The application of wearable smart sensors for monitoring the vital signs of patients in epidemics: a systematic literatu
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The application of wearable smart sensors for monitoring the vital signs of patients in epidemics: a systematic literature review Niloofar Mohammadzadeh1 · Marsa Gholamzadeh2 · Soheila Saeedi2 · Sorayya Rezayi2 Received: 15 July 2020 / Accepted: 27 October 2020 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Wearable smart sensors are emerging technology for daily monitoring of vital signs with the reducing discomfort and interference with normal human activities. The main objective of this study was to review the applied wearable smart sensors for disease control and vital signs monitoring in epidemics outbreaks. A comprehensive search was conducted in Web of Science, Scopus, IEEE Library, PubMed and Google Scholar databases to identify relevant studies published until June 2, 2020. Main extracted specifications for each paper are publication details, type of sensor, disease, type of monitored vital sign, function and usage. Of 277 articles, 11 studies were eligible for criteria. 36% of papers were published in 2020. Articles were published in 10 different journals and only in the Journal of Medical Systems more than one article was published. Most sensors were used to monitor body temperature, heart rate and blood pressure. Wearable devices (like a helmet, watch, or cuff) and body area network sensors were popular types which can be used monitoring vital signs for epidemic trending. 65% of total papers (n = 6) were conducted by the USA, Malaysia and India. Applying appropriate technological solutions could improve control and management of epidemic disease as well as the application of sensors for continuous monitoring of vital signs. However, further studies are needed to investigate the real effects of these sensors and their effectiveness. Keywords Wearable sensors · Vital signs monitoring · Epidemics outbreak · Body area network
1 Introduction Health services due to information technology development have great changes, especially in remote monitoring (Li et al. 2019). Focusing on disease prevention and early detection of high-risk disease disabilities is one of the main goals of using physical sensor networks (Majumder et al. 2017). Todays, the smart systems and developed tools have significantly increased for the instant monitoring among the patients and controlling their conditions (Gries et al. 2018). The ability of such smart systems in storing and transferring data is of great importance in different branches of healthcare (e.g. Telemedicine) (Ha et al. 2018). Wearable systems * Sorayya Rezayi [email protected] 1
Department of Health Information Management, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Health Information Management Department, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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are mainly used for monitoring the symptoms and status of patients, follow up, telemedicine, monitoring of nursing and medical team systems, surgery robots, and many other sy
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