Premature Baby Monitor

Abstract

The aim of this project is to constantly monitor the premature babies despite the low ratio of nurses to the babies. This is achieved by the PBM that keeps the nurse informed of the premature baby’s conditions through alarms that go off when critical conditions are reached. For the medical professionals it is of extreme importance to continuously monitor the conditions of the admitted premature babies due to their vulnerable nature. However, in a large setup like a Mulago National Referral Hospital where a single nurse attends to many premature babies, it becomes difficult to keep informed about the critical conditions developed in each of the babies. This project provides a system which will continuously monitor the vital parameters of the premature baby and do data logging continuously. The parameters monitored include the environmental temperature, body temperature, respiration rate and pulse rate. If any of these parameters are out of range, the alarms go off informing the nurse of the baby’s urgent need of attention. The alarms include a buzzer that produces a sound notification and a LED that blinks red.