DIABETIC FOOT PRESSURE MONITOR

描述(改编自申请者的摘要)：该计划将 开发和测试一种新型设备，能够详细监控和 糖尿病患者足部压力的数据记录 日常活动。该设备旨在供医疗保健人员使用 从业者，如矫形师或矫形师，其目标是 通过减少每天施加的重复压力来预防足部溃疡 至糖尿病患者足底表面(如脚后跟)的高危区域 丧失保护性感觉的患者。拟议的设备将是 一种量化工具，提供有关以下方面的有价值的详细信息 循序渐进地对糖尿病足施加局部压力 在几周的正常活动中。还将建立一个数据库 创建以存储此类数据，以便为医生提供增强的源 有关糖尿病足护理的信息。它还能提供百分之百的药效 矫形器的定量测量。最终目标是减少 糖尿病足溃疡导致截肢的悲剧。 糖尿病足底压力监测仪可在线详细监测 监测和记录对疟疾高危地区施加的重复应激 糖尿病患者足底表面无保护作用 轰动一时。它还记录有关在每个 时间和在长达三周的日常生活中所采取的每一步 活动(第一阶段为一周)，为临床医生提供记录 患者按照规定的治疗方案进行治疗。这将是 为改进的、更量化的治疗策略提供数据。一个 减少糖尿病足部溃疡的数量将节省数百人 仅在美国每年就有100万美元。糖尿病足压迫症 监测还将减少糖尿病社区的情绪压力，并 他们的家庭，并消除流动性和生产力的损失 截肢的结果。 建议的商业应用：不可用

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the applicant's abstract): This program will develop and test a novel device that is capable of detailed monitoring and data logging of pressures applied to the foot of diabetic patients during daily activities. The device is intended to be used by a health care practitioner, such as a pedorthotist or orthotist, whose objective is to prevent foot ulcerations by reducing the repetitive stress applied daily to high risk areas of the plantar surface (e.g., heels) of diabetic patients with loss of protective sensation. The proposed device will be a quantitative tool that provides valuable detailed information regarding the applied local pressures to the diabetic foot on a step by step basis during several weeks of normal activities. A data base will also be created to store such data to provide physicians an enhanced source for information on diabetic foot care. It also provides a percent efficacy quantitative measure of orthoses. The ultimate goal is to reduce the tragedy of limb amputations resulting from diabetic foot ulcerations. The Diabetic Foot Pressure Monitor is capable of detailed on-line monitoring and logging of repetitive stress exerted to high risk areas of the plantar surface of the foot of diabetic patients with no protective sensation. It also records information about pressures exerted at each time and in every step taken for up to three weeks of normal daily activities (one week in Phase I), to provide the clinician a record of patient progress with the prescribed treatment protocol. This will provide data for improved, more quantitative treatment strategies. A reduction in the number of diabetic foot ulcers would save several hundred million dollars per year in the US alone. The Diabetic Foot Pressure Monitor would also decrease emotional stress in the diabetic community and their families, and eliminate the loss of mobility and productivity that results from amputation. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: NOT AVAILABLE