Title :
RFID Tracking to Study Clinical Activity in the Operating Room
Author :
Parry, David ; Houliston, Bryan ; Foy, John
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. & Math. Sci., Auckland Univ. of Technol., Auckland, New Zealand
Abstract :
Measuring activity in the operating theatre is a difficult but important task. Using ultra wideband active RFID tags (UWB) we were able to track an anesthetist and anesthetic technician during a simulated operation. A number of parameters were calculated including gaze direction, distance travelled and separation were calculated. Some characteristic movements were identified, including head and torso rotation. Ultra wideband RFID may form part of a suite of sensors that can begin to identify activity during operations.
Keywords :
biomedical measurement; patient treatment; radiofrequency identification; sensors; anesthesia; clinical activity measurement; head rotation; operating room; sensors; torso rotation; ultrawideband active RFID tags; Drugs; Monitoring; Radiofrequency identification; Surgery; Torso; Vectors; Activity Analysis; Anesthesia; RFID;
Conference_Titel :
Healthcare Informatics (ICHI), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ICHI.2014.55
