With slight modifications, the prototype can also be applied in other areas, such as applications involving early diagnosis of cardiac anomalies in athletes, or for telemedicine, to monitor patients in thetheir homes, thus reducing the time they must remain admitted to the hospital. The information management system stores all of the patient's information for possible studies later, such as the analysis of how a particular patient's level of physical activity affects the quality of the electrocardiogram.
In addition, the program has a series of alarms, configured by default, which are activated when the measured parameters exceed pre-established limits, such as 38º C body temperature or 100 heartbeats per minute, for example.
“All of these alarms can be modified by the doctors in order to adjust them to the specific needs of each patient; whenever any one of these alarms goes off, a message will appear on the screen and, it can also send an SMS alerting the doctor in charge or the proper hospital personnel who, at that moment, is closest to the patient in question”, the scientists point out.
The work done and the results obtained as part of this project have been presented in conferences and published in respected, international journals, such the 21st Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2010) and the IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, respectively. In this journal, the UC3M researchers published an article in which they describe the system's architecture, its development process, the tests that have been carried out, and the validation results.
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