Sistema para la detección clínica y control de ictericia en recién nacidos y adultos mayores a través de un método transcutáneo no invasivo

Abstract

The device for the detection of jaundice in neonates and older adults with IoT has made it possible to effectively detect the level of bilirubin in patients through a non-invasive transcutaneous method. With what helps patients not suffer pain when undergoing invasive tests and is performed with a greater degree of efficiency, the device was developed with an RGB light sensor that allows capturing the characteristic yellow skin color of people who suffer from this type of disease. The device consists of three fundamental stages: the first is data acquisition using an RGB color sensor that was programmed with an algorithm based on the color spectrum. Once the bilirubin level of the patient's skin is acquired, the value is processed by the ESP8266 chip. The acquired values go to the second stage, which is data management with a database hosted on a Google Cloud server. The bilirubin value is sent through Get/Post commands typical of the PHP language and are saved in the system. data manager. Finally, a web interface was designed where the bilirubin value is displayed, managed in a clinical history, and reports are made. The website was developed with the Angular framework as frontend and NodeJS as backend, allowing the user to have better fluidity when managing patient data. The implementation of the bilirubin detection system allowed to improve the management and detection process of this morbidity at the same time the device is accessible, fast, and easy to use for any health professional, using IOT technologies allowed this process to be automatically, and the health professional saves all the data in the clinical history, in turn reducing the time and pain generated by other bilirubin detection tests. The tests were carried out in several health centers obtaining beneficial results for patients and health establishments. Based on the tests carried out on 80 patients, an efficiency of the device of 94.90% was obtained, in comparison with the blood test.