• DocumentCode
    3571653
  • Title

    RFID Tracking to Study Clinical Activity in the Operating Room

  • Author

    Parry, David ; Houliston, Bryan ; Foy, John

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Comput. & Math. Sci., Auckland Univ. of Technol., Auckland, New Zealand
  • fYear
    2014
  • Firstpage
    349
  • Lastpage
    354
  • Abstract
    Measuring activity in the operating theatre is a difficult but important task. Using ultra wideband active RFID tags (UWB) we were able to track an anesthetist and anesthetic technician during a simulated operation. A number of parameters were calculated including gaze direction, distance travelled and separation were calculated. Some characteristic movements were identified, including head and torso rotation. Ultra wideband RFID may form part of a suite of sensors that can begin to identify activity during operations.
  • Keywords
    biomedical measurement; patient treatment; radiofrequency identification; sensors; anesthesia; clinical activity measurement; head rotation; operating room; sensors; torso rotation; ultrawideband active RFID tags; Drugs; Monitoring; Radiofrequency identification; Surgery; Torso; Vectors; Activity Analysis; Anesthesia; RFID;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Healthcare Informatics (ICHI), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICHI.2014.55
  • Filename
    7052510
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3571653