Many of today’s technological advances in science have also been “imported” for use in medicine. Some are now used in helping patients with debilitating mental illnesses, like dementia and Alzheimer’s. Those afflicted can now use patient tracking devices Victoria.
Patients suffering from Alzheimer’s and dementia are usually cared for in their own homes or at nursing homes instead of straightforward health care facilities like hospitals and medical centers. The main reason is that these patients are physically healthy except for their mental disabilities. However, notwithstanding their physical health, they can still be in dangerous situations due to their mental health. Without supervision and careful watch-over, they can wander off to other places and find themselves in unsafe circumstances which they can not literally help themselves. Necessity Mostly Baby Boomers, these patients suffering from either disease is growing in number. (It has more than doubled since the 80s, and 1 in 10 families in the U.S. has a member suffering from Alzheimer’s.) Confining them even at their own homes violates their rights, and they need to do their regular daily routines. The danger, however, is that they can wander off and be in the wrong places other than their homes. They can face physical dangers from everywhere and from everyone. To minimize these, relatives and loved ones have chosen to equip them with patient tracking devices Victoria. These gadgets are now mostly equipped with GPS (global positioning system) that tells where the user is exactly positioned. Benefits From a practical point of view, the benefits of providing your patient with a tracking device are helpful. The tracking device can work 24/7 compared to professional care-givers who must rest from time to time and can let their guards down in supervising a patient. People with dementia get lost about 40% of the time, and some 5% gets lost repeatedly. Providing patients with devices (bracelets, pendants, watch, belt clips) that are equipped with GPS can definitely help in minimizing the dangers. Location detection One practical application is that the patient with a GPS-equipped device can be found faster and more accurately than those without any location device in them. For the relatives and care-givers, this reduces the risk because finding the patient is faster than in normal circumstances. However, experts cautioned that this reduces only the stress better than those relatives that did not provide their patients with tracking devices. Risk to injuries and their other forms are still present, with or without the tracking device. RFID tracking On the other hand, hospitals and medical facilities track their patients using RFID technology within the confines of their facility. Tracking devices using RFID have multiple uses aside from locating the present whereabouts of the patient. The technology is that the RFID tag worn by the patient is read by devices within the complex and is reported to a central computer. The tag contains more than just the patient’s position but also his medical history and other pertinent data needed to facilitate his stay in the hospital. Patient tracking devices have several types dependent on their usage.
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