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An Improved Flexible Telemetry System to Autonomously Monitor Sub-Bandage Pressure and Wound Moisture
This paper presents the development of an improved mobile-based telemetric dual mode sensing system to monitor pressure and moisture levels in compression bandages and dressings used for chronic wound management. The system is fabricated on a 0.2 mm thick flexible printed circuit material, and is ca...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4279561/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25412216 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s141121770 |
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author | Mehmood, Nasir Hariz, Alex Templeton, Sue Voelcker, Nicolas H. |
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description | This paper presents the development of an improved mobile-based telemetric dual mode sensing system to monitor pressure and moisture levels in compression bandages and dressings used for chronic wound management. The system is fabricated on a 0.2 mm thick flexible printed circuit material, and is capable of sensing pressure and moisture at two locations simultaneously within a compression bandage and wound dressing. The sensors are calibrated to sense both parameters accurately, and the data are then transmitted wirelessly to a receiver connected to a mobile device. An error-correction algorithm is developed to compensate the degradation in measurement quality due to battery power drop over time. An Android application is also implemented to automatically receive, process, and display the sensed wound parameters. The performance of the sensing system is first validated on a mannequin limb using a compression bandage and wound dressings, and then tested on a healthy volunteer to acquire real-time performance parameters. The results obtained here suggest that this dual mode sensor can perform reliably when placed on a human limb. |
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spelling | pubmed-42795612015-01-15 An Improved Flexible Telemetry System to Autonomously Monitor Sub-Bandage Pressure and Wound Moisture Mehmood, Nasir Hariz, Alex Templeton, Sue Voelcker, Nicolas H. Sensors (Basel) Article This paper presents the development of an improved mobile-based telemetric dual mode sensing system to monitor pressure and moisture levels in compression bandages and dressings used for chronic wound management. The system is fabricated on a 0.2 mm thick flexible printed circuit material, and is capable of sensing pressure and moisture at two locations simultaneously within a compression bandage and wound dressing. The sensors are calibrated to sense both parameters accurately, and the data are then transmitted wirelessly to a receiver connected to a mobile device. An error-correction algorithm is developed to compensate the degradation in measurement quality due to battery power drop over time. An Android application is also implemented to automatically receive, process, and display the sensed wound parameters. The performance of the sensing system is first validated on a mannequin limb using a compression bandage and wound dressings, and then tested on a healthy volunteer to acquire real-time performance parameters. The results obtained here suggest that this dual mode sensor can perform reliably when placed on a human limb. MDPI 2014-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4279561/ /pubmed/25412216 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s141121770 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Mehmood, Nasir Hariz, Alex Templeton, Sue Voelcker, Nicolas H. An Improved Flexible Telemetry System to Autonomously Monitor Sub-Bandage Pressure and Wound Moisture |
title | An Improved Flexible Telemetry System to Autonomously Monitor Sub-Bandage Pressure and Wound Moisture |
title_full | An Improved Flexible Telemetry System to Autonomously Monitor Sub-Bandage Pressure and Wound Moisture |
title_fullStr | An Improved Flexible Telemetry System to Autonomously Monitor Sub-Bandage Pressure and Wound Moisture |
title_full_unstemmed | An Improved Flexible Telemetry System to Autonomously Monitor Sub-Bandage Pressure and Wound Moisture |
title_short | An Improved Flexible Telemetry System to Autonomously Monitor Sub-Bandage Pressure and Wound Moisture |
title_sort | improved flexible telemetry system to autonomously monitor sub-bandage pressure and wound moisture |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4279561/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25412216 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s141121770 |
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