Key result
IoT-based monitoring detects hypertension in cancer patients more accurately than traditional face-to-face methods.
Why the study?
Anti-cancer therapies carry an increased risk of systemic hypertension, which can lead to cardiovascular complications and vital organ failure if not detected early during treatment.
Does an IoT-based health monitoring system provide accurate real-time monitoring of blood pressure, pulse rate, and temperature in cancer patients?
Does an IoT-based health monitoring system provide accurate real-time monitoring of blood pressure, pulse rate, and temperature in cancer patients?
An IoT-based monitoring system can successfully capture and transmit vital signs to help detect treatment-induced hypertension in cancer patients.
May support remote hypertension detection in cancer patients; leaves open validation in larger prospective trials.
Background: Novel anti-cancer therapies have helped improve prospects of treating patients with various cancer malignancies, therefore, increasing the chance of survival for many cancer patients. One of the major risks for anti-cancer therapies, notable is the increased risk to develop systemic hypertension. High blood pressure also known as hypertension is the pressure of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries. High blood pressure may cause heart related complications and failure of vital human body organs like kidney and many others if not detected early and during the anti-cancer treatment therapies. An internet of things (IoT) based system for monitoring and observing of systemic hypertension before and after cancer treatment has been developed in this work to minimize the chances of treatment-induced hypertension by providing regular readings of critical blood pressure parameters like pulse rate, temperature and blood pressure. Methods: In this paper, an IoT based device using sensors to detect pulse rate, temperature and blood pressure using the LM35 temperature sensor, blood pressure and pulse rate sensors to detect and decode these values and send to the web server for notification and recommend action was analyzed, modeled, designed and implemented. The IoT device was tested to determine its efficiency. Results: Accurate readings of Blood Pressure, pulse rate and temperature readings were obtained and transmitted through an IoT protocol. The values were processed according to expected treatment actions and recommended by the IoT Based Health Monitoring System for Cancer Treatment application server. Conclusions: Using IoT and sensors provides a convenient and easy access to monitoring and detection of incident diseases like blood pressure in patients receiving cancer treatment on a real-time bases. This approach provides a better analysis and detection of blood pressure development in cancer patients receiving treatment and has better accuracy compared to using traditional face to face or physical meetings with the patient.
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Kavitha et al. (2023) studied Cancer treatment-induced systemic hypertension. IoT based health monitoring system vs. Traditional face to face or physical meetings was evaluated on Accurate readings of blood pressure, pulse rate and temperature. An IoT-based health monitoring system successfully transmitted accurate vital signs, offering better accuracy for detecting hypertension in cancer patients than traditional face-to-face monitoring.
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