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Monitoring sleep postures can provide critical information when analyzing an individual's sleep quality and in-bed behavior. Furthermore, tracking sleep posture over time can play an important role in preventing pressure ulcers (bedsores) in bed-bound patients who are unable to move and change their position frequently. Pressure sensing mats consist of gridded and flexible force sensors are now commercially...
Pressure ulcer is a major problem for bed-bound and wheelchair-bound individuals specially in regions like sacrum, buttocks, hip, heels, back and head. Once developed, it is extremely uncomfortable and costly. Identification and monitoring of high-risk regions and their pressure distributions help nurses to have information about risk in each specific area of body and reposition patient efficiently...
Pressure ulcer is a critical problem for bed-ridden and wheelchair-bound patients, diabetics, and the elderly. Patients need to be regularly repositioned to prevent excessive pressure on a single area of body, which can lead to ulcers. Pressure ulcers are costly to treat and cause many other health problems, including death. The current standard for prevention is to reposition at-risk patients every...
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