| Title |
A Development of Remote Medical Treatment System for Stroke Recovery using ZigBee-based Wireless Brain Stimulator and Internet |
| Authors |
윤효정(Kim, G.H.) ; 유문호(Ryu, M.H.) ; 김정자(Kim, J.J.) ; 김남균(Kim, N.G.) ; 양윤석(Yang, Y.S.) |
| Keywords |
ZigBee ; Remote medical treatment program ; Stroke recovery ; Electric brain stimulation ; Wireless communication |
| Abstract |
Ubiquitous healthcare (U-healthcare) system is one of potential applications of embedded system. Conventional U-healthcare systems are used in health monitoring or chronic disease care based on measuring and transmission of various vital signs. However, future U-healthcare system can be of benefit to more people such as stroke patients which have limited activity by providing them proper medical care as well as continuous monitoring. Recently, an electric brain stimulation treatments have been found to be a better way compared to conventional ones and many are interested in using the method toward the treatment of stroke. In this study, we proposed a remote medical treatment system using ZigBee-based wireless electric brain stimulator that can help them to get a treatment without visiting their doctors. The developed remote medical treatment system connects the doctors to the brain stimulator implanted in the patients via the internet and ZigBee communication built in the brain stimulator. Also, the system receive personal information of the connected patients and cumulate the total records of electric stimulation therapy in a database. Doctors can easily access the information for better treatment planning with the help of graphical visualization tools and management software. The developed remote medical treatment system can extend their coverage to outdoors being networked with hand-held devices through ZigBee. |