title: Creating a hospital-wide patient safety net: Design and deployment of ZigBee vital sign sensors.
abstract: Advancements in wireless technologies can enable patient monitors to be far more versatile than ones that are used today. We developed wireless vital sign sensors that operate on a robust, infrastructure-independent, and instantaneously deployable wireless communication network. These sensors were easily and rapidly deployed in a diverse variety of care settings to provide continuous patient monitoring.
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
authors.forename: Tia
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Leo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Selavo
authors.forename: Matt
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Welsh
mesh_terms: D004190:Disasters; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013686:Telemetry