The introduction of reduced and more powerful electronics has allowed the transition of medical equipment such as respiratory support devices from the hospital to the patient's home environment. Even if this move could be beneficial for the patient, the clinician ends up in a delicate situation where little or no direct supervision is possible on the delivered treatment.Progress in technologies...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Head-mounted displays (HMDs) are head-worn display devices that project an information display over the wearer's field of view. This article reviews a recent program of research that investigates the advantages and disadvantages of monitoring with HMDs, and discusses the design considerations and implementation issues that must be addressed before HMDs can be clinically adopte...

In this paper, we propose an intelligent system that is used for monitoring the health conditions of patients. Monitoring the health condition of patients is a complex problem that involves different medical units and requires continuous monitoring especially in rural areas because of inadequate number of available specialized physicians. The proposed system will improve patient care and drive ...

Hospitals need to reduce wait times in emergency rooms to ensure timely delivery of services. This paper provides an in-depth investigation and evaluation of three distinct approaches to provide real time monitoring of patient flow. The three approaches differ in the number and nature of their data sources. The results suggest that additional data sources provide only little improvements in the...

The increasing number of patients needing continuous care is an encumbrance for medical staff. Today patient monitoring system along with wireless medical devices is used to monitor the patients, but still the patients have to stay inside coverage area of wireless devices. In this paper a remote patient tracking and monitoring (RPTM) system is proposed. The system monitors patient's vital signs...

Nowadays, heart related diseases are on the rise. Cardiac arrest is quoted as the major contributor to sudden and unexpected death rate in the modern stress filled lifestyle around the globe. A system that warns the person about the onset of the disease earlier automatically will be a boon to the society. Remote patient monitoring is an alternative to regular home check-ups of patients with cer...

During intrathoracic surgery the negative pressure that normally exists in the thoracic cavity and is necessary for lung expansion is disrupted by surgery. Therefore, these patients need to be provided with positive pressure ventilation. This can be done manually, which can be very labor intensive for the anesthetist, or by the use of a mechanical ventilator, which is recommended. Usually norma...

The minimum variance performance measure is applied to two diabetic patient models under simulated fault scenarios. The Bergman Model and the Automated Insulin Dosage Advisor (AIDA), are controlled in the Internal Model Control (IMC) framework to achieve adequate blood glucose levels. The focus of this paper is to reect the importance and feasibility of implementing a detection and diagnosis to...

The history of monitoring is traced from ancient times until the invention of transducers and computers. The relevance of progress in resuscitation is emphasized. The more recent evolution of electromedical apparatus is considered from single signal detection, display and alarm to multiple signal processing, trend analysis and diagnosis. The aim of patient monitoring is to give warning of early...

The task of discovering novel medical knowledge from complex, large-scale and high-dimensional patient data, collected during care episodes, is central to innovation in medicine. The recognition of complex trajectories in multivariate time-series data requires effective models and representations for the analysis and matching of functional data. In this chapter, we describe a method based on Ga...