Design of a wearable system for monitoring psychiatric patients to reduce adverse events.
Read ArticleDate of Conference
July 18-22, 2022
Published In
"Education, Research and Leadership in Post-pandemic Engineering: Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable Actions"
Location of Conference
Boca Raton
Authors
Forero Romero, Juan Sebastián
López Bustacara, Gabriel Eduardo
Gomez Portilla, Jhon Andres
Abstract
The present work aims to develop a wearable system to monitor psychiatric patients to reduce the number of adverse events to a hospital-level in mental health services due to the high labor charge generated during the pandemic for COVID 19. A multivariable monitoring system was designed to measure the cardiac frequency, breathing frequency, and galvanic skin response. The system is integrated by a wearable armband impressed on 3D using PLA. Preliminary results show that it is possible to obtain data from different physiological variables through sensors. This can be sent following wireless methods to visualize the patient's health parameters. In this way, is possible to generate an alarm by wi-fi to improve the patients monitoring systems and promote an early atention of abnormal readings.