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Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc · Jan 2008
Evaluation of a tactile display around the waist for physiological monitoring under different clinical workload conditions.
In this study, we have assessed the usability of a tactile belt prototype for clinical monitoring of physiologic patient data in the operating room under low workload (LW) and high workload (HW) conditions. In previous investigations, we have evaluated tactile technology in clinical settings and demonstrated that anesthesiologists have enhanced situational awareness towards adverse clinical events when a tactile display prototype is used as a supplemental monitoring device. To further evaluate the effectiveness of our tactile belt prototype, we compared the effects of workload on the performance of anesthesiologists in terms of accuracy and response time in tactile alert identification. ⋯ We found that the response time to tactile alert identification to be faster under LW than under HW, however the accuracy of identification was not statistically different. Participants rated the tactile belt prototype as comfortable to use and the tactile alert scheme as easy to learn. Our findings further support the feasibility and efficacy of vibrotactile devices for enhancing physiological monitoring of patients in clinical environments.
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Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc · Jan 2008
Automatic home care system for monitoring HR/RR during sleep.
This paper described an automatic home care system for monitoring HR/RR during sleep. Pressure signal is measured with a completely unconstrained pressure sensor beneath a pillow; then the signal is digitalized and the data are transmitted to a remote server using TCP/IP via a netbox. The data are processed and analyzed with a wavelet-based algorithm to obtain the heart rate and respiration rhythm during sleep. Through analyzing 180 days' data obtained from a female subject, it was found that this system can be used for daily monitoring heart rate and respiration rhythm during sleep and evaluating the quality of sleep at home.
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Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc · Jan 2008
Removal of ECG artifacts from EEG using a modified independent component analysis approach.
In this paper, we introduce a new automatic method for electrocardiogram (ECG) artifact elimination from the electroencephalogram (EEG) or the electrooculogram (EOG). It is based on a modification of the independent component analysis (ICA) algorithm which gives promising results while only using a single-channel EEG (or EOG) and the ECG. ⋯ Two hundred successive interference peaks were examined in each excerpt to compute correction rates. We found that our modified ICA was the most robust to various waveforms of cardiac interference and to the presence of others artifacts, with a correction rate of 91.0%, against 83.5% for EAS and 83.1% for AF.
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Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc · Jan 2008
Non-invasive measurement of respiratory rate in children using the photoplethysmogram.
Respiratory rate is recognised as a valuable predictor of the severity of illness in children, but it is not currently feasible to measure this automatically in a triage environment. Autoregressive modelling on data from the pulse oximeter photoplethysmogram has the potential to introduce automated breathing measurement into the realm of paediatric triage. Using autoregressive modelling, it is shown that respiratory rate can be extracted from the paediatric photoplethysmogram with a mean error of 3.4 breaths per minute.
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Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc · Jan 2008
Comparative StudyPower analysis of gamma frequencies (30 - 47Hz), adjusting for muscle activity (80 - 97Hz), in anesthesia: a comparison between young adults, middle-aged and the elderly.
This study looks at the role of EEG gamma activity, and the influence of facial EMG (80-97 Hz), in predicting consciousness during anesthesia. It also studies the association between the conventional depth of anesthesia index, BIS (Aspect Medical Systems), and EEG gamma and EMG activity. Data has been collected from 21 adult patients and grouped into young adults (18 - 39 yrs, n=3), middle-aged (40 - 64 yrs, n=10) and the elderly (65+ yrs, n=8). ⋯ There are two exceptions to this. In the young adults group there is a stronger association between BIS index and EEG gamma than there is between BIS index and EMG. In the elderly group, the state of consciousness is equally associated with EEG gamma and EMG recorded from the Masseter, but not with the EMG recorded from Fpz.