Biomedical Engineering Applications for People with Disabilities and Elderly in a New COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Biomedical Engineering Applications for People with Disabilities and Elderly in a New COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond presents all the biomedical engineering applications in management of people with disabilities or for the elderly, to improve their quality of life and to extend life expectancy. This edited book covers all aspects of assistive technologies including Internet of Things (IoT), Telemedicine, e-Health, m-Health, Smart Sensors, Robotics, Devices for Rehabilitation and Serious Games. This book will be useful for bioengineers, computer science undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and practitioners, biomedical engineering students, healthcare workers, and medical doctors. This volume introduces recent advances in biomaterials, sensors, cellular engineering, biomedical devices, nanotechnology, and biomechanics, as applied to care of the elderly and people with disabilities. The unique focus of this book is on the needs of this user base during emergency and disaster situations. The content includes risk reduction, emergency planning, response, disaster recovery, and needs assessment. The wide variety in topics this book presents offers readers multiple perspectives from a variety of disciplines. The key questions this book answers are, what challenges will the elderly and people with disabilities face during a pandemic, and how can new (or emerging) advances in biomedical engineering help with these challenges? Content includes coverage of smart protective care tools, disinfectants, sterilization equipment, and equipment for rapid and accurate COVID-19 diagnosisFocuses on the limitations and challenges faced by the elderly and people with disabilities in a pandemic situation, such as limitations on leaving their home or having carers and family visit their home; how can technology help?Discusses tools, platforms, and techniques for managing patients with COVID-19 INDICE: 1. Physical activities at elderly in pandemic context during the period of the relaxing conditions 2. Intelligent remote system for identifying the subject's behavior during sleep 3. An exhaustive study on the recent developments in the voltammetric sensors for the ß- blocker propranolol hydrochloride 4. Cloud-IoMT-based wearable body sensors network for monitoring elderly patient during COVID-19 5. Indoor physical activities for the elderly during SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 pandemic 6. Dynamic animated plots for better COVID cases analysis (line, bar, bubble plots using R programming) 7. A secure sweat analyzer based sensor network with fog computing architecture for independent elderly living 8. A smart virtual vision system for health monitoring 9. Applications of physical activities to the elderly before and during the COVID-19 pandemic 10. Recovery activities of the locomotor system during the COVID-19 pandemic 11. The emerging association between boredom, COVID-19 anxiety and aggressiveness in imposed prolonged social isolation

• ISBN: 978-0-323-85174-9
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2022
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés