scholarly journals Non-contact heart rate monitoring utilizing camera photoplethysmography in the neonatal intensive care unit — A pilot study

2013 ◽  
Vol 89 (12) ◽  
pp. 943-948 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lonneke A.M. Aarts ◽  
Vincent Jeanne ◽  
John P. Cleary ◽  
C. Lieber ◽  
J. Stuart Nelson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Heart Rate ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Heart Rate Monitoring

scholarly journals Characterisation of Textile Embedded Electrodes for Use in a Neonatal Smart Mattress Electrocardiography System

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 999
Author(s):  
Henry Dore ◽  
Rodrigo Aviles-Espinosa ◽  
Zhenhua Luo ◽  
Oana Anton ◽  
Heike Rabe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Heart Rate ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Delivery Room ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Heart Rate Monitoring

Heart rate monitoring is the predominant quantitative health indicator of a newborn in the delivery room. A rapid and accurate heart rate measurement is vital during the first minutes after birth. Clinical recommendations suggest that electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring should be widely adopted in the neonatal intensive care unit to reduce infant mortality and improve long term health outcomes in births that require intervention. Novel non-contact electrocardiogram sensors can reduce the time from birth to heart rate reading as well as providing unobtrusive and continuous monitoring during intervention. In this work we report the design and development of a solution to provide high resolution, real time electrocardiogram data to the clinicians within the delivery room using non-contact electric potential sensors embedded in a neonatal intensive care unit mattress. A real-time high-resolution electrocardiogram acquisition solution based on a low power embedded system was developed and textile embedded electrodes were fabricated and characterised. Proof of concept tests were carried out on simulated and human cardiac signals, producing electrocardiograms suitable for the calculation of heart rate having an accuracy within ±1 beat per minute using a test ECG signal, ECG recordings from a human volunteer with a correlation coefficient of ~ 87% proved accurate beat to beat morphology reproduction of the waveform without morphological alterations and a time from application to heart rate display below 6 s. This provides evidence that flexible non-contact textile-based electrodes can be embedded in wearable devices for assisting births through heart rate monitoring and serves as a proof of concept for a complete neonate electrocardiogram monitoring system.

scholarly journals Using a behavior analytics approach to change nursing care of extremely premature infants: A pilot study

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Jenn Gonya ◽  
Jessica Niski ◽  
Nicole Cistone
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Premature Infant ◽  
Premature Infants ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Extremely Premature Infant

The neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is, inherently, a trauma environment for the extremely premature infant. This trauma is often exacerbated by nurse caregiving practices that can be modified and still remain effective. Our study explored how behavior analytics could be used to implement an intervention known as Care by Cues and how the intervention might, ultimately, impact infant physiologic stability.

FiO2 control by parents of preterm infants admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit: A pilot study

2018 ◽  
Vol 107 (8) ◽  
pp. 1471-1472 ◽  
Author(s):  
M D Martín-Pelegrina ◽  
A Lorenzo-Rodríguez ◽  
D Lora-Pablos ◽  
B Muñóz-Amat ◽  
C Morales-Betancourt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Preterm Infants ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care
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