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A Development of Remote Medical Treatment System for Stroke Recovery using ZigBee-based Wireless Brain Stimulator and Internet

ZigBee 기반의 무선 뇌 자극기와 네트워크를 이용한 원격 뇌졸중 회복 시스템의 개발

  • 윤효정 (전북대학교 헬스케어공학과) ;
  • 유문호 (전북대학교 실버공학연구센터) ;
  • 김정자 (전북대학교 바이오메디컬공학과) ;
  • 김남균 (전북대학교 바이오메디컬공학과) ;
  • 양윤석 (전북대학교 바이오메디컬공학과)
  • Published : 2008.03.01
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Abstract

Ubiquitous healthcare (U-healthcare) system is one of potential applications of embedded system. Conventional U-healthcare systems are used in health monitoring or chronic disease care based on measuring and transmission of various vital signs. However, future U-healthcare system can be of benefit to more people such as stroke patients which have limited activity by providing them proper medical care as well as continuous monitoring. Recently, an electric brain stimulation treatments have been found to be a better way compared to conventional ones and many are interested in using the method toward the treatment of stroke. In this study, we proposed a remote medical treatment system using ZigBee-based wireless electric brain stimulator that can help them to get a treatment without visiting their doctors. The developed remote medical treatment system connects the doctors to the brain stimulator implanted in the patients via the internet and ZigBee communication built in the brain stimulator. Also, the system receive personal information of the connected patients and cumulate the total records of electric stimulation therapy in a database. Doctors can easily access the information for better treatment planning with the help of graphical visualization tools and management software. The developed remote medical treatment system can extend their coverage to outdoors being networked with hand-held devices through ZigBee.

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