Wearable Biosignal Monitoring System for Newborns

Abstract

In the last decade, the trends in the development and management of national healthcare service are focused telemedicine with the aim of cost reduction. Telemedicine can be useful to reduce cost thanks to early de-hospitalization and diagnosis. These development drivers can be achieved only through the use of new technology oriented to the production of low cost product, which can be integrated with existing system in order to improve monitoring quality and possibility. The application of these technologies on sensible aspects, as newborn monitoring, has to face the main issue of user acceptability. This paper shows the application of a clinical protocol to a wearable system for monitoring the first two hours of life. The results underline the capability of textile electrodes for wearable monitoring and show a great acceptability by both parents and nursing staff.

Defining Requirements and Related Methods for Designing Sensorized Garments

“…However, this method is not a rule. It is a proposal deriving from our experiences in designing smart sensing garment both medical applications (in monitoring mother and fetus in pregnancy, in preterm babies or newborn in the first two hours of life, in cardiologic adults, in elderly at home or in hospital during rehabilitation exercises) and in sport activities (adolescents in their physical education at school or monitoring their lifestyle during the whole day, adults while running, playing soccer and skyrace) [6,7,8,10,11,12,13,14,17,18,20,21,22,23,28,29]. In this process, co-design activities are proposed and carried out for better matching user preferences and aesthetics requirements that significantly vary in relation to age and human anthropometry.…”

“…, actigraphy) into the electronic frontend for signal acquisition, a simple but almost complete compact system for basic monitoring was obtained. This solution can be easily applied to medical and sport monitoring applications [11,12,13,23]. …”

“…Clinical applications are probably most critical due to their requirements in terms of signal quality and device certification. However, by matching these requirements, it is possible to simplify the systems for high level applications turning them into reliable solutions for lifestyle or sport monitoring functions [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14]. …”

Sensorized Garments for biomedical monitoring: Design issues

“…Containment (considering what's inside the form); (8). Weight (as its spread across the human body); (9). Accessibility (physical access to the forms); (10).…”

“…In clinical settings WBS would enable monitoring of patients over extensive periods of time, and they can be proposed to offer affordable and interactive healthcare, anyplace, anytime for anyone which is the future of healthcare. Clinical application are probably the higher level ones but matching these requirements a downgrade towards lifestyle or sport monitoring is possible [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10].…”