SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF PRESSURE ULCERS, BED EXITS, FALLS, AND OTHER CONDITIONS

摘要

To provide methods, systems, and devices for monitoring the patient orientation, direction, altitude and location to determine the need for turns and to detect impending or actual bed exits or falls.SOLUTION: A patient-worn sensor 110 communicates with at least one host server through a mesh network of relay antennas to provide data representative of various patient characteristics. The sensor comprises one or more of an accelerometer, a magnetometer and an altimeter, along with optional other sensors. Various user interfaces are provided for managing patient care using the information developed by algorithms processed at the server on the basis of data received from the patient sensors.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1C