Abstract

CIFUENTES, Jenny; PRIETO, Flavio  and  MENDEZ, Luis Carlos. SIMULATION OF A NEONATAL MONITOR FOR MEDICAL TRAINING PURPOSES. Rev.EIA.Esc.Ing.Antioq [online]. 2011, n.16, pp.9-27. ISSN 1794-1237.

The design of a neonatal monitor for medical training purposes is hereby presented. In order to do that, the following main vital signs were modeled and simulated: ECG, pulse, blood pressure, CO₂ level, among others. The signals were integrated to a graphic interface that generates different scenarios showing signals of patients with or without pathologies. Simulated signals were validated against real ones and, in general, the error is less than 5%; in addition, the neonatal monitor was assessed by 16 specialists; those doctors stated that simulated signals are of "excellent quality", "truthful" and that the interface is "user friendly".

Keywords : monitor neonatal; vital signs; medical training; signal modeling.

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