Applications >> Measuring sleep patterns in chronically ill patients
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The Challenge:
Need to measure how well chronically ill patients are sleeping through the night?
- How restless are they?
- Did they wake up and get out of bed at night?
- How many times did they toss and turn?
- Get 12 hours of data into excel for plotting/charts and analysis.
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Solution:
Use four load cells to place on legs of hospital bed in order to monitor (movement) of patient.
Parts Used:
- 4 iLoad Pro USB 100 lb digital load cells
- WX-400 Wireless USB hub
- LoadVUE software
Total time to setup
- 30 minutes
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