Abstract:

The Objective of Patient monitoring is to have a quantitative assessment of the important physiological variables of the patients during critical periods of their biological functions. Patient monitoring system measures physiological characteristics either continuously or at regular intervals over time and thereby differs from diagnostic instruments that detect existing medical conditions through single testing procedures. The choice of proper parameters, which have information content, is chosen and it is agreed that monitoring of following biological functions are often needed, Electrocardiogram (ECG), Heart Rate, Body Temperature, Non Invasive Blood pressure, Spo2. Along with these parameters Glucose level is also important for patient monitoring system. Because when a patient faints due to hyperglycemic condition admitted in ICU, with out proper testing if glucose is administered to the patient then it may even lead to a fatal condition, so along with the five vital signs monitoring glucose level should also be monitored. The advantage is that glucose level is measured using non invasive technique. It is based on optical technique which continuously monitors the blood glucose levels. Whenever there is a decrease in the blood glucose level (hypoglycemia) or increase in blood glucose level (hyperglycemia) an alarm is produced which alerts the people around, so that they can come to patient’s rescue.