Wearable Auto-Event-Recording of Medical Nursing.
Noriaki Kuwahara, Haruo Noma, Nobuji Tetsutani, Kiyoshi Kogure, Norihiro Hagita, Hiroshi Iseki · 2003
Abstract: The constant hard work of providing nursing care, including handling emergencies, often causes medical accidents in hospitals. This paper proposes a wearable auto-event-recording system of medical nursing in order to capture the events that cannot be overlooked in analyzing such accidents. Our main concern is that the system be user-friendly for nurses. We have prototyped wearable sensors and conducted experiments. Experimental results show that, without disturbing nurses ’ work, our sensors can record data and reconstruct nursing histories, including the important events that are typically never recorded on written nursing logs.