Paper Info
Title
Development of a telecare system based on ZigBee mesh network for monitoring blood pressure of patients with hemodialysis in health care centers.
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/s10916-010-9513-0
J. Medical Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
dialysis care center,health care center,dialysis.hemodialysis. telecare system tcs.zigbee,blood pressure measurement,blood pressure,h hemodialysis process,medical record system,zigbee mesh network,proposed system,monitoring blood pressure,health care centers,telecare system,hemodialysis process,personal handy-phone system,dialysis
Health care,Mesh networking,Hemodialysis,Telecare,Dialysis,Blood pressure,Medical record,Medical emergency,Monitoring blood pressure,Medicine
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
35
5
0148-5598
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.52
8
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yi-chun Du1639.25
You-yun Lee281.39
Yun-Yuan Lu360.52
Chia-Hung Lin431242.84
Ming-Jei Wu560.52
Chung-Lin Chen660.52
Tainsong Chen7769.86