Filho Itamir de Morais Barroca, Aquino Gibeon, Malaquias Ramon Santos, Girao Gustavo, Melo Savio Rennan Menezes
Digital Metropolis Institute, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte Natal 59078970 Brazil.
Department of Informatics and Applied MathematicsFederal University of Rio Grande do Norte Natal 59078970 Brazil.
IEEE Access. 2021 Feb 10;9:27262-27277. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3058448. eCollection 2021.
There is a global concern with the escalating number of patients at hospitals caused mainly by population aging, chronic diseases, and recently by the COVID-19 outbreak. To smooth this challenge, IoT emerges as an encouraging paradigm because it provides the scalability required for this purpose, supporting continuous and reliable health monitoring on a global scale. Based on this context, an IoT-based healthcare platform to provide remote monitoring for patients in a critical situation was proposed in the authors' previous works. Therefore, this paper aims to extend the platform by integrating wearable and unobtrusive sensors to monitor patients with coronavirus disease. Furthermore, we report a real deployment of our approach in an intensive care unit for COVID-19 patients in Brazil.
全球主要因人口老龄化、慢性病以及近期的新冠疫情爆发，导致医院患者数量不断攀升，这引发了全球关注。为应对这一挑战，物联网作为一种令人鼓舞的范式应运而生，因为它提供了实现此目的所需的可扩展性，支持在全球范围内进行持续且可靠的健康监测。基于这一背景，作者之前的工作中提出了一个基于物联网的医疗保健平台，用于对处于危急状况的患者进行远程监测。因此，本文旨在通过集成可穿戴和非侵入式传感器来扩展该平台，以监测新冠病毒病患者。此外，我们报告了我们的方法在巴西一家新冠重症监护病房的实际部署情况。
