In order to improve the control rate of risk factors of chronic disease, it is developed a status control method of risk factor and its mobile monitor. The monitor uses 32 bit RISC microprocessor of S3C2410X as a controller based on ARM920T core, and MC35i cellular engine GSM/GPRS supported by SIEMENS as the communication unit. The proving tests show that the physical activity, diet, smoking and alcohol of the controlled people can be controlled using the status control method, and the monitor plays a key role in the method. The conclusion is that status control method and mobile monitor can become an alternation method and technology for the risk factor control of chronic disease.
Chronic Disease ; prevention & control ; Equipment Design ; Humans ; Monitoring, Physiologic ; instrumentation ; methods ; Risk Factors

The improper selection, management or use of medical devices may lead to a disproportionate rise in the cost of healthcare, which has concerned many countries. Some perspectives of management in the use of medical device have been widely discussed in 1st global forum on medical devices held by the World Health Organization on Thailand in 2010. This paper presents some main perspectives about this.
Equipment Safety ; Equipment and Supplies ; Quality Control

In recent years, more and more new medical devices appears, among them there are many measurement instruments related to consistency and stability of value, and safety to device. Presently China is facing the health policy reforms and medical quantity management system establishment. The primary duty of the clinical engineering is to ensure security and validity of medical devices, and preventing maintenance included of measurement and safety is important measure for the duty. The paper overviews the status in medical metrology and challenge for health policy reform in China, and gives some suggestions to resolve medical metrology.
Biomedical Engineering ; statistics & numerical data ; Biometry ; China

The methods for evaluating left ventricular diastolic function completely and simply are lacking in our country at present. To solve this problem, we presents in this paper a novel method, which is developed according to certain algorithms and mathematic models and is carried out by a MATLAB program. This method mainly obtains dP/dt loops, and calculates four important indices, including left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP), Maximal decrease in velocity of left ventricular pressure (--(dP/dt)max), Time constant of ventricular isovolumic relaxation (tau) and Chamber stiffness (Kd), according to the changes of left ventricular pressure. The results obtained from the experiment of isolated rat hearts during ischemia/reperfusion have demonstrated the usefulness and validity of this method. Therefore, with the use of tau and Kd as indicators, this is a sensitive and effective method for evaluating the left ventricular diastolic function, and it can be applied to early detection of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction.
Algorithms ; Animals ; Blood Pressure ; Diastole ; Humans ; In Vitro Techniques ; Male ; Models, Cardiovascular ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Reperfusion Injury ; physiopathology ; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left ; diagnosis ; physiopathology ; Ventricular Function, Left ; physiology

The methods for measurement of blood flow contain dilution, electro-magnetism, nuclear magnetic resonance, Doppler etc. The dilution, which includes heat dilution, 131Xe, etc., can not display the moving blood flow in real-time. The expenses of nuclear magnetic resonance expenses are very high. Electromagnetism must be used in the surgical operation. And ultrasound Doppler can not record other parameters of hemodynamics synchronously. This paper brings up a kind of blood flow measuring method with simple operating rules, dependable performance, and low cost to meet the needs in hemodynamic studies. The differential pressure between stay and fluxion points of the tube is produced in proportion to the square of velocity while fluid flows through the tube. We not only measure blood pressure or transfer drug using the detention catheter with double chamber, but also detect the differential pressure related within blood flow. The result of detecting cerebral blood flow (CBF) in clinical setting shows this method can record the diagram of dynamic blood flow and is a valid was of detecting blood flow for hemodynamic studies.
Blood Flow Velocity ; Cerebrovascular Circulation ; physiology ; Equipment Design ; Hemorheology ; instrumentation ; methods ; Humans ; Middle Aged ; Monitoring, Intraoperative