Discussions among the narrative reviews

In the discussion section, I would like to discuss few interesting projects that reported while we were doing literature search. The first is multi sensor assistance called MuSA. Is a wearable device designed for elderly patients monitoring. The system provides with fall detector and user alarm button, heart beat, breathing rate, and body temperature. The other project was about Pendant Sensor. Semi-structured daily activities by 51 older adults were recorded using freely worn pendant sensor. Laboratory gait assessment correlated related with free living, walking, but likely reflected an individual’s best performance. Remote gait impairment monitoring using freely worn devices appears feasible and provide new ways to investigate morbidity and fall risk. The third project is about

OEPS: multi-channel opto-electronic sensor. It was effectively monitoring critical physiology parameters while preventing motion artifacts as increasingly demanded by personal healthcare.

Armband. This is also one interesting device which is a wearable pulse transit time system for 24 hours, cuffless BP measurement and evaluated it an unattended out of laboratory setting. 10 healthy young subjects participated in this ambulatory study where PTT was measured at 30 minutes interval by this wearable system and the reference BP was measured by standard oscillometric, ambulatory, BP monitoring.

In conclusion, I want to summarize our findings into 4 topics. Wearable device, use…versatility, portability. Data collection, telemonitoring. Three, need for standards and guidelines for clinical trials. Four, tremendous potential and strong market. The wearable device are widely used in determining the vitals, monitoring the heart rate, temperature, of physical activities, motion sensors, etc. Their versatility and portability provide great opportunities for providing daily medicine and delicate services. These devices are able to measure vital signals on a small device allowing patients to carried around anywhere and do not worry to stay in hospital. This makes the life of patients more convenient. Wearables can continuously collect data from patients.

It can help researchers to expand the current available database that can be used for study many disease patterns.

Studies evaluating wearable devices lack standards and guidelines. Therefore it’s high time to develop standards to the…so that the wearable devices can be evaluated with the scientific method. Since this tremendous potential and strong market for wearable devices, it is high time to investigate and provide scientific evidence on the actual benefits of these devices in the clinical settings. Thank you.