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A wireless physiological parameter monitoring system with a treatment feedback function during neonatal phototherapy.

Abstract
Objective. Neonatal jaundice is a common condition in the early stages of newborns, and phototherapy is a fast, safe and effective method that is used to treat it. However, recent studies have shown that phototherapy may elicit side effects in infants, such as hypothermia, hyperthermia and dehydration. To improve the quality of phototherapy and the prognosis of patients, the changes in neonatal physiological parameters during phototherapy should be monitored to give better feedback to pediatricians or the phototherapy system. However, the current standard of clinical care during neonatal phototherapy with hard-wired devices limits this realization.Approach. Here, we developed a prototype of a neonatal wearable device, which can wirelessly potentially monitor the jaundice value, transepidermal water loss, skin wettedness factor and body orientation during phototherapy, and conducted prototype validation experiments. We also set up user-friendly interfaces and an analysis system on custom software, all designed to make the future addition of data interfaces for treatment feedback functions easier.Main results. The preliminaryin vitroexperiment demonstrated the effectiveness of simultaneous monitoring of the required physiological parameters. And further suggestions and specific operations are discussed in terms of optimization of the treatment of neonatal jaundice.Significance. It is believed that the established system has the potential to provide a basis for future phototherapy nursing guidelines and physiological monitoring standards.
AuthorsZiliang He, Benjin Zhang, Jing Zhang, Zhenghua Xiao, Ling He, Gang Yang
JournalPhysiological measurement (Physiol Meas) Vol. 44 Issue 9 (09 18 2023) ISSN: 1361-6579 [Electronic] England
PMID37625435 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Copyright© 2023 Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine.
Topics
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Infant
  • Humans
  • Feedback
  • Jaundice, Neonatal (therapy)
  • Phototherapy
  • Fever
  • Monitoring, Physiologic

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