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Design Principle and Proofing of a New Smart Textile Material That Acts as a Sensor for Immobility in Severe Bed-Confined Patients
The immobility of patients confined to continuous bed rest continues to raise a couple of very serious challenges for modern medicine. In particular, the overlooking of sudden onset immobility (as in acute stroke) and the delay in addressing the underlying conditions are of utmost importance for the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10007060/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36904777 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23052573 |
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author | Iliescu, Bogdan Florin Mancasi, Vlad Niki Ilie, Ionut Dumitru Mancasi, Iulian Costachescu, Bogdan Rotariu, Daniel Ilie |
author_facet | Iliescu, Bogdan Florin Mancasi, Vlad Niki Ilie, Ionut Dumitru Mancasi, Iulian Costachescu, Bogdan Rotariu, Daniel Ilie |
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description | The immobility of patients confined to continuous bed rest continues to raise a couple of very serious challenges for modern medicine. In particular, the overlooking of sudden onset immobility (as in acute stroke) and the delay in addressing the underlying conditions are of utmost importance for the patient and, in the long term, for the medical and social systems. This paper describes the design principles and concrete implementation of a new smart textile material that can form the substrate of intensive care bedding, that acts as a mobility/immobility sensor in itself. The textile sheet acts as a multi-point pressure-sensitive surface that sends continuous capacitance readings through a connector box to a computer running a dedicated software. The design of the capacitance circuit ensures enough individual points to provide an accurate description of the overlying shape and weight. We describe the textile composition and circuit design as well as the preliminary data collected during testing to demonstrate the validity of the complete solution. These results suggest that the smart textile sheet is a very sensitive pressure sensor and can provide continuous discriminatory information to allow for the very sensitive, real-time detection of immobility. |
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spelling | pubmed-100070602023-03-12 Design Principle and Proofing of a New Smart Textile Material That Acts as a Sensor for Immobility in Severe Bed-Confined Patients Iliescu, Bogdan Florin Mancasi, Vlad Niki Ilie, Ionut Dumitru Mancasi, Iulian Costachescu, Bogdan Rotariu, Daniel Ilie Sensors (Basel) Article The immobility of patients confined to continuous bed rest continues to raise a couple of very serious challenges for modern medicine. In particular, the overlooking of sudden onset immobility (as in acute stroke) and the delay in addressing the underlying conditions are of utmost importance for the patient and, in the long term, for the medical and social systems. This paper describes the design principles and concrete implementation of a new smart textile material that can form the substrate of intensive care bedding, that acts as a mobility/immobility sensor in itself. The textile sheet acts as a multi-point pressure-sensitive surface that sends continuous capacitance readings through a connector box to a computer running a dedicated software. The design of the capacitance circuit ensures enough individual points to provide an accurate description of the overlying shape and weight. We describe the textile composition and circuit design as well as the preliminary data collected during testing to demonstrate the validity of the complete solution. These results suggest that the smart textile sheet is a very sensitive pressure sensor and can provide continuous discriminatory information to allow for the very sensitive, real-time detection of immobility. MDPI 2023-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC10007060/ /pubmed/36904777 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23052573 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Iliescu, Bogdan Florin Mancasi, Vlad Niki Ilie, Ionut Dumitru Mancasi, Iulian Costachescu, Bogdan Rotariu, Daniel Ilie Design Principle and Proofing of a New Smart Textile Material That Acts as a Sensor for Immobility in Severe Bed-Confined Patients |
title | Design Principle and Proofing of a New Smart Textile Material That Acts as a Sensor for Immobility in Severe Bed-Confined Patients |
title_full | Design Principle and Proofing of a New Smart Textile Material That Acts as a Sensor for Immobility in Severe Bed-Confined Patients |
title_fullStr | Design Principle and Proofing of a New Smart Textile Material That Acts as a Sensor for Immobility in Severe Bed-Confined Patients |
title_full_unstemmed | Design Principle and Proofing of a New Smart Textile Material That Acts as a Sensor for Immobility in Severe Bed-Confined Patients |
title_short | Design Principle and Proofing of a New Smart Textile Material That Acts as a Sensor for Immobility in Severe Bed-Confined Patients |
title_sort | design principle and proofing of a new smart textile material that acts as a sensor for immobility in severe bed-confined patients |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10007060/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36904777 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23052573 |
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