Wearable Wireless Multiparameter Monitoring Systems (WEMUMS) for Resource Constrained Settings

Abstract

Continuous monitoring of physiological parameters using wearable devices have created a huge impact on the critical health care system as well as towards reducing the mortality rate. Most of the developing and under developing countries including resource constrained settings rely on the low-cost healthcare facilities without sacrificing the required clinical diagnosis. This research study suggests the development of first level prototype WEMUMS for resource constrained settings. The framework comprises of master and slave node that consists of chest based dry ECG sensors with accelerometer and wrist-based PPG sensor respectively. All the vital parameter were recorded and transmitted wirelessly to the real-time processor through a blue tooth mode, the vitals are displayed in a mobile app for assessing the patient at cardiac critical care units in the hospital. The designed WEMUMS was evaluated quantitatively using fidelity metrics and qualitatively through clinician’s visual inspection. It was observed from the initial clinical evaluation, the developed prototype still needs to be validated with more patients for clinical assessments before translation of the designed prototype for commercialization.