Continuous remote vital sign/environment monitoring for returning soldier adjustment assessment

Author

Genc, S. ; Cleary, D.J. ; Yardibi, T. ; Wood, J.C. ; Stachura, M.E. ; Astapova, E.V.

Author_Institution

Sensor Inf. & Technol. Lab., Gen. Electr. Global Res., Niskayuna, NY, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011

Firstpage

2216

Lastpage

2219

Abstract

A three-stage study to develop and test an unobtrusive room sensor unit and subject data management system to discover correlation between sensor-based time-series measurements of sleep quality and clinical assessments of combat veterans suffering from Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and mild Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), is described. Experiments and results for testing sensitivity and robustness of the sensor unit and data management protocol are provided. The current sensitivity of remote vital sign monitoring system is below 20% and 10% for respiration and heart rates, respectively.

Keywords

injuries; medical disorders; patient monitoring; sleep; time series; Post-traumatic Stress Disorder; Traumatic Brain Injury; clinical assessment; environment monitoring; remote vital sign monitoring; returning soldier adjustment assessment; robustness; sensitivity; sleep quality; subject data management system; time series; unobtrusive room sensor unit; Data acquisition; Databases; Doppler radar; Heart rate; Sensitivity; Sleep; Brain Injuries; Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; Environmental Monitoring; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Humans; Military Personnel; Monitoring, Ambulatory; Polysomnography; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Social Adjustment; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic; Vital Signs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4121-1

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090419

Filename

6090419