Wearable Sensors for Healthier Pregnancies

Penders, Julien; Altini, Marco; Hoof, Chris Van; Dy, Eric

doi:10.1109/jproc.2014.2387017

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“…Even fewer studies have investigated the patient’s and provider’s perceptions on the efficacy of employing these technology solutions to continuously monitor pregnancy health and environmental conditions and the subsequent impact on clinical decision-making. 3…”

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“…Wearable sensor technologies generate large-scale, multi-dimensional datasets that can be exploited to identify lifestyle, environmental, and behavioral risk factors in the subclinical phase of an adverse pregnancy outcome. 3 A recent study employed mobile sensors to track blood pressure changes in high-risk pregnant women with hypertensive disorders and demonstrated a relatively high prediction accuracy. 4…”

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Use of wearable sensors for pregnancy health and environmental monitoring: Descriptive findings from the perspective of patients and providers

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BackgroundWearable sensors and other smart technology may be especially beneficial in providing remote monitoring of sub-clinical changes in pregnancy health status. Yet, limited research has examined perceptions among pregnant patients and providers in incorporating smart technology into their daily routine and clinical practice.ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of pregnant women and their providers at a rural health clinic on the use of wearable technology to monitor health and environmental exposures during pregnancy.MethodsAn anonymous 21-item e-survey was administered to family medicine or obstetrics and gynecology (n=28) providers at a rural health clinic; while a 21-item paper survey was administered to pregnant women (n=103) attending the clinic for prenatal care.ResultsSmartphone and digital technology use was high among patients and providers. Patients would consider wearing a mobile sensor during pregnancy, reported no privacy concerns, and felt comfortable sharing information from these devices with their physician. About seven out of 10 women expressed willingness to change their behavior during pregnancy in response to receiving personalized recommendations from a smartphone. While most providers did not currently use smart technologies in their medical practice, about half felt it will be used more often in the future to diagnose and remotely monitor patients. Patients ranked fetal heart rate and blood pressure as their top preference for health monitoring compared to physicians who ranked blood pressure and blood glucose. Patients and providers demonstrated similar preferences for environmental monitoring, but patients as a whole expressed more interests in tracking environmental measures compared to their providers.ConclusionsPatients and providers responded positively to the use of wearable sensor technology in prenatal care. More research is needed to understand what factors might motivate provider use and implementation of wearable technology to improve the delivery of prenatal care.

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“…The patient, as well as their families will profit by these. Additionally, these frameworks give valuable techniques to remotely gain and screen the physiological signs without the need of intrusion of the patient's normal life, hence enhancing life quality [7]. Even though current frameworks permit nonstop checking of patient imperative signs, these frameworks require the sensors to be set bedside screens or PCs, and limit patient to his bed.…”

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Efficient EER-LEACH Protocol for Monitoring the Activities of Pregnant Women Using Wearable Body Sensor Network

Subalakshmi¹,

Murugaboopathi²,

Senthilkumar³

2018

IJET

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In health care monitoring framework, it is important to always screen the patient's physiological parameters. For instance, pregnant lady parameters, like, blood pressure, uterine contraction heart rate of pregnant ladies and heart rate alongside the fetal development to detect their wellbeing condition. This paper introduces a monitoring framework that has the capacity to screen physiological changes from the pregnant ladies. In the proposed framework, controller node (CN) has connected on patient body to gather every one of the signs from the uterine contraction monitoring wearable body sensors and sends them to the base station. The appended sensors on patient's body frame a wireless body sensor network (WBSN) and they can detect the uterine constriction, heart rate, blood pressure etc. This framework can recognize the unusual conditions, issue an alert to the patient and send to the doctor. Likewise, the proposed framework comprises of a few relay nodes which are in charge of handing-off the information sent by the controller node (CN) and forward them to the base station. The principle effort of this framework is to diminish the vitality utilization to delay the system lifetime, accelerate and stretch out anticipated work is to expand the sensor execution. This framework is likewise created for multi-patient observing for hospital healthcare and contrasted with the current systems in view of coverage, energy utilization and speed.

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“…Within the last years we experienced a boom in the public interest in the field of wearable monitoring systems, focusing on fitness and sleep tracking [1]. In the healthcare field the most widespread application of wearable sensors to date seems to be elderly home tracking [2].…”

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A compact electronic interface for electrochemical sensors

Lombardo

Generelli

Tscharner

et al. 2016

2016 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)

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This work deals with the development of an electronic system for portable electrochemical sensing. The presented acquisition module is able to operate in amperometry, voltammetry and potentiometry modes. The system can be optionally linked to a mobile readout device (as smartphone, tablet, etc.) using the Smart Bluetooth 4.1. The system is suitable for a wide range of portable and wearable applications spreading from biomedical to environmental monitoring. The system features small sizes, small weight, and ultra-low power consumption.

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Wearable Sensors for Healthier Pregnancies

Cited by 37 publications

References 68 publications

Use of wearable sensors for pregnancy health and environmental monitoring: Descriptive findings from the perspective of patients and providers

Use of wearable sensors for pregnancy health and environmental monitoring: Descriptive findings from the perspective of patients and providers

Efficient EER-LEACH Protocol for Monitoring the Activities of Pregnant Women Using Wearable Body Sensor Network

A compact electronic interface for electrochemical sensors

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