4th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Research Article

A low-power simplified-MEWS scoring device for patient monitoring

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8870,
        author={Dirk de Jager and Evangelos B Mazomenos and Anindo K Banerjee and Koushik Maharatna and Jeffrey S Reeve},
        title={A low-power simplified-MEWS scoring device for patient monitoring},
        proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare},
        proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH},
        year={2010},
        month={6},
        keywords={Alarm systems Biomedical monitoring Body sensor networks Computer science Computerized monitoring Hospitals Medical services Patient monitoring Sensor systems Wireless sensor networks},
        doi={10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8870}
    }
    
  • Dirk de Jager
    Evangelos B Mazomenos
    Anindo K Banerjee
    Koushik Maharatna
    Jeffrey S Reeve
    Year: 2010
    A low-power simplified-MEWS scoring device for patient monitoring
    PERVASIVEHEALTH
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2010.8870
Dirk de Jager1,*, Evangelos B Mazomenos1,*, Anindo K Banerjee2, Koushik Maharatna1,*, Jeffrey S Reeve1,*
  • 1: School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton
  • 2: Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust
*Contact email: ddj07r@ecs.soton.ac.uk, ebm07r@ecs.soton.ac.uk, km3@ecs.soton.ac.uk, jsr@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Abstract

The Modified Early Warning System is a paper based system used in general wards of hospitals to monitor patients health during the duration of the patient stay. Using this system, patient deterioration/improvement can rapidly be detected so as to assist and alert healthcare providers. In this paper we describe a simplified MEWS device which assists healthcare providers in assessing several of the patients vitals quantitatively, so as to allow the provider to focus on a qualitative assessment of the patient