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Pressure mapping bandage prototype: Development and testing

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Main Authors: Al Khaburi, Jawad, Dehghani-Sanij, Abbas A., Nelson, E. Andrea, Hutchinson, Jerry
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2012
Subjects:
Compression
Flexible sensors
FlexiForce
Pressure mapping
Interface pressure
Venous ulcers
Online Access:http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/21434
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spelling my.unimap-214342012-10-18T08:51:37Z Pressure mapping bandage prototype: Development and testing Al Khaburi, Jawad Dehghani-Sanij, Abbas A. Nelson, E. Andrea Hutchinson, Jerry Compression Flexible sensors FlexiForce Pressure mapping Interface pressure Venous ulcers Link to publisher's homepage at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ Medical compression bandages (MCBs) are widely used in the treatment of chronic venous ulcers. They should be applied with a pressure gradient reducing from the ankle to the knee. Users of current medical compression bandages are dependent on their visual inspection of bandages in situ for the amount of extension and overlap in the MCBs to control the amount of pressure they apply to their patient leg. This lack of control of therapeutic dose is unacceptable neither form the clinical perspective nor the scientific one. A possible solution for the lack of control of pressures applied by MCBs may lie in integrating flexible pressure transducers like FlexiForce sensors with MCBs. This paper presents the development of a pressure-mapping bandage prototype to map the pressure applied by compression products at multiple points, and reports on the preliminary experimental validation for this prototype using a pressure-mapping mannequin leg embedded with force sensors. The pressure-mapping bandage was found to report pressures, which agreed with the pressures measured using pressure-mapping mannequin leg in 27% of the cases and was able to describe the same pressure profile like the pressure-mapping mannequin leg in 57%. Results suggest that the pressure-mapping bandage might be suitable to provide clinicians with feedback about the quality of their bandaging in terms of pressure gradient and approximate pressure values. 2012-10-18T08:51:37Z 2012-10-18T08:51:37Z 2012-02-27 Working Paper p. 430-435 978-145771989-9 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6179052 http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/21434 en Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (ICoBE 2012) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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topic Compression
Flexible sensors
FlexiForce
Pressure mapping
Interface pressure
Venous ulcers
spellingShingle Compression
Flexible sensors
FlexiForce
Pressure mapping
Interface pressure
Venous ulcers
Al Khaburi, Jawad
Dehghani-Sanij, Abbas A.
Nelson, E. Andrea
Hutchinson, Jerry
Pressure mapping bandage prototype: Development and testing
description Link to publisher's homepage at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/
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author Al Khaburi, Jawad
Dehghani-Sanij, Abbas A.
Nelson, E. Andrea
Hutchinson, Jerry
author_facet Al Khaburi, Jawad
Dehghani-Sanij, Abbas A.
Nelson, E. Andrea
Hutchinson, Jerry
author_sort Al Khaburi, Jawad
title Pressure mapping bandage prototype: Development and testing
title_short Pressure mapping bandage prototype: Development and testing
title_full Pressure mapping bandage prototype: Development and testing
title_fullStr Pressure mapping bandage prototype: Development and testing
title_full_unstemmed Pressure mapping bandage prototype: Development and testing
title_sort pressure mapping bandage prototype: development and testing
publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
publishDate 2012
url http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/21434
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