Information
Intradialytic hypotension (IDH) is the most common complication of hemodialysis, occurring in 25-50% of patients. IDH leads to a number of clinical symptoms, including: dizziness, cramping, loss of consciousness, loss of dialysis effectiveness, arteriovenous fistula, blood deficiency in the small intestine etc.
Research shows that IDH not only impacts patients' quality of life, it can also increase risk of cardiac arrhythmia, chronic or acute blood deficiency in circulatory or nervous tissue, and reduce life expectancy.
AcuSense Biomedical using a time series algorithm, vital sign feature extraction, and data collection from dialysis machines and patients to predict risk of IDH. Before a patient will occur IDH, the system alerts nursing staff to enable timely preventative measures. This IDH prediction system can simultaneously monitor multiple dialysis wards in real time and provide accurate estimates of risk. With the aid of the IDH prediction system, nursing staff is alerted in real time to intervene before blood pressure continues to drop.
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Benefits
1. According to the clinical interviews, each hypotension disposal time would consume about 30 minutes of the nursing staff, and in serious cases, renal dialysis may have to be stopped resulting in the disturbance of not being able to eliminate the toxins.
2.Our medical-grade wearable device will upload physiological signals (heart rate, blood oxygen Etc.) to the database via Bluetooth through the Gateway; when the system analyzes that the patient is at risk of hypotension, the predicted results will be sent to the Monitoring Interface, which will pop up an alert window and sound alert. This allows nursing staff to pre-regulate the dialysis parameters to solve the possible hypotension problem, reduce the possibility of blood pressure drop by implementing a multi-bed monitoring system, reduce the risk to patients, improve the quality of nursing care, and solve the extended medical disputes.
3. In the long run, reducing the incidence of hypotension on dialysis can reduce the mortality rate of patients and avoid the cost of other cardiovascular disease complications.
Business Partners
Tainan Municipal An-Nan Hospital、Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital Tainan Branch
Clients
Tainan City Annan Hospital (Clinical Trial)、Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital Tainan Branch(Research Program)
