Objectives This study aimed to derive specific user requirements and barriers in a real medical environment to define the essential elements and functions of two types of point-of-care (POC) robot: a telepresence robot as a tool for teleconsultation, and a bedside robot to provide emotional care for patients. Methods An analysis of user requirements was conducted; user needs were gathered and...

immunosuppressants require therapeutic drug monitoring because of their narrow therapeutic index and significant inter-individual variability in blood concentrations. this variability can be because of factors like drug-nutrient interactions, drug-disease interactions, renal-insufficiency, inflammation and infection, gender, age, polymorphism and liver mass. drug monitoring is widely practiced ...

Radiotherapy is an effective treatment method for cancers. During radiation treatment, a patient must be in the same position from the start to the end of radiation treatment. Patient movements are usually monitored by the radiation technologists through the closed circuit television (CCTV) during treatment. If the patient makes a small movement, it is difficult to be noticed by them. In the pr...

BACKGROUND ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is considered the gold standard for the diagnostic confirmation of resistant hypertension (RH). However, home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) has been considered an option, because of its lower cost and greater comfort. OBJECTIVE to compare the values obtained by HBPM with those obtained by ABPM in the identification of patients with res...

BACKGROUND Body mass index (BMI) is known to vary by individual characteristics, but little is known about whether BMI varies by school and by school characteristics. METHODS Nationally representative samples of United States schools and students are used to determine the extent to which BMI and percent of students at or above the 85th percentile of BMI vary by school and by school characteri...

In case of critically ill patient, it requires monitoring the patient in hospital for 24*7 bases so in order to overcome this problem, a system is designed with wireless physiological monitoring system. This paper is focused on monitoring of remote patients, after he/she is discharged from hospital. The PIC microcontroller based patient monitoring system offers a reliable, energy efficient and ...

The wide availability of high bandwidth public wireless networks as well as the miniaturisation of medical sensors and network access hardware allow the development of advanced ambulant patient monitoring systems. The MobiHealth project developed a complete system and service that allows the continuous monitoring of vital signals and their transmission to the health care institutes in real time...

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 (EKG), phonocardiograms (PCG) and temperature. The signals are transmitted by a RF carrier, received and read into a personal computer through a parallel port interfa...