Unique Contactless Device to Detect Veins and Heart Rate

DOI

10.2991/978-94-6463-252-1_17How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Intravenous treatment; venipuncture; cardiovascular state; Near-Infrared

Abstract

Intravenous treatment has become a common platform to administer fluids into the bloodstream that can address various problems like dehydration, skin burns etc. Venipuncture is not easy on everyone as the patients can be anyone from infants to old age, physically unstable to abnormal candidates. Also, it is difficult to trace a vein in obese and dark people. Heart rate is a crucial measure of the cardiovascular state of humans. To overcome all these problems, a state-of-the-art vein viewer is developed to locate a vein in any part of the human body and also to measure heart rate. The vein finder with certain modifications in its design can be made into a small, portable, handy, inexpensive device with a simple and organized circuit. Generally, electronic, optical sensors or skin-contact instruments are used to calculate heart rate. Our objective is to compute the heart rate of a person by detecting the changes in facial color. Since the blood flow alters the skin color, these variations help in identifying heart rate. Near Infrared Red 0.5W LEDs are used based on the NIR spectrum absorption and scattering properties of veins, skin and processed the image in the studies. This procedure has an immense possibility to enhance telemedicine, health of a person and multiple applications where real-time physiological understanding is required. The design is simple, inexpensive and can be easily operated by anyone with a computer, which eliminates the need for technical skills.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - M. Sreeja
AU  - Chapala Sara Grace
AU  - M. Deepika
AU  - Harikrishna Mulam
AU  - Harish Kuchulakanti
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/11/09
TI  - Unique Contactless Device to Detect Veins and Heart Rate
BT  - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering (ICETE 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 141
EP  - 148
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-252-1_17
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-252-1_17
ID  - Sreeja2023
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