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New “Smart” T-Shirt Could Monitor Patients’ Vital Signs Remotely

A new “intelligent T-shirt” designed by Spanish researchers could be used to monitor a patient’s vital signs, location and movements, the International Business Times reports.

What the T-Shirt Can Do

The washable T-shirt uses electrodes and sensors to monitor patients’ temperature, heart rate and activity level. The sensors also track patients’ location and whether they are sitting, standing or lying down.

Researchers plan to add a device that would connect the shirt with a hospital’s network of transmitters and wirelessly send data to an information management system for analysis (International Business Times, 9/25).

Applications

According to the developers, the shirt has a number of alarms that can be triggered by adverse measurements.

The researchers said that with slight modifications, the T-shirt could be used for:

  • Diagnosis of cardiac anomalies; and
  • Remote patient monitoring (Jackson, Fierce Mobile Healthcare, 9/22).

Source: iHealthBeat

 

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