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Nursery Medical Upgrade. Less Obtrusive, In-Home Infant M onitoring. Life Experience. Sean (Left) was born 4.5 weeks early. Though he weighed a healthy 6 lbs at birth his lungs were immature and he required some help breathing for a short time.
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Nursery Medical Upgrade Less Obtrusive, In-Home Infant Monitoring
Life Experience Sean (Left) was born 4.5 weeks early. Though he weighed a healthy 6 lbs at birth his lungs were immature and he required some help breathing for a short time. Audrey (Right) was born 8 weeks early. She weighed only 3.5 lbs at birth and required 5.5 weeks in the NICU to monitor heart, breathing and digestion.
Current Technologies • Ventilators: the ventilation machine controls how much oxygen your baby is receiving • CPAP: Continuous airway pressure the bubble CPAP machine produces pressure through the production of bubbles to create this continuous pressure. • Pulse Oximeter Sensor: Strapped to the child’s heal and measures oxygenation through a light reading • Infant Care Bed: Creates an environment where temperature and other factors are tightly controlled. Premature babies have very thin skin and little body fat. Infant care beds help premature babies maintain a stable body temperature • Many others…
Concept Proposal: Ambient Critical Response Infant Bassinet (ACRIB) • An in-home, post hospital infant bassinet • Non-obtrusive oxygenation monitoring • Ambient oxygenation increase function which dynamically responds to the monitor reading or a command sent from the applet • Alerts and updates via iPhone/iPod applet, or website. • Wireless technologies (bluetooth or something similar) to connect the communication/reception modules • Monitored heat production to improve babies comfort.
Purpose: • Provide piece of mind for mother and comfort for child post hospital stay. • Increase newborn child safety in general in the home during sleep • Decrease SIDS or smothering due to low oxygenation • Decrease sickness due to low body temps. • Facilitate monitoring of baby’s other physiological difficulties with future developments/modules