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Live Demonstration: An IoT SmartWatch-based System for Intensive Care Monitoring

2017
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Nowadays, wearable devices are largely spread in many fields and in wellness monitoring too. In this paper we propose a smartwatch-based IoT system to improve the monitoring efficacy of critical hospitalized patients. The medical doctor assigned to the unit can access patients’ information at any time and from any place by wearing a smartwatch. The bio- sensing platforms, which measure metabolites’ concentration in the patients, are wirelessly connected with a dedicated application running on the smartwatch. In case of anomalous measured values, incoming alert notifications are received to ask urgent medical intervention. In this way, the doctor, or in general the caregiver, can freely move in the hospital areas and perform several tasks in parallel without losing the monitoring of the patients under their responsibility.

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/e90298cb-d019-4f05-b306-3e954c0e6dde

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2017
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/e90298cb-d019-4f05-b306-3e954c0e6dde

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Wearable technology

Wearable technology is any technology that is designed to be used while worn. Common types of wearable technology include smartwatches and smartglasses. Wearable electronic devices are often close to or on the surface of the skin, where they detect, analyze, and transmit information such as vital signs, and/or ambient data and which allow in some cases immediate biofeedback to the wearer.

Monitoring (medicine)

In medicine, monitoring is the observation of a disease, condition or one or several medical parameters over time. It can be performed by continuously measuring certain parameters by using a medical monitor (for example, by continuously measuring vital signs by a bedside monitor), and/or by repeatedly performing medical tests (such as blood glucose monitoring with a glucose meter in people with diabetes mellitus). Transmitting data from a monitor to a distant monitoring station is known as telemetry or biotelemetry.

Intensive care medicine

Intensive care medicine, also called critical care medicine, is a medical specialty that deals with seriously or critically ill patients who have, are at risk of, or are recovering from conditions that may be life-threatening. It includes providing life support, invasive monitoring techniques, resuscitation, and end-of-life care. Doctors in this specialty are often called intensive care physicians, critical care physicians, or intensivists. Intensive care relies on multidisciplinary teams composed of many different health professionals.

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