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Applications of wearable technologies in postoperative monitoring and rehabilitation

  • KUANG Shaolong ,
  • FANG Yinfang ,
  • ZHOU Rui ,
  • SONG Han ,
  • LIU Wenyong ,
  • SUN Lining
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  • 1. Robotics and Micro-Systems Center, Soochow University, Suzhou 215021, China;
    2. School of Biological and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

Received date: 2016-11-02

  Revised date: 2016-12-17

  Online published: 2017-02-16

Abstract

With the emergence and development of the wearable technology, the health monitoring to handle abnormal situations can be realized and the effective tools to guide and evaluate the postoperative rehabilitation training can be found. This paper reviews the development of the wearable technology applied in the postoperative monitoring and the postoperative rehabilitation training, based on domestic and abroad studies, as well as the applications in various surgical fields, such as the basic functions, the technical principles, the methodologies and the effectiveness evaluations. It is shown that the wearable technology in the postoperative application is just in its infancy stage, in spite of its wide application areas of the micro-surgery, the orthopaedics, the general surgery, the cardiothoracic surgery, the neurosurgery and so on. To fulfill the requirements of the postoperative healthy monitoring and the rehabilitation in hospital or at home, more studies are needed in the future to explore the feasible methods and clinic validations.

Cite this article

KUANG Shaolong , FANG Yinfang , ZHOU Rui , SONG Han , LIU Wenyong , SUN Lining . Applications of wearable technologies in postoperative monitoring and rehabilitation[J]. Science & Technology Review, 2017 , 35(2) : 55 -59 . DOI: 10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2017.02.007

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