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Development of a Telecare System Based on ZigBee Mesh Network for Monitoring Blood Pressure of Patients with Hemodialysis in Health Care Centers

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In Taiwan, the number of the patients needing dialysis increases rapidly in recent years. Because there is risk in every hemodialysis session, monitoring physiological status, such as blood pressure measurement every 30 min to 1 h is needed during about 4 h hemodialysis process. Therefore, an assisted measurement on blood pressure is needful in dialysis care centers. Telecare system (TCS) is regarded as one of important technique in the medical care. In this study, we utilized ZigBee wireless technique to establish a mesh network for monitoring blood pressure automatically and data storage in medical record system for display and further analysis. Moreover, while the blood pressure exceeds the normal range, the system could send a warning signal to remind, or inform the relatives and clinicians in health care center through the personal handy-phone system (PHS) immediately. The proposed system provides an assisted device for monitoring patients’ blood pressure during hemodialysis process and saving medical manpower.

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The authors would like to thank the cooperation and help on tests at Department of Nephrology, Yongkang Veterans Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan.

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  1. Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

    Yi-Chun Du, You-Yun Lee, Yun-Yuan Lu & Tainsong Chen

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Kao-Yuan University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Chia-Hung Lin

  3. Department of Nephrology, Yongkang Veterans Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

    Ming-Jei Wu

  4. Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

    Chung-Lin Chen

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Du, YC., Lee, YY., Lu, YY. et al. Development of a Telecare System Based on ZigBee Mesh Network for Monitoring Blood Pressure of Patients with Hemodialysis in Health Care Centers. J Med Syst 35, 877–883 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-010-9513-0

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