Remote monitoring of vital signs in Chronic Heart Failure patients

Remote Monitoring of Vital Signs in Chronic Heart Failure Patients

The chronic heart failure (CHF) affects an ever-growing segment of population and it is among the major causes of hospitalization for elderly citizens. The actual out-of-hospital treatment model, based on periodic visits, has a low capability to detect signs of destabilization and leads to a high re-hospitalization rate. In this paper, a complete and integrated Information and Communication sys...

Remote Monitoring of Vital Signs Using Gprs Technology

In order to improve the way of data collection and workflow of vital signs measurement in hospital, this paper proposed a Tablet PC based vital signs data collection and information system. This system comprises a database server, Tablet PC, and wireless devices such as blood pressure monitor, infrared thermometer and barcode scanner. The Tablet PC and wireless devices are put on a cart to serv...

Remote monitoring in heart failure.

A meta-analysis of remote monitoring of heart failure patients.

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of remote patient monitoring (RPM) on the outcome of chronic heart failure (HF) patients. BACKGROUND RPM via regularly scheduled structured telephone contact between patients and health care providers or electronic transfer of physiological data using remote access technology via remote external, wearable, or implantable electronic...

Vital Signs Variation in Pre and Post Haemodialysis Session among Chronic Renal Failure Patients

Renal failure is a situation in which the kidney fails to function adequately. There are two forms of renal failure acute and chronic renal failure. End-Stage Renal Disease is the final stage of chronic renal failure were in there is a progressive, irreversible deterioration in renal function and the function is substituted by continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), haemodialysis (HD), per...