Testing of wearable monitors in a real-world hospital environment: What lessons can be learnt?

Proceedings - BSN 2012: 9th International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 79-84

  Bonnici, Timothy ^a   Orphanidou, Christina ^a   Vallance, David ^a   Darrell, Alexander ^a   Tarassenko, Lionel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ECG; electrocardiogram; patient monitoring photoplethysmogram; PPG; pulse oximetry; vital sign monitoring; wearable sensor

Indexed keywords

PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAM; PPG; PULSE OXIMETRY; VITAL SIGN; WEARABLE SENSORS;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; OXIMETERS; PATIENT MONITORING;

SENSORS;

EID: 84862285270     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BSN.2012.31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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