[M-health: trends in wearable medical devices].
This paper focuses on the trends in wearable medical devices for the applications in m-health. The state-of-art technologies for the continuous and noninvasive measurements of physiological parameters, implementation platforms of wearable medical devices - e-textile, and body sensor networks are reviewed here with examples of related recent research projects conducted in different countries. In addition, we introduce our recent research project on the e-textile-based health shirt (h-shirt), which can measure arterial blood pressure noninvasively, continuously and cufflessly.
Teng
Xiao-fei
XF
Joint Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong.
Zhang
Yuan-Ting
YT
D020811:Biomedical Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003020:Clothing; D004867:Equipment Design; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013784:Textiles