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ArticleHealthcare technology letters2016

Assistive technology using integrated flexible sensor and virtual alarm unit for blood leakage detection during dialysis therapy.

Chia-Hung Lin, Wei-Ling Chen, Chien-Ming Li, Ming-Jui Wu, Ping-Tzan Huang, Ying-Shin Chen

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Article in Healthcare technology letters, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Chia-Hung LinDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Kao-Yuan University, Kaohsiung City 82151, Taiwan.
Wei-Ling ChenDepartment of Engineering and Maintenance, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung City 81362, Taiwan.
Chien-Ming LiDepartment of Division of Infectious Diseases, Medicine of Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan City 710, Taiwan.
Ming-Jui WuDepartment of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Tainan Branch, Tainan City 71051, Taiwan.
Ping-Tzan HuangDepartment of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan.
Ying-Shin ChenDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Kao-Yuan University, Kaohsiung City 82151, Taiwan.
Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital · TWKao Yuan University · TWChi Mei Medical Center · TWNational Tsing Hua University · TW

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Blood leakages and blood loss are both serious complications during dialysis therapies. According to dialysis survey reports, these events are life-threatening issues for nephrology nurses, medical staff, and patients. When venous needle dislodgement occurs, it takes only <2.5 min of reaction time for blood loss in an adult patient, resulting in mortality. As an early-warning design, a wireless assistive technology using an integrated flexible sensor and virtual alarm unit was developed to detect blood leakage during dialysis therapies. The flexible sensor was designed using a screen print technique with printing electronic circuits on a plastic substrate. A self-organising algorithm was used to design a virtual alarm unit, consisting of a virtual direct current grid and a virtual alarm driver. In other words, this warning device was employed to identify the blood leakage levels via wireless fidelity wireless network in cloud computing. The feasibility was verified, and commercialisation designs can also be implemented in an embedded system.

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assistive technologybiomedical electronicsbloodblood leakage detectionblood losscloud computingdialysis therapydiseasesembedded systemembedded systemsflexible sensorintegrated flexible sensormedical signal detectionmedical signal processingmedical staffnephrology nursespatient treatmentprinting electronic circuitsself-organising algorithmtelemedicinevenous needle dislodgementvirtual alarm drivervirtual alarm unitvirtual direct current gridvirtual instrumentationwireless assistive technologywireless fidelity wireless networkwireless LAN

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PMID30800319
PMCPMC6371816
OpenAlexW2512008916

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