A warning system based on the RFID technology for running-out of injection fluid

Author

Huang, Chi-Fang ; Lin, Jen-Hung

Author_Institution

Inst. of Commun. Eng., Tatung Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011

Firstpage

2212

Lastpage

2215

Abstract

For providing an automatic warning system of running-out of injection fluid, RFID technology is applied in this work to propose an infrastructure with low cost to help nurses and patient´s company. Specially, a RFID tag is designed and attached on a bag of intravenous drip to demonstrate the benefits in the present system. The main idea of this system is that, tag is disabled when the bag is not empty because of the EM loading due to the liquid contained. The bag can be any kind in the current market and be without any electronic attachment or modification. LAN (Local Area Network) is also applied as a part of this infrastructure for data transmission.

Keywords

alarm systems; data communication; local area networks; medical computing; patient treatment; radiofrequency identification; LAN; RFID technology; automatic warning system; data transmission; injection fluid; intravenous drip; local area network; Dipole antennas; Fluids; Hospitals; Monitoring; Radiofrequency identification; RFID; RFID reader; Tag antenna; intravenous drip LAN (Local Area Network); Clinical Alarms; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Infusions, Intravenous; Microwaves; Patient Safety; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Point-of-Care Systems; Radar; Radio Frequency Identification Device; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4121-1

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090418

Filename

6090418