Development of a Telecare System Based on ZigBee Mesh Network for Monitoring Blood Pressure of Patients with Hemodialysis in Health Care Centers

In Taiwan, the number of the patients needing dialysis increases rapidly in recent years. Because there is risk in every hemodialysis session, monitoring physiological status, such as blood pressure measurement every 30 min to 1 h is needed during about 4 h hemodialysis process. Therefore, an assist...

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Published in:Journal of medical systems 2011-10, Vol.35 (5), p.877-883
Main Authors: Du, Yi-Chun, Lee, You-Yun, Lu, Yun-Yuan, Lin, Chia-Hung, Wu, Ming-Jei, Chen, Chung-Lin, Chen, Tainsong
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Blood pressure
Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory - methods
Community Health Centers
Computer Communication Networks
Dialysis
Electronic health records
Health care
Health Informatics
Health Sciences
Humans
Medical
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Monitoring
Networks
Original Paper
Patients
Renal Dialysis
Statistics for Life Sciences
Taiwan
Telecare
Telemetry - instrumentation
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Summary:In Taiwan, the number of the patients needing dialysis increases rapidly in recent years. Because there is risk in every hemodialysis session, monitoring physiological status, such as blood pressure measurement every 30 min to 1 h is needed during about 4 h hemodialysis process. Therefore, an assisted measurement on blood pressure is needful in dialysis care centers. Telecare system (TCS) is regarded as one of important technique in the medical care. In this study, we utilized ZigBee wireless technique to establish a mesh network for monitoring blood pressure automatically and data storage in medical record system for display and further analysis. Moreover, while the blood pressure exceeds the normal range, the system could send a warning signal to remind, or inform the relatives and clinicians in health care center through the personal handy-phone system (PHS) immediately. The proposed system provides an assisted device for monitoring patients’ blood pressure during hemodialysis process and saving medical manpower.
ISSN:0148-5598
1573-689X
DOI:10.1007/s10916-010-9513-0