Identification and evaluation of parameters for the prevention of pressure ulcers in hospitalized patients

Author

Marenzi, Elisa ; Bertolotti, G.M. ; Cristiani, A. ; De Donno, Fabrizio ; Leporati, F. ; Danese, G. ; Bejor, M.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Ing. Ind. e dell´Inf., Univ. of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

1-4 July 2013

Firstpage

1598

Lastpage

1605

Abstract

The observation and prevention of decubitus sores of patients hospitalized during rehabilitation is an important issue and the commercial devices traditionally used for this purpose seem not sufficient. Therefore, it is necessary to design a new algorithm, implemented in Labview, for the evaluation of these indicators. The program has been tested on a healthy subject and then a protocol has been written to verify the first results on patients. The software shows a good behavior even in a clinical environment and it proposes itself as a tool for the evaluation of pressure ulcers in hospitals and to help medical staff to better take care of such a problem.

Keywords

patient rehabilitation; virtual instrumentation; Labview; decubitus sores observation; decubitus sores prevention; hospitalized patients; medical staff; parameters evaluation; parameters identification; patients; pressure ulcers prevention; protocol; rehabilitation; Hospitals; Monitoring; Sensors; Skin; Software; Stress; Thigh; bilinear interpolation; center of pressure; peak pressure; pressure gradient; pressure sores;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

EUROCON, 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Zagreb

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2230-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUROCON.2013.6625190

Filename

6625190