SIMPLE: PATIENT MONITORING SYSTEM AND PREVENTION OF PRESSURE INJURY
Pressure Injury; Monitoring; Decubitus change; Prevention; Web system.
Pressure Injury is a type of skin injury that often affects bedridden patients with impaired mobility, especially the elderly. Despite the emphasis on prevention methods, the aging of the population and the increase in life expectancy naturally contribute to the increase in the number of cases each year. Therefore, in this project, we propose the development of a system with the functions of monitoring the position of the bedridden patient in real time, timing the inertia time and alerting the correct moment for the repositioning of the patient, in order to assist the correct execution of the decubitus change protocol (position of the person lying down). To this end, the concepts and contributions of institutions such as The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel and the Supplementary Health Study Institute were used as a theoretical basis. As a proof of concept, it is possible to observe a system with a functional hardware and software architecture, capable of providing information to perform patient monitoring in real time. The information is made available via the web interface, with a three-dimensional image generated through the data collected in the automatic tracking of the patient's position.