A foot temperature measuring system for diabetic patients

Author

Lopez Murillo, F. ; Leija, L. ; Vera, Alonzo

Author_Institution

Dept. de Ing. Electr., CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico

fYear

2014

fDate

Sept. 29 2014-Oct. 3 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are a major precursor to lower-limb amputations and a prominent cause of morbidity in patients with diabetes. There are several points on the foot susceptible to ulcers that are directly related to a temperature change. The aim of this study was to design and implement a foot temperature monitoring system. This system is capable of recording the temperature of four foot areas more susceptible to ulceration and then analyzed and processed the data collected. We tested our system over five diabetic and non-diabetic patients. The results indicate that there is a temperature difference between the right and the left foot on some of the diabetic patients.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; biomedical measurement; biothermics; data analysis; diseases; medical signal processing; patient monitoring; temperature measurement; data analysis; data collection; data processing; diabetic foot ulcers; diabetic patients; foot temperature measuring system; lower-limb amputations; morbidity; temperature monitoring system; Diabetes; Foot; Monitoring; Temperature; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; diabetes; diabetic foot ulcers; measure temperature; neuropathy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Engineering, Computing Science and Automatic Control (CCE), 2014 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Campeche

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6228-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEEE.2014.6978333

Filename

6978333