John Ivan Rosellon | Marie Joseph Guevarra | Ella Mae Gonzales
This paper designed and developed a real-time patient monitoring system that could monitor the patient’s vital signs (blood pressure, body temperature, heart rate and respiration rate). According to the Philippines Department of Health, on the average, the nurse-to-patient ratio is 1:12. It also said, “If one patient is critical, a nurse must pay close attention to that patient so that the patient will not die. But with fewer nurses on duty, the poor nurses cannot do that because they must look after the many other patients.” Vital sign monitoring could help to decrease loss of life due to early diagnosis of vital sign irregularity, especially to hospitalized patients and home-based patients. Vital signs are an important component in monitoring the patient’s condition. The proponents came up with an android application used to monitor the data results gathered from the wearable device. Only registered persons can access the data result of the vital signs, such as the patient, doctors and relatives. The data results gathered by the wearable device are automatically stored on the firebase database if it has an internet connection. Otherwise, if the internet connection is lost, the collected data results of the vital signs are automatically stored on the local storage of the patient’s smartphone. For every send of the data in offline mode, it will generate a metadata file. By clicking the sync button, all metadata will automatically delete and the results are stored to the firebase database. The user or patient can also generate *.csv file to back up the files. The device must always be connected to the Bluetooth of the patient’s smartphone for the synchronization of data results. This system also notifies the doctors and the relatives about the condition of the patient. If the system detects an irregularity, it will automatically send an SMS notification to the doctor and the relatives of the patient and if the blood pressure is above normal, the system automatically dials the inputted number of the hospital.
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Philippine E-Journals
