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Wearable, multimodal, vitals acquisition unit for intelligent field triage
Author(s) -
Beck Christoph,
Georgiou Julius
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
healthcare technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.45
H-Index - 19
ISSN - 2053-3713
DOI - 10.1049/htl.2016.0038
Subject(s) - computer science , triage , vital signs , wearable computer , auscultation , data acquisition , real time computing , field (mathematics) , embedded system , artificial intelligence , medicine , medical emergency , operating system , surgery , mathematics , pure mathematics , radiology
In this Letter, the authors describe the characterisation design and development of the authors’ wearable, multimodal vitals acquisition unit for intelligent field triage. The unit is able to record the standard electrocardiogram, blood oxygen and body temperature parameters and also has the unique capability to record up to eight custom designed acoustic streams for heart and lung sound auscultation. These acquisition channels are highly synchronised to fully maintain the time correlation of the signals. The unit is a key component enabling systematic and intelligent field triage to continuously acquire vital patient information. With the realised unit a novel data‐set with highly synchronised vital signs was recorded. The new data‐set may be used for algorithm design in vital sign analysis or decision making. The monitoring unit is the only known body worn system that records standard emergency parameters plus eight multi‐channel auscultatory streams and stores the recordings and wirelessly transmits them to mobile response teams.

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