Monitoring of bedridden patients: Development of a fall detection tool

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

Autores

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

Ata de Conferência Internacional

Título: 3rd Portuguese Bioengineering Meeting, ENBENG 2013 - Book of Proceedings

3rd Portuguese Bioengineering Meeting

Braga, PORTUGAL, FEB 20-23, 2013

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ID Authenticus: P-006-FJG

DOI: 10.1109/enbeng.2013.6518434

Abstract (EN): Falls of patients are an important issue in hospitals, it causes severe injuries to the patients, 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 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: 6