring of human body temperature (HBT) wirelessly by means of Arduino controller with different sensors and open source internet connection. The proposed monitoring system uses an internet network via wireless fieldity (wifi) connection to be linked with online portal on smart phone or computer. The proposed system is comprised of an Arduino controller, LM-35 (S1), MLX-90614 (S2) temperature sensors and ESP-wifi shield module. The obtained result has shown that real time temperature monitoring data can be transferred to authentic observer by utilizing internet of things (IoT) applications. The findings from this research indicates that the difference of average temperature in between Sensor S1 and S2 is about 15 <sup>0</sup>C</span>

scholarly journals A Low Cost Wearable Medical Device for Vital Signs Monitoring in Low-Resource Settings

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 2321
Author(s):  
Muhammad Niswar ◽  
Muhammad Nur ◽  
Idar Mappangara
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Respiratory Rate ◽  
Medical Device ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Vital Signs ◽  
Oxygen Saturation Level ◽  
Low Resource Settings ◽  
Low Resource ◽  
Vital Signs Monitoring ◽  
Wearable Medical

Medical devices are often expensive, so people in low-income countries cannot afford them. This paper presents the design of a low-cost wearable medical device to measure vital signs of a patient including heart rate, blood oxygen saturation level (SpO2) and respiratory rate. The wearable medical device mainly consists of a microcontroller and two biomedical sensors including airflow thermal sensor to measure respiratory rate and pulse oximeter sensor to measure SpO2 and heart rate. We can monitor the vital signs from a smartphone using a web browser through IEEE802.11 wireless connectivity to the wearable medical device. Furthermore, the wearable medical device requires simple management to operate; hence, it can be easily used. Performance evaluation results show that the designed wearable medical device works as good as a standard SpO2 device and it can measure the respiratory rate properly.  The designed wearable medical device is inexpensive and appropriate for low-resource settings. Moreover, as its components are commonly available in the market, it easy to assembly and repair locally.

scholarly journals Intelligent Medical System with Low-Cost Wearable Monitoring Devices to Measure Basic Vital Signals of Admitted Patients

Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 918
Author(s):  
Siraporn Sakphrom ◽  
Thunyawat Limpiti ◽  
Krit Funsian ◽  
Srawouth Chandhaket ◽  
Rina Haiges ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Heart Rate ◽  
Time Delay ◽  
Body Temperature ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Vital Signs ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
And Function ◽  
Short Time

This article presents the design of a low-cost Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN) for monitoring vital signs including a low-cost smart wristwatch that contains an ESP-32 microcontroller and three sensors: heart rate (HR), blood pressure (BP) and body temperature (BT), and an Internet of Things (IoT) platform. The vital signs data are processed and displayed on an OLED screen of the patient’s wristwatch and sent the data over a wireless connection (Wi-Fi) and a Cloud Thing Board system, to store and manage the data in a data center. The data can be analyzed and notified to medical staff when abnormal signals are received from the sensors based on a set parameters from specialists. The proposed low-cost system can be used in a wide range of applications including field hospitals for asymptotic or mild-condition COVID-19 patients as the system can be used to screen those patients out of symptomatic patients who require more costly facilities in a hospital with considerably low expense and installation time, also suitable for bedridden patients, palliative care patients, etc. Testing experiments of a 60-person sample size showed an acceptable accuracy level compared with standard devices when testing with 60 patient-samples with the mean errors heart rate of 1.22%, systolic blood pressure of 1.39%, diastolic blood pressure of 1.01%, and body temperature of 0.13%. According to testing results with 10 smart devices connected with the platform, the time delay caused by the distance between smart devices and the router is 10 s each round with the longest outdoor distance of 200 m. As there is a short-time delay, it does not affect the working ability of the smart system. It is still making the proposed system be able to show patient’s status and function in emergency cases.

