Development of a syringe label reader for the neurocritical care unit
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Short Description
In intensive care units, patients are medicated using automated syringe pumps as well as single-use syringes. Whereas the syringe pumps only provide information on the administered drugs through a proprietary interface, the information from the single-use syringes has to be written down manually. To make both information sources available on a central data collector, they have to be again manually copied from the labels on the syringes. This is laborious and error-prone and complicates the already complex workflow of the intensive care staff. A more elaborated solution would greatly reduce this workload and thus improve the treatment of the patients.
Within this project, you will built such a system, to quickly and robustly scan the labels and provide the required medication information through an open interface to the central data collector. This involves the following milestones:
- Exploration and implementation of the best way to scan the labels (e.g. using a Raspberry Pi)
- Construction of a mount suiting the various syringe shapes
- Realization of an interface to the Linux-based data collector
During the project you will get insights into intensive care, image processing and interface design. A successful implement of the system will improve patient care by reducing the workload on the intensive care staff.
Status: Available
- Looking for 1-2 Semester students
- Supervisors: David J. Mack
Character
- 30% Programming
- 30% Image and Video Processing
- 30% Hardware
Prerequisites
- Linux skills
- Creativity
