Physiological responses to hypoglycaemia in diabetes

Author

Pruna, S.

Author_Institution

Electrophysiol. & Biomed. Eng. Lab., Romanian Soc. for Clinical Eng. & Med. Comput., Bucharest, Romania

fYear

1994

fDate

1994

Firstpage

926

Abstract

To extract hidden information both from the real-time skin transient pulse blood (STPB), detected as infrared absorption, and from response waveform as a whole of transient signal of the skin sympathetic sudomotor activity (TSSA), detected as skin electrical impedance, it is possible to distinguish between the sympathetic and parasympathetic cardiac diabetic impairment and to develop a sensitive technique and method of monitoring for the onset of hypoglycaemia. We have designed and built a high sensitivity new PC-based device with integral analog/digital (A/D), 12 bits, convertor, program written in Turbo Pascal programming language and compiled into an executable form, which has the potential to record and analyze the signal in real-time

Keywords

bioelectric phenomena; biomedical measurement; blood; cardiology; computerised monitoring; electric impedance measurement; light absorption; medical signal processing; microcomputer applications; patient monitoring; skin; 0.5 to 2 Hz; 12 bits; Turbo Pascal programming language; convertor; diabetes; executable form; high sensitivity new PC-based device; hypoglycaemia; infrared absorption; integral analog/digital; monitoring; parasympathetic cardiac diabetic impairment; physiological responses; real-time skin transient pulse blood; response waveform; sensitive technique; skin electrical impedance; skin sympathetic sudomotor activity; sympathetic cardiac diabetic impairment; transient signal; Biomedical monitoring; Blood; Data mining; Diabetes; Electromagnetic wave absorption; Impedance; Infrared detectors; Infrared surveillance; Signal design; Skin;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1994. Engineering Advances: New Opportunities for Biomedical Engineers. Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2050-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1994.415216

Filename

415216