151. Pervasive technology in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A prototype for newborns unobtrusive monitoring
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Patrizia Marti, S. Parini, Franco Bagnoli, Luca Piccini, Giuseppe Andreoni, Oriana Ciani, and Alessia Rullo
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Ubiquitous computing ,Neonatal intensive care unit ,Monitoring ,Electrocardiography ,Computer-Assisted ,Intensive Care Units, Neonatal ,Neonatal Nursing ,Neonatal ,medicine ,Humans ,Physiologic ,Intensive care medicine ,Premature ,Monitoring, Physiologic ,business.industry ,Infant, Newborn ,Infant ,Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted ,Newborn ,Respiratory activity ,medicine.disease ,Intensive Care Units ,Pervasive technology ,Infant, Premature ,Software ,Signal Processing ,Medical emergency ,business - Abstract
Pervasive computing research is introducing new perspectives in a wide range of applications, including healthcare domain. In this study we explore the possibility to realize a prototype of a system for unobtrusive recording and monitoring of multiple biological parameters on premature newborns hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). It consists of three different units: a sensitized belt for Electrocardiogram (ECG) and chest dilatation monitoring, augmented with extrinsic transducers for temperature and respiratory activity measure, a device for signals pre-processing, sampling and transmission through Bluetooth(R) (BT) technology to a remote PC station and a software for data capture and post-processing. Preliminary results obtained by monitoring babies just discharged from the ward demonstrated the feasibility of the unobtrusive monitoring on this kind of subjects and open a new scenario for premature newborns monitoring and developmental cares practice in NICU.