Study and Analysis of Patient Monitoring Compatibility with LabVIEW

Abstract

Current patient monitoring systems are based on embedded systems hardware and employs complex software algorithms. Large numbers of preventable deaths occur in hospitals each year, due to adverse events such as cardiac arrest and unplanned admission into Intensive Care Units (ICUs) from other hospital wards. The development of such patient monitoring systems is time consumption. Patient monitoring using LabVIEW has been considered for improving the quality of healthcare to an increased number of patients, including those suffering from physical and cognitive disabilities. For such patients, there is a need to design a comprehensive LabVIEW patient monitoring system.

Development of patient monitoring system in LabVIEW saves a lot of time using its interactive GUI interface. LabVIEW offers design and analysis all together in one package. The system can be tested along with the design phase for its reliability. The design files can then be embedded directly in the micro-controller for ease of development. In this work the study has been presented to compare of the patient monitoring system implementation in LabVIEW with its equivalent general approach to hardware implementation.