A remote drip infusion monitoring system employing Bluetooth.
We have developed a remote drip infusion monitoring system for use in hospitals. The system consists of several infusion monitoring devices and a central monitor. The infusion monitoring device employing a Bluetooth module can detect the drip infusion rate and an empty infusion solution bag, and then these data are sent to the central monitor placed at the nurses' station via the Bluetooth. The central monitor receives the data from several infusion monitoring devices and then displays graphically them. Therefore, the developed system can monitor intensively the drip infusion situation of the several patients at the nurses' station.
Graduate School of Information Systems and Science, Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Hiroshima, Japan. m161101@cc.it-hiroshima.ac.jp
Hikaru
H
Amano
Hidekuni
H
Ogawa
Hiromichi
H
Maki
Sosuke
S
Tsukamoto
Yoshiharu
Y
Yonezawa
W Morton
WM
Caldwell
D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D007262:Infusions, Intravenous / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D063187:Nursing Stations; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation*