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In recent technological innovations in the field of disease prevention and maintenance of patient health have enabled the evolution of fields such as monitoring systems. Heart rate is a very vital health parameter that is directly related to the soundness of the human cardiovascular system. It can be measured either by the ECG waveform or by sensing the pulse — the rhythmic expansion and contraction...
Blood pressure (BP) is one of the vital signs for assessing the cardiovascular health condition of a person. In recent years, the continuous non-invasive monitoring of BP is of great interest in routine and critical bedside monitoring. Previous studies have shown that pulse transit time (PTT), time taken by the pressure wave to travel between two arterial locations can be a potential indicator of...
Apnea (involuntary stoppage of breathing for a while) is a very common phenomenon. While in adults apnea may just disturb the sleep, for neonates apnea can be life threatening. This paper describes a technique of detecting apnea using photo-plethysmo-graphy (PPG). The proposed technique is easily applicable for monitoring neonates on a long term basis for apnea detection since PPG is a non invasive...
One of the world's most leading killer diseases is the cardiovascular disease, which accounts for 16.7 million deaths annually. Out of the total population in the world, about 22 million people run the risk of sudden heart failure. However, saving the lives of cardiac patients can be improved by the emergency monitoring so that the initiation of treatment can be taken up within the crucial hour. The...
In today's fast moving life, with everyone involved in the busy schedule, least attention is given towards one's own personal health. The health condition does not come to the notice until it goes alarming. By that time, they are vulnerable to serous risks. So it is advisable to continuously monitor one's own health so that preventing that serious condition is better than treating it. But continuous...
Patients admitted to the Intensive Cardiac Care Unit are closely monitored by different devices that generate alarms when an abnormality is detected. However, most alarms do not signify a life-threatening event. During a four month period 34,827 alarms were collected electronically. The most frequent alarm categories were related to mechanical ventilation (42.2%), blood pressure (32.3%), electrocardiogram...
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