New devices in Neonatal Intensive Care

Children born prematurely they will take care in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) where they’re under to take care up to an array of sensors, each connected by a wire to a patient monitor. It’s a bad to hear that, let alone a hindrance to physical and emotional bonding that is so important in the weeks after birth. Now we are in developing flexible and wireless devices that are able to monitor parameters such as the heart rate, body temperature, and blood oxygenation as well as existing wired devices. Moreover, the devices are amazingly non-intrusive, allowing parents to touch and hold their babies without interfering with the on-going monitors.

The children in the study were outfit with conventional sensors as well as the wireless ones. There is nearly a perfect correlation between the readings, demonstrating that the new sensors can be used effectively in clinical practices. While existing stick-on sensors are able to measure only the heart rate, respiration rate, body temperature, and oxygenation, the new wireless devices can also monitor the blood pressure, blood flow, as well as providing accurate readings while the child is interacting with someone else.

Each child was outfit with two sensors. One is placed on the chest while the other is stuck to one of the feet. This will provides a core body temperature reading, as well as the temperature at the periphery, which can help to identify poor blood flow and spot signs of an improperly develop heart. In addition, the blood pressure is estimates using the pulse wave velocity technique that measures how fast a wave moves from the chest to the feet.

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