A smart bed platform for monitoring & Ulcer prevention

Approaches that use software to support the prevention of pressure ulcer: A systematic review

“…They are installed along the mattress and can identify the amount of pressure exerted on them by the patient's body. This technology is used by twenty-six of the approaches, more specifically, the ones presented in [2,14,7,23,21,6,39,15,35,34,27,28,41,40,4,11,13,26,36,17,37,12,9,22,20,5].…”

“…Eleven approaches provide reports that show the body position of the patient in bed [38,34,27,28,41,40,13,26,36,37,20]. Such reports are obtained by using classification algorithms that estimate the position based on the intensity data of the pressure sensors installed on the mattress.…”

“…Two approaches perform pressure exposure management by means of a segmented mechanical moving bed that is activated at intervals to redistribute the pressure over the body of the patient [41,11].…”

Remotely monitoring and preventing the development of pressure ulcers with the aid of human digital memories

“…One such methodology is Yousefi et al's [14] proposed smart bed platform. This approach collects information from various sensors incorporated into the bed, analyses the data to create a time-stamped, whole-body pressure distribution map.…”

“…This approach collects information from various sensors incorporated into the bed, analyses the data to create a time-stamped, whole-body pressure distribution map. It then commands the bed's actuators to adjust its surface profile periodically to redistribute pressure over the entire body [14]. In a similar approach, Yip et al [15] have developed a flexible pressure monitoring system, consisting of 99 pressure sensors on a 17-cm x 22-cm sheet.…”