CPC A61B 5/447 (2013.01) [A61B 5/0004 (2013.01); A61B 5/0022 (2013.01); A61B 5/1115 (2013.01); A61B 5/4848 (2013.01); A61B 5/6833 (2013.01); A61B 5/6892 (2013.01); A61B 5/7225 (2013.01); A61B 5/7242 (2013.01); A61B 5/7275 (2013.01); A61B 5/742 (2013.01); A61B 5/7405 (2013.01); A61B 5/746 (2013.01); A61B 5/7455 (2013.01); G16H 50/20 (2018.01); A61B 2562/0247 (2013.01); A61B 2562/046 (2013.01)] | 17 Claims |
1. A system for a user to monitoring a patient, comprising:
a) one or more pressure-sensing devices, wherein each of the pressure-sensing devices comprises a pressure-sensitive region configured to:
be overlaid on one of one or more pressure ulcer-prone body parts of a body of the patient;
and
sense force applied to the body and generates a signal representative of a magnitude of the force,
and wherein each of the pressure-sensing devices is configured to generate data comprising two pressure measurements from different times based on the sensed force;
b) a controller comprising a communication unit;
a computational unit comprising:
a processor; and
a non-transient computer-readable memory comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the computational unit to:
i) obtain the data transmitted by the one or more pressure-sensing devices;
ii) processing the two pressure measurements from different times of the data to generate a processed pressure datum, wherein the processing comprises calculating a time-differential of the data: dP(t)/dt, where P(t) is a function comprising a temporal sequence of the pressure measurements value, pt; and
iii) determine whether the processed pressure datum meets a threshold value; and
c) a user-interface unit comprising an output unit configured to display an output comprising:
the data, or the processed pressure datum; and/or
an indication of whether the threshold value is met by the data.
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