A remote drip infusion monitoring system employing Bluetooth

Author

Amano, Hideharu ; Ogawa, Hiroyo ; Maki, H. ; Tsukamoto, Sanroku ; Yonezawa, Yoshiyuki ; Caldwell, W.M.

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Inf. Syst. & Sci., Hiroshima Inst. of Technol., Hiroshima, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

Aug. 28 2012-Sept. 1 2012

Firstpage

2029

Lastpage

2032

Abstract

We have developed a remote drip infusion monitoring system for use in hospitals. The system consists of several infusion monitoring devices and a central monitor. The infusion monitoring device employing a Bluetooth module can detect the drip infusion rate and an empty infusion solution bag, and then these data are sent to the central monitor placed at the nurses´ station via the Bluetooth. The central monitor receives the data from several infusion monitoring devices and then displays graphically them. Therefore, the developed system can monitor intensively the drip infusion situation of the several patients at the nurses´ station.

Keywords

Bluetooth; computerised monitoring; hospitals; medical computing; patient monitoring; patient treatment; telemedicine; Bluetooth module; central monitoring; empty infusion solution bag; graphical display; hospitals; nurse station; remote drip infusion monitoring device system; Band pass filters; Biomedical monitoring; Bluetooth; Data communication; Low pass filters; Microcomputers; Monitoring; Computer Communication Networks; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Infusions, Intravenous; Monitoring, Physiologic; Nursing Stations; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Telemedicine; Telemetry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4119-8

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346356

Filename

6346356