Decentralized safety concept for closed-loop controlled intensive care

Autor: Jan Kühn, Stefan Kowalewski, Martin Schweigler, Thorsten Janisch, Rolf Rossaint, Rüdger Kopp, André Stollenwerk, Marian Walter, Christian Brendle, Steffen Leonhardt
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Biomedical Engineering / Biomedizinische Technik. 62
ISSN: 1862-278X
0013-5585
DOI: 10.1515/bmt-2016-0087
Popis: This paper presents a decentralized safety concept for networked intensive care setups, for which a decentralized network of sensors and actuators is realized by embedded microcontroller nodes. It is evaluated for up to eleven medical devices in a setup for automated acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) therapy. In this contribution we highlight a blood pump supervision as exemplary safety measure, which allows a reliable bubble detection in an extracorporeal blood circulation. The approach is validated with data of animal experiments including 35 bubbles with a size between 0.05 and 0.3 ml. All 18 bubbles with a size down to 0.15 ml are successfully detected. By using hidden Markov models (HMMs) as statistical method the number of necessary sensors can be reduced by two pressure sensors.
Databáze: OpenAIRE