title: Wearable, multimodal, vitals acquisition unit for intelligent field triage.
abstract: In this Letter, the authors describe the characterisation design and development of the authors' wearable, multimodal vitals acquisition unit for intelligent field triage. The unit is able to record the standard electrocardiogram, blood oxygen and body temperature parameters and also has the unique capability to record up to eight custom designed acoustic streams for heart and lung sound auscultation. These acquisition channels are highly synchronised to fully maintain the time correlation of the signals. The unit is a key component enabling systematic and intelligent field triage to continuously acquire vital patient information. With the realised unit a novel data-set with highly synchronised vital signs was recorded. The new data-set may be used for algorithm design in vital sign analysis or decision making. The monitoring unit is the only known body worn system that records standard emergency parameters plus eight multi-channel auscultatory streams and stores the recordings and wirelessly transmits them to mobile response teams.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , University of Cyprus , Nicosia 1678 , Cyprus.
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , University of Cyprus , Nicosia 1678 , Cyprus.
authors.forename: Julius
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Georgiou
keywords: Mobile Client Unit; biomedical equipment; blood oxygen; body sensor networks; body temperature parameters; body worn health monitor; data acquisition; decision making; electrocardiogram; electrocardiography; intelligent field triage; medical signal processing; oximetry; patient monitoring; temperature sensors; vital sign analysis; wearable multimodal vitals acquisition