Clinical Activity Monitoring System (CATS): An automatic system to quantify bedside clinical activities in the intensive care unit

Monitoring clinical activity at the bedside in the intensive care unit (ICU) can provide useful information to evaluate nursing care and patient recovery. However, it is labour intensive to quantify these activities and there is a need for an automated method to record and quantify these activities. This paper presents an automated system, Clinical Activity Tracking System (CATS), to monitor and evaluate clinical activity at the patient's bedside. The CATS uses four Microsoft Kinect infrared sensors to track bedside nursing interventions.

Source: Intensive and Critical Care Nursing - July 7, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: Peng Guo, Yeong Shiong Chiew, Geoffrey M. Shaw, Lei Shao, Richard Green, Adrian Clark, J. Geoffrey Chase Tags: Review Source Type: research