title: Telemedical Wearable Sensing Platform for Management of Chronic Venous Disorder.
abstract: Enabled by emerging wearable sensors, telemedicine can potentially offer personalized medical services to long-term home care or remote clinics in the future, which can be particularly helpful in the management of chronic diseases. The wireless wearable pressure sensing system reported in this article provides an excellent example of such an innovation, whereby periodic or continuous monitoring of interface pressure can be obtained to guide routine compression therapy, the cornerstone of chronic venous disorder management. By applying a novel capacitive, iontronic sensing technology, a flexible, ultrathin, and highly sensitive pressure sensing array is seamlessly incorporated into compression garments for the monitoring of interface pressure. The linear pressure sensing array assesses pressure distribution along the limb in a real-time manner (up to a scanning rate of 5 kHz), and the measurement data can be processed and displayed on a mobile device locally, as well as transmitted through a Bluetooth communication module to a remote clinical service. The proposed interface pressure measuring system provides real-time interface pressure distribution data and can be utilized for both clinical and self-management of compression therapy, where both treatment efficacy and quality assurance can be ascertained.
authors.affiliation: Micro-Nano Innovations (MiNI) Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 95616, USA.|Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, 95616, USA.
authors.forename: Ruya
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Micro-Nano Innovations (MiNI) Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 95616, USA.
authors.forename: Baoqing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Nie
authors.affiliation: Micro-Nano Innovations (MiNI) Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 95616, USA.|College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
authors.forename: Chengwei
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhai
authors.affiliation: Micro-Nano Innovations (MiNI) Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 95616, USA.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.affiliation: Micro-Nano Innovations (MiNI) Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 95616, USA.|College of Computer Science & Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Vascular Center, UC Davis Health System, Sacramento, USA.
authors.forename: Yung-Wei
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Chi
authors.affiliation: Micro-Nano Innovations (MiNI) Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 95616, USA. tingrui@ucdavis.edu.
authors.forename: Tingrui
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pan
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D014689:Venous Insufficiency / Q000503:physiopathology*
keywords: Capacitive sensors; Chronic venous disorder; Interface pressure; Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS); Mobile medicine; Pressure sensors; Wearable sensing