Vigo Scientists involved in a smart shirt to wirelessly monitor a patient

There is no need cables, tubes or suction cups. If the system in which researchers are participating Gradiant (Telecommunications Technological Center of Galicia) goes ahead, the rooms of hospitals will change their image in the coming years. When a patient is admitted to have hundreds of cables around to measure certain parameters instantly. A consortium of Spanish institutions working on a system that manages the patient monitor without wires.

This is a shirt. The admitted she wears and the constant appearing on a screen. For the time being tested in the short stay unit of cardiology at La Paz Hospital in Madrid, and is working correctly. The shirt gets the parameters of electrocardiogram, respiration, relative, relative position (if you lying or standing), physical activity index and spatial position.

Scientists Gradiant (foundation located on the campus) are responsible for the location of the patient. As the patient need not be connected to monitors, you can move around the hospital. With software designed by researchers from Vigo, the patient can be located at all times. This is useful because if you skip any abnormality in the patient's constant.

The device is being validated, ie being implemented in reality (outside lab) to check it out. Five patients wear it all day. The shirts can be washed and carry two sets of batteries, one works and the other is charging.

Alarm

Thanks to the system that is designed in Galicia, you can have an alarm when a patient leaves the center. It uses a technology called Zigbee, a wireless communications protocol short range, low consumption, because the GPS can not be used indoors.

The project consortium Lobin (Location and biomonitoring of patients through wireless networks in hospitals) consists Gradiant, SIMAV (consortium leader), nuub, Nlaza and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. The idea is that the product can be marketed in less than a year.

Source: La Voz de Galicia
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