高気圧酸素治療における温度センサを用いた単回使用カイロの検出に関する研究開発

Abstract

The hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is administered for sudden deafness， intestinal obstruction, carbon monoxide poisoning. If flammable materials such as silk, wool, synthetic textile materials or disposable body warmer which utilizing the exothermic reaction were brought into the HBOT monoplace chamber, it may cause fire or explosion. In order to avoid such accidents, the patient should understand the therapy principle and the dangerousness of such materials, and also the medical staffs should check carefully the patient's body whether the patient has such flammable materials involuntarily. Currently, the check is performed by a body search, in addition to visual inspection and oral questions by several staffs. However the disposable body warmer is hard to find especially when it's adhered to underwear because it's very thin and the medical staffs also have to concern the patient's privacy. In this study, we have developed a system which detects the disposable body warmer noninvasively and quantitatively by infrared thermal sensorsThe proposed system may be useful as complement of the current body search protocol.