Smart saline management system

Abstract

Supplying the correct amount of vital nutrition at the correct time is the most fundamental and important requirement for the hospitalized patients. Among those treatments, saline therapy is the most important treatment many patients receive from the hospitals. It is a fact that, in almost all hospitals of Sri Lanka, an assistant or a nurse, among other assigned health care duties, are responsible for monitoring the saline supplied for each patient. Unfortunately, there are some critical situations, i.e., patient's blood refluxing back into the saline tubing system, patients had to experience because of the observers' mistake due to their busy schedules. Nonetheless, the traditional method of supplying saline is also proven not accurate because the saline drop rate for a patient has been adjusted by looking at the drops falling speed in the drip chamber. The proposed system facilitates a sophisticated method of controlling saline drop rate by monitoring the saline system remotely by using IoT.