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Semiconductor wireless technology, such as digital plasters, enables continuous passive monitoring and wireless transmission of vital signs for chronic disease management.
Semiconductor wireless technologies, such as digital plasters and implantable sensors, offer promising avenues for continuous, passive monitoring of vital signs in chronic disease management.
May aid remote chronic disease management; leaves open prospective validation before clinical adoption.
With most chronic diseases, monitoring of one or more physiological variables (vital signs) can inform the management of the patient. In active monitoring, the patient adjusts medication dosage according to the value of the measured variable. Passive monitoring is associated with the more advanced stages of chronic diseases and requires the use of wearable sensors. ‘Digital plasters’ which exploit recent advances in semiconductor technology can now provide continuous monitoring and wireless transmission of patients' vital signs for several days. The ideal digital plaster, or adhesive patch, for long-term passive monitoring would incorporate both electrical and optical measurements. Other promising technologies for the future include implantable sensors and non-contact vital sign imaging.
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Tarassenko et al. (2011) conducted a review in Chronic diseases. Semiconductor wireless technology was evaluated. Semiconductor wireless technology, such as digital plasters, enables continuous passive monitoring and wireless transmission of vital signs for chronic disease management.
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