About the Project

Need Statement
There is a need for an accessible monitoring system that provides relevant data to

doctors who perform abdominal surgeries about the health status of their patients, leading to earlier detection of post-operative infection and edema for better health outcomes.

Project Scope

There is a need for an accessible monitoring system to provide data to doctors who perform abdominal surgeries regarding the recovery of their patients so that detection of post- operative complications, such as infection and edema, can occur earlier. The system will be able to determine if a patient is suffering from edema or infection, utilizing relevant physiological measurements and comparing these measurements to preoperative measurements to determine if any complications have occurred. One important customer need is for the prototype to have a longer battery life and be able to save and transmit measurements to the clinician without patient interaction to simplify the user experience. This transmission needs to work successfully at home and on the recovery floor. The device also needs to identify infection and edema accurately. The goal is to complete a working prototype that has increased battery life, can accurately detect infection and edema, with a simplified user interface by BME Day on April 27th, 2020.