Wearable to Remotely Track Vital Signs for COVID-19

大多数COVID-19检测呈阳性的人被送回家中并自我封闭。2%-8%的COVID-19患者有严重的反应，导致死亡。目前，公共卫生工作者通过逐个呼叫来跟踪COVID-19患者的病情进展。更广泛地跟踪病例是将死亡率降到最低的不可或缺的方法。随着COVID-19患者数量的增加，这种方法变得不可持续。为了消除这种方法，拟议的项目旨在设计，开发和评估一个低成本（<20$）和易于使用的腕带集成多传感器平台。腕带将允许连续远程测量患者的位置和生命体征，如血氧饱和度、心率和呼吸率、血压和体温。测量的生命体征和位置数据将上传到网络（云）上。如果任何生理参数显示风险，该网络将向医疗保健专业人员发送警报。卫生保健专业人员将能够监测病人的真实的时间生命体征和检查病人的病情进展。因此，医疗保健专业人员将能够根据远程接收的数据和警报为患者采取行动，而不是一对一的呼叫。在加拿大，通过远程监测老年人的生命体征并及时为他们提供护理，可以大大减少老年护理院的大部分伤亡。在这方面，所提出的低成本追踪器腕带是支持加拿大医疗保健系统的可行且有效的解决方案。关于隐私，在收集数据之前需要征得用户的同意。项目完成后，iMD Research将迅速部署追踪器腕带，用于患者监测。最初，他们将在蒙特利尔当地的养老院部署大约1000台设备。之后，他们将与当地卫生部门合作，在家中跟踪患者。加拿大恢复正常生活的能力将取决于测试、追踪和跟踪的能力。我们提出解决方案对今后几天的测试、跟踪和追踪工作有很大的帮助。

Most of those who test positive for COVID-19 are sent back home and self-confine. Between 2%-8% of COVID-19 patients have severe responses that lead to death. Currently, public health workers track the progression of the illness for the COVID-19 patients by calling them 1-by-1. Tracking the cases more widely is an indispensable approach to minimize the morality rate. As the number COVID-19 patients is increasing, this approach becomes unsustainable. To eliminate this approach, the proposed project aims to design, develop and evaluate a low cost (<20$) and easy to use wristband integrating a multi sensor platform. The wristband will allow continuous remote measurement of patient's location and vital signs such as blood oxygen saturation, heart and respiration rate, blood pressure and temperature. The measured vital signs and location data will be uploaded on a network (cloud). The network will send alerts to health care professionals if any physiological parameter shows risk. Health care professionals will be able monitor patient's real time vital signs and check the patient's progression of illness. Thus, instead of calling 1-by-1, health care professionals will be able take action for patients based on the data and alerts received remotely. In Canada a large fraction of the casualties in senior care homes can be significantly reduced by remotely monitoring vital signs of seniors and bringing care to them on time. In this regard, the proposed low cost tracker wristband is a feasible and effective solution to support the Canadian health care system. Regarding privacy, consent of the user needs be taken before collecting their data. After completion of the project, iMD Research will quickly move to deploy the tracker wristband for patient monitoring. Initially, they will deploy approximately 1000 devices in local senior care homes in Montreal. Later they will make partnership will local health authorities to track patients at home. The ability of Canada to go back to normal life will depend on the competence to test, trace and track. Our proposed solution can be of immense assist in that effort of test, trace and track in the coming days.