EVALUATION OF PITUITARY-ADRENAL FUNCTION IN CHILDREN

1965 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. van der Wal ◽  
T. Wiegman ◽  
J. F. Janssen ◽  
A. Delver ◽  
D. de Wied
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Body Temperature ◽  
Diastolic Blood Pressure ◽  
Linear Increase ◽  
Significant Rise ◽  
Moderate Increase ◽  
Specific Stimulus ◽  
Lysine Vasopressin ◽  
Free Cortisol ◽  
Pituitary Adrenal Axis

ABSTRACT The reactivity of the hypothalamico-pituitary-adrenal axis was determined in 48 children, not suffering from any endocrine disorder. The free cortisol (F)- and corticosterone (B) content of plasma was determined in response to ACTH (clinical corticotrophin; A1 peptide), a corticotrophin releaser (lysine vasopressin) and a non specific stimulus (bacterial polysaccharide) as compared to saline. The two ACTH-preparations infused over one hour in a dose of 5 IU per child elicited a marked increase in both F and B. Lysine vasopressin in a dose of 0.5 IU per year of age similarly infused, exhibited a distinct linear increase in the two circulating cortical steroids, although the effect of this octapeptide was smaller than that of the two ACTH-preparations. Blood pressure was also measured during the infusion with vasopressin or saline. The systolic blood pressure was not significantly affected by vasopressin, but a significant rise in diastolic blood pressure was found. No correlation between the increase in diastolic blood pressure and in blood corticoids in response to vasopressin, was found. The intravenous administration of a relatively small amount of pyrifer caused a moderate increase in circulating F which was significant only at 4 and 6 hours after the injection of the pyrogen. The B content did not increase significantly above that of saline treated control children, presumably because of the relatively weak corticotrophic activity of the pyrogen under these conditions. A positive linear relation between body temperature and time was found. No correlation between increase in body temperature and increase in circulating F could be demonstrated.

IoT based e-Healthcare System to Enable Remote Patient Care based on Cloud Server

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
P.Venu Gopala Rao ◽  
Eslavath Raja ◽  
Ramakrishna Gandi ◽  
G. Ravi Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Vital Signs ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Medical Professional ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Cloud Server ◽  
Significant Area ◽  
Efficient Data ◽  
System Data ◽  
Remote Patient

IoT (Internet of Things) has become most significant area of research to design an efficient data enabled services with the help of sensors. In this paper, a low-cost system design for e-healthcare service to process the sensitive health data is presented. Vital signs of the human body are measured from the patient location and shared with a registered medical professional for consultation. Temperature and heart rate are the major signals obtained from a patient for the initial build of the system. Data is sent to a cloud server where processing and analysis is provided for the medical professional to analyze. Secure transmission and dissemination of data through the cloud server is provided with an authentication system and the patient could be able to track his data through a smart phone on connecting to the cloud server. A prototype of the system along with its design parameters has been discussed.

scholarly journals iNurse: Intelligent, low-cost pediatric vital signs monitoring system

2014 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
N. Lo ◽  
A. Navlekar ◽  
E. Palmgren ◽  
R. Rekhi ◽  
F. Ussher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring System ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Vital Signs ◽  
Vital Signs Monitoring

Simplified rat intubation using a new oropharyngeal intubation wedge

2000 ◽  
Vol 89 (5) ◽  
pp. 1766-1770 ◽  
Author(s):  
I-Ming Jou ◽  
Ya-Ting Tsai ◽  
Ching-Lin Tsai ◽  
Ming-Ho Wu ◽  
Han-Yu Chang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Vital Signs ◽  
Upper Airway ◽  
Postmortem Examination ◽  
Normal Range ◽  
Special Equipment ◽  
Vocal Cords ◽  
Oropharyngeal Cavity ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
Proper Setting

Our new oropharyngeal intubation wedge made from a plastic 3-ml syringe has been used successfully for the expansion of the oropharyngeal cavity and visualization of vocal cords for endotracheal intubation in the rat. All the animals we used tolerated the intubation and ventilation procedures in a series of experiments. After the proper setting of the respirator, vital signs were maintained within normal range. The postmortem examination and measurements in the upper airway confirmed that the endotracheal tube was properly sited and also demonstrated the precise size of the device that should be used. The main advantages of this method include low cost, simplicity, and reliability. Furthermore, because no expensive, elaborate, difficult-to-operate, or hard-to-get special equipment is needed, this technique can be used in every laboratory.

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