Development of a bedsore prevention system based on LabVIEW

Author

Xiaoxia, Hao ; Runjing, Zhou

Author_Institution

Dept. of Autom., Inner Mongolia Univ., Hohhot

fYear

2008

fDate

30-31 May 2008

Firstpage

506

Lastpage

509

Abstract

A pressure measurement and analysis system was designed based on the conventional bedsore prevention mattress. The mattress is divided into four areas according to the characteristics of human body and the charging and deflating operations of the air chambers in each area are controlled separately by different pumps. Pressure signals in each area are detected by the system hardware, and then analyzed in the LabVIEW virtual instrument. The areas need to be massaged can be recognized by system, not only according to the magnitudes of pressure signals, but also according to the detected immovability duration of each part. The pressure changes can be visually displayed, and that is useful for clinic observation.

Keywords

biomedical measurement; diseases; medical signal processing; pressure measurement; pressure sensors; LabVIEW; bedsore prevention system; immovability duration; pressure measurement; system hardware; Circuits; Hardware; Head; Humans; Immune system; Instruments; Pressure measurement; Sensor systems; Signal analysis; Stress;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine, 2008. ITAB 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shenzhen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2254-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2255-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITAB.2008.4570655

Filename

4570655