Monitoring of bedridden patients: Development of a fall detection tool

• Tipo: Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional
• Data: 2013

Autores

vilas-boas, m (Autor) Outra; silva, p (Autor) Outra; cunha, sr (Autor) Outra; correia, mv (Autor) FEUP

Ata de Conferência Internacional

Título: Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Páginas: 4742-4745

35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE-Engineering-in-Medicine-and-Biology-Society (EMBC)

Osaka, JAPAN, JUL 03-07, 2013

Indexação

ISI Web of Knowledge - 1 Citação

Scopus - 1 Citação

Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias > Biotecnologia ambiental

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-008-P6Y

DOI: 10.1109/embc.2013.6610607

Abstract (EN): Falls of patients are an important issue in hospitals nowadays; it causes severe injuries, increases hospitalization time and treatment costs. The detection of a fall, in time, provides faster rescue to the patient, preventing more serious injuries, as well as saving nursing time. The MovinSense (R) is an electronic device designed for monitoring patients to prevent pressure sores, and the main goal of this work was to develop a new tool for this device, with the purpose of detecting if the patient has fallen from the hospital bed, without changing any of the device's original features. Experiments for gathering data samples of inertial signals of falling from the bed were obtained using the device. For fall detection a sensitivity of 72% and specificity of 100% were reached. Another algorithm was developed to detect if the patient got out of his/her bed.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 4