Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Based Medical Systems, 1998. Proceedings. 11th IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Lubbock, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8564-6
DOI :
10.1109/CBMS.1998.701358
