Title :
Custom active RFID solution for children tracking and identifying in a resuscitation ward
Author :
Iadanza, Ernesto ; Dori, Fabrizio
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun., Univ. degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
Abstract :
In this work is discussed an active RFId system to track and identify patients in a children´s critical care ward. The technical solutions may be very different according to the patients type, age and cognitive conditions and according to the hospital shapes. The proposed system to track and identify patients has been developed taking into account all the constraints induced by the particular environment. The system is composed of five different hardware devices and a tracking software, purposely designed and realized.
Keywords :
biomedical communication; medical computing; patient care; patient monitoring; radiofrequency identification; RFId system; children tracking; critical care ward; hardware devices; patient identification; patient monitoring; resuscitation ward; tracking software; Child; Hospital Units; Humans; Radio Frequency Identification Device; Resuscitation; Software;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3296-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333497