推进患者护理:近红外光谱技术的创新性使用,用于监测神经性膀中尿液体积
Byeong-Il Kang1,2, Aram Kim1,2,3, Sehwan Kim1,2
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Beckman Laser Institute Korea, School of Medicine, Dankook University, Cheonan, Korea.
International neurourology journal
|June 7, 2023
概括
一种新的可穿戴近红外光谱仪 (NIRS) 设备可以准确地实时测量膀尿液体积. 这项创新为脊髓损伤患者提供了一个比定时干净间歇性导管 (CIC) 更方便的替代方案.
科学领域:
- 生物医学工程 生物医学工程
- 医疗器械开发 医疗器械开发
- 可穿戴技术是可穿戴的技术.
背景情况:
- 目前对脊髓损伤患者的指导方针建议定时干净间歇性导管 (CIC),这对个人,特别是家庭以外的人来说,带来了重大挑战和负担.
- 管理膀体积的现有方法可能是不方便和侵入性的,影响患者的生活质量.
研究的目的:
- 开发一种用于实时监测膀尿量的新型数字设备,旨在克服当前基于时间的CIC协议的局限性.
- 创建一个非侵入性,可穿戴的传感器,以改善脊髓损伤患者的膀管理.
主要方法:
- 开发一种使用近红外光谱技术 (NIRS) 的 optode 传感器,设计用于在膀上放置腹部皮肤.
- 在体外验证使用膀幻影来模拟下腹的光学特性.
- 用单个志愿者在体内验证概念验证,以测量与尿液体积变化相关的光强度变化.
主要成果:
- 光极传感器在各种条件下表现出强大的性能,在最大测试体积下保持一致的衰减测量.
- 多重测量和对矩阵对称性的分析显示了精确传感器定位的潜力,这对于深度学习模型至关重要.
- 可行性验证证实,NIRS传感器取得的结果与临床超声波扫描仪相当.
结论:
- 开发的基于NIRS的可穿戴光极传感器能够准确地实时测量膀尿液体积.
- 这项技术为需要CIC的患者的膀管理提供了一个有希望的,不那么繁的替代方案.
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