Wireless telemetry for oxygen saturation measurements

Author

Polk, Todd ; Walker, William ; Hande, Abhiman ; Bhatia, Dinesh

Author_Institution

Erik Jonsson Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX

fYear

2006

fDate

Nov. 29 2006-Dec. 1 2006

Firstpage

174

Lastpage

177

Abstract

A system to remotely monitor a patientpsilas oxygen saturation (%SpO₂) levels is described. The data was continuously measured using a pulse oximeter and then transferred to a central monitoring station via a wireless sensor network for storage and display. Crossbow MICAz motes were programmed to serve as the network nodes. One mote was interfaced to the pulse oximeter for data acquisition and the others were utilized to route the %SpO₂ data to the monitoring station. A user-friendly graphical user interface was developed to capture and display incoming measurements for all patients being monitored. Test results indicated high accuracy in the measurements.

Keywords

biomedical measurement; biomedical telemetry; graphical user interfaces; medical computing; oxygen; patient monitoring; wireless sensor networks; graphical user interface; oxygen saturation measurements; patient monitor; pulse oximeter; wireless sensor network; wireless telemetry; Base stations; Batteries; Biomedical monitoring; Graphical user interfaces; Patient monitoring; Pulse measurements; Remote monitoring; Routing; Telemetry; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, 2006. BioCAS 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0436-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0437-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIOCAS.2006.4600336

Filename

4600336