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Non‐contact vital signs monitoring in broiler chickens

The Journal of Engineering, 2023
Measuring the heartbeat and respiration of animals continuously can provide valuable information about their health status. Respiratory‐related diseases are very common in the poultry industry and unfortunately, there is no non‐contact respiratory ...
Md. Shafkat Hossain, Sourav Kumar Pramanik, Atikur Rahman, Shahin Ali, Shekh Md Mahmudul Islam   +4 more
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Factors to Consider in the Use of Vital Signs Wearables to Minimize Contact With Stable COVID-19 Patients: Experience of Its Implementation During the Pandemic

Frontiers in Digital Health, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a huge burden on the healthcare industry worldwide. Pressures to increase the isolation healthcare facility to cope with the growing number of patients led to an exploration of the use of wearables for vital signs ...
Esther Monica Pei Jin Fan, Shin Yuh Ang, Ghee Chee Phua, Lee Chen Ee, Kok Cheong Wong, Franklin Chee Ping Tan, Lydia Wan Har Tan, Tracy Carol Ayre, Chee Yong Chua, Benedict Wee Bor Tan, Khung Keong Yeo, Khung Keong Yeo   +11 more
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A qualitative description of nurses’ problems to monitor and supervise vital signs in COVID-19 patients in isolation room

Jurnal Ners, 2022
Introduction: Changes and deterioration of the condition of Corona Virus Disease-19 (COVID-19) patients are unknown and can even lead to the death of the patient in the isolation room.
Tri Yahya Christina, Suhartini Ismail, Meira Erawati   +2 more
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Relationship between Vital Signs and Asthma Attack Levels of Patients having Asthmatic Episodes

Journal of the Dow University of Health Sciences, 2022
Objective: To analysis the relationship of vital signs of patients experiencing acute asthmatic episodes presenting in the emergency room. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at the emergency department of provincial hospital, in Banjarmasin,
Hammad Matapura, Ainun Sajidah, Heru SWN
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Vital Signs Monitoring Based on Interferometric Fiber Optic Sensors

Photonics, 2022
Due to the improvement of living standards, people’s attention to health has gradually increased. More and more people are willing to spend money and time on health management. This article reviews work on the vital signs monitoring system based on fiber
Weimin Lyu, Shuyang Chen, Fengze Tan, Changyuan Yu   +3 more
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A pilot study to investigate real-time digital alerting from wearable sensors in surgical patients

Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2022
Background Continuous vital sign monitoring may identify changes sooner than current standard monitoring. Objective To investigate if the use of real-time digital alerts sent to healthcare staff can improve the time taken to identify unwell patients and ...
Meera Joshi, Hutan Ashrafian, Sonal Arora, Mansour Sharabiani, Kenny McAndrew, Sadia N. Khan, Graham S. Cooke, Ara Darzi   +7 more
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A review of machine learning techniques in photoplethysmography for the non-invasive cuff-less measurement of blood pressure [PDF]

, 2020
Hypertension or high blood pressure is a leading cause of death throughout the world and a critical factor for increasing the risk of serious diseases, including cardiovascular diseases such as stroke and heart failure.
El-Hajj, C., Kyriacou, P. A.
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Continuous Monitoring of Vital Signs Using Cameras: A Systematic Review

Sensors, 2022
In recent years, noncontact measurements of vital signs using cameras received a great amount of interest. However, some questions are unanswered: (i) Which vital sign is monitored using what type of camera? (ii) What is the performance and which factors
Vinothini Selvaraju, Nicolai Spicher, Ju Wang, Nagarajan Ganapathy, Joana M. Warnecke, Steffen Leonhardt, Ramakrishnan Swaminathan, Thomas M. Deserno   +7 more
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Performance Evaluation of rPPG Approaches with and without the Region-of-Interest Localization Step

Applied Sciences, 2021
Traditionally, the first step in physiological measurements based on remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is localizing the region of interest (ROI) that contains a desired pulsatile information. Recently, approaches that do not require this step have been
Žan Pirnar, Miha Finžgar, Primož Podržaj   +2 more
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Assessment of the feasibility of an ultra-low power, wireless digital patch for the continuous ambulatory monitoring of vital signs. [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Vital signs are usually recorded at 4–8 h intervals in hospital patients, and deterioration between measurements can have serious consequences.
Ahmed, K, Ang, SS, Brett, SJ, Burdett, A, Hernandez-Silveira, M, Mehta, T, Toumazou, C, Weir, R, Zandari, F   +8 more
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