Untethered patient monitoring

Author

Bell, Todd ; Long, Randy ; Langham, Jeff ; Kos, Paul ; Parten, M.E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Texas Tech. Univ., Lubbock, TX, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

12-14 Jun 1998

Firstpage

228

Lastpage

232

Abstract

This paper describes the development of an untethered patient monitoring system. The system acquires three basic biomedical signals from the patient, plus a distress call button signal. The three basic signals are electrocardiogram (ECG), phonocardiogram (PCG) and temperature. The signals are transmitted by a RF carrier, received and read into a personal computer through a parallel port interface. Commercially available software can then be used for data display and analysis

Keywords

alarm systems; biomedical telemetry; computer displays; computerised monitoring; data analysis; echocardiography; electrocardiography; medical signal processing; microcomputer applications; patient monitoring; radiocommunication; temperature measurement; ECG; PCG; RF carrier; biomedical signal acquisition; commercially available software; data analysis; data display; distress call button signal; electrocardiogram signals; parallel port interface; personal computer; phonocardiogram signals; temperature signals; untethered patient monitoring system; Biomedical computing; Biomedical measurements; Biomedical monitoring; Computerized monitoring; Microcomputers; Patient monitoring; Signal processing algorithms; Telemetry; Temperature; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems, 1998. Proceedings. 11th IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Lubbock, TX

ISSN

1063-7125

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8564-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.1998.701358

Filename

701358