Wireless preemie monitoring system allows more parental contact

A tiny participant in the Northwestern University study of a wireless NICU monitoring system. (Image courtesy of Science, per a Creative Commons 4.0 license)
A new, less invasive system for monitoring preterm and critically ill newborns’ vital signs would allow parents skin-to-skin contact with their babies when they otherwise couldn’t have it.
The system, designed by researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago, uses ultrathin, skin-like electronic sensing technology to overcome the limitations of traditional systems that require a large number of wired sensors. The researchers developed a pair of sensors that only require water to adhere to a newborn’s fragile skin and allow for untethered monitoring of key vital signs and can streaming data wirelessly it in real time to external devices.
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Source: Mass Device - March 1, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Nancy Crotti Tags: Blog Clinical Trials Featured Hospital Care News Well Pediatrics Research & Development Northwestern University Source Type: